SSUSA Job #249: Senior Linux Engineer/Architect

Job Description

Position Summary: Responsible for creating, communicating, ensuring adherence and supporting the firm’s enterprise-wide UNIX platform technology architecture design, principals, guidelines and solutions. Responsible for advancing IT infrastructure architecture in support of the company's business and IT strategy, and developing roadmaps and blueprints to ensure architecture goals are met. Collaborates and supports the Infrastructure staff and CISO during system design, development and implementation phases, providing advice, interpretation, and review of Linux platform architecture and design principles. Focuses on overall project technical and architecture design, quality of solution, knowledge transfer to other areas, and mentoring the project technical team members. Conducts research and understands Linux platform industry trends with regards to technology, and can understand and evaluate the use of automated tools and utilities and how they relate in support of company's overall enterprise architecture

Principle Responsibilities: Responsible Enables our client to implement the most optimal and effective, business solutions

Will be responsible for managing a technical staff.
Maintains understanding of existing applications and technology solutions for leveraging the reuse of services and for the consolidation of services.
Identifies and researches opportunities for converging diverse solutions to a single architecture.
Develops and documents architecture solutions, including designs, guidelines and architecture-specific standards for enterprise-wide implementation.
Leads and enables collaboration across technology specialties – ensures that ADM, Infrastructure, Information Security and Architecture are all working together
Obtains concurrence and agreement on architecture solutions from, as applicable: Applications Development, Infrastructure, CISO, Internal Audit, and Product Management.
Supports adherence to relevant ADM/CMMI, ITIL, internal audit, and risk-management standards. Architects the group’s security policies to ensure compliance with relevant departmental, company-wide, and industry-mandated policies and directives.
Maintains understanding of emerging architecture concepts and methods and associated technology trends.
Conducts presentations and education on Architecture’s concepts and solutions to appropriate areas of the company.
Participates in the design, specification, and implementation of business and technology projects, assuring and resolving adherence to enterprise-wide solutions.
Provides guidance and leadership for technology standardization process • Works across IT to identify opportunities for reusing technology
Conceptualize and design next generation Linux Operating Platform, inclusive Application Integration and Porting from Unix, Lifecycle Management and Operations.
Develop Linux Operating Platform roadmap. Analyze and recommend emerging Linux technologies that can provide benefit while reducing risk.

Provide Linux Platform architecture guidance, research technical issues; publish standards, best practices, white papers and solutions. Conduct proof-of-concept exercises to validate concepts and assumptions. Act as the Linux Platform “subject matter expert” by providing technical leadership across all IT discipline.

Experience (Mandatory) Minimum of 9 years experience in Linux platform.

Must include storage and network integration
In depth knowledge of the complete RedHat Linux technology stack.
In depth knowledge of hypervisor platforms and their management capabilities (ESX, Xen, XenServer, KVM, Hyper-V).
In depth knowledge of storage and network virtualization technologies, capabilities, trends and the automated interaction with the physical infrastructure (EMC, NetApp, HP, Cisco).
In-depth experience architecting and implementing automated Linux Lifecycle processes, including provisioning, application and patch management, monitoring and alerting, capacity monitoring and planning
In-depth kernel-level experience with the ability to fine tune Linux Operating platforms for specific workloads, such as relational databases, middleware, low-latency solution stack

Experience Preferred:

Experience with Business Continuity and Disaster Recover design, planning and implementation for Linux Operating Platforms
Experience with IBM Mainframe platforms including LPAR, IFL, zVM & zLinux
Experience with IBM P-Series platforms including LPAR, dynamic LPAR, Micro-Partitioning, Virtual I/O Server and Capacity on Demand
Experience with MS Windows (server and desktop), Solaris, Linux (RHEL & SLES), AIX Operating platforms
Experience with Web technologies including web services architectures and security
Experience with RDBMS technologies including Oracle RAC, Sybase, MS-SQL, DB2
Experience with 10G technologies and I/O Virtualization
Experience overhauling legacy applications to work with modern technologies •

Knowledge Skills:

Maintains current knowledge of marketplace changes, technology changes, and client businesses pertinent to server, storage and network virtualization and cloud computing
Possesses a comprehensive knowledge of the Process Architecture
Possesses a detailed understanding of Domain/Area/Team applications and their development throughout all phases of the lifecycle
Possesses in-depth knowledge of the business units that the Domain supports
Exemplifies leadership characteristics in support of corporate objectives
Demonstrates proficiencies in business case development, program management, issue resolution, and communication
Excellent analytical problem solving skills with a methodical approach to problem resolution across large scale distributed platforms
Strong knowledge of multi-tiered application environments, including their design, implementation and capacity/scaling challenges
Strong knowledge related to public/private/hybrid cloud solutions and market trends, PaaS, SaaS, storage and network optimization

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Job Location
NYC

Position Type
Permanent

Salary Range
TBD