Senior Systems Administrator Professional Traders (DPTG DMCC) - DUBAI - UAE SEPTEMBER 2014 LATEST JOBS

Job Details The role includes broad technical solutions for developing, integrating, and maintaining solutions and applications to enable Financial Traders who are trading the world Stock markets live.

The main duties include but not limited to:

• -Perform a variety of work involving planning, installation, configuration, testing, implementation, and management of the systems environment in support of the organization’s IT architecture and business needs.
• -Perform a variety of work involving planning, analysis, design, development, testing, quality assurance, configuration, installation, implementation, integration, maintenance, and/or management of networked systems used for the transmission of information in voice, data, and/or video formats
• -Perform a variety of work involving planning and coordinating the installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of hardware and software systems.
• -Define overall project requirements; plans and coordinates systems design, development, and implementation; oversees support of installed systems and services, and resolves a wide range of technical and management issues.
• -Develop technical standards and procedures for LAN development, implementation, and management.
• -Provide authoritative technical advice and guidance to systems administrators throughout the agency in responding to serious systems threats.
• -Lead efforts to isolate sources of service problems quickly and accurately, identify and implement required corrective actions, and devise solutions to prevent future interruptions
• -Installation, configuration and support of local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and internet connectivity
• -Install and configure the OS and proactively monitor Microsoft Windows based servers
• -Monitor all network switches and servers for availability and performance.
• -Administration of Active Directory including user creation, group policy creation and permissions assignments.
• -Configuration of Checkpoint firewall rules and maintain Checkpoint Appliances.
• -Maintain all current network security appliances.
• -Maintain SAN and connect new clients to it.
• -Assist users with SSL based VPN and two factor authentication.
• -Document changes and procedures
• -Project Work involving Infrastructure and system related components
• -Technical mentoring and knowledge development
• -Design and support a computing environment, /Software Configuration, Management Tools, License, Database. Various activities includes proactive monitoring, preventive maintenance, system upgrade, config and perform automation and enhancements.
• -Apply advanced troubleshooting to the system problems and perform incident management.
• -Drive continuous improvement efforts to meet systems health goals
• -IT liaison to key customers and key stakeholders, investigate solutions, evaluate available technologies and solutions in accordance to the established standards. Interacts and leveraging IT organization partners, system architects, suppliers, external partners.

The ideal candidate should exhibit the following behavioral traits:

-Be a great team player, willing to partner and work with a diverse worldwide team.

-Be a fast learner with initiative is required.

-Be willing to work with global IT peers to drive effective and consistent computing solutions.

Requirements Qualifications You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates. Minimum Qualifications: -Bachelor of Science degree or a Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering. -3 or more years of experience with Networking knowledge, VPN technology and encryption technology. For example: digital certificates, PKI. Juniper SA or Cisco ASA. -Experience on any one or more of these systems: SAN Storage, Server Blade, SQL, SharePoint, C2ISR Video Data, Network Performance Software, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Unix / Linux Router, Switch, Firewall and Network: configuration, management and optimization Storage: RAID configuration and optimization Distributed computing clusters Problem solving and critical thinking skills