Unix Production Control Analyst recruitment

Job ID: 18935

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.
*In line with the Black Economic Empowerment programme, we will only be considering applications from South African citizens*

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Ensuring the well-being of the overall operating environments supporting ad hoc and batch processes related to INVEST ONE as scheduled via one of several scheduling products like SKEmatix, C2O, and CA-7
• Troubleshooting application, communication, and system errors as needed to guarantee application availability
• Working with the Customer Service teams or directly with clients to resolve operational or technical issues
• Testing operational components of application during periodic software and hardware upgrades
• Creating and maintaining shell scripts, procedures and functions
• After sufficient training, periodic assignments assuming on-call support of overnight batch processing and debugging/correcting any issues that may arise
• Demonstrating continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline workflows, and work cooperatively and jointly with internal personnel to provide quality customer service.

Position Requirements:
REQUIREMENTS
• Bachelor's Degree in an IT-related discipline or equivalent of education and experience
• Experience in an UNIX environment, preferably with exposure to financial applications
• Effective administration of UNIX environments, with familiarity in Solaris -TCP/IP, printing, Korn shell scripting, etc.
• Experience with Oracle, VSAM
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Knowledge of scheduling applications (SKEmatix, C2O, CA-7, etc)
• Knowledge of UNIKIX applications

DESIRED EXPERIENCE/SKILLS
• Micro Focus COBOL highly desirable
• Business background highly desirable

*In line with the Black Economic Empowerment programme, we will only be considering applications from South African citizens*