System Administrator recruitment

Job ID: 20268

Position Description:
SunGard's asset management solutions help institutional investors, hedge funds, private equity firms, fund administrators and securities transfer agents improve both investment decision-making and operational efficiency, while managing risk and increasing transparency. SunGard's solutions support every stage of the investment process, from research and portfolio management, to valuation, risk management, compliance, investment accounting, transfer agency and client reporting.
SunGard is looking for an experienced systems administrator to join the team responsible for the infrastructure and day to day operations for the FastVal and APT ASP solutions and production systems.
The successful candidate will be:
* Responding to requests from within the support and development teams of FastVal and APT
* Ensuring the continued stability and security of the environment
* Managing the backup of critical data
* Liaising with vendors and suppliers as required.
* Assisting with the testing and documentation of BCP and ensuring the continued readiness of DR systems
* Working on projects to upgrade and replace infrastructure as required

Position Requirements:
Required Skills:
* Experience of Windows server 2003/8 and RedHat and Debian Linux administration in an enterprise environment
* Exposure to storage area networking, any knowledge of HP EVA storage an advantage
* Experience working with enterprise backup solutions, HP Data Protector experience an advantage
* Experience of VMWare Vsphere 4.1-5, SRM and vCentre
* Knowledge and understanding of monitoring applications such as Nagios, Cacti, Splunk and Ganglia
* Understanding of TCP/IP networking

Desirable skills:
* Knowledge of application and web servers/containers such as JBoss, Apache and TomCat
* Any experience with Cisco firewalls and switches
* Any database admin experience - MySQL and SQL Server 2008
* Scripting in any of Perl, Bash, Powershell
* Knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policies and Citrix environments