Job opening - Unix-Linux Team Lead at OTC Markets (Brooklyn, NY)

OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM) operates the world's largest OTC marketplace for equity securities.  Our OTC Link trading system delivers price transparency in over 10,000 securities and enables direct interaction between broker-dealers that provide liquidity and execution services.  We organize the marketplace by categorizing the wide spectrum of OTC-traded companies into three tiers:  OTCQX - The Intelligent Marketplace for the Best OTC Companies; OTCQB - The Venture Marketplace; and OTC Pink - The Open Marketplace.  Our information-driven platform makes it easy for investors to trade at the best price through the broker of their choice and empowers companies to build the best markets for their investors.  To learn more about our Open, Transparent, and Connected marketplace, visit www.otcmarkets.com.

OTC Markets Group - IT Infrastructure is looking for a UNIX/Linux Team Lead with a significant system engineering experience, ! who will be responsible for our system and network operations. Candidates for this role should have proven leadership and mentoring experiences. The ideal candidate has not only a strong UNIX/Linux technical background, but is also a subject matter expert in at least one UNIX/Linux domain of knowledge. It is necessary the candidate demonstrates superior communication skills and an ability to think through a project from start to finish. Overall, this position will offer the successful candidate a great deal of autonomy as well as responsibility.

The selected candidate will be principally responsible for all day-to-day activities in connection with production systems:

• Manage 24x7 Operations team and systems


• Responsible for system monitoring, alerting, and problem resolution


• Communicates and implements the projected system changes, ensuring the stability of the eco-system and compliance with industry best prac! tices


• Decrease down time through operational imp! rovements of our tools and processes


• Ensure baseline standardization for middleware, OS, and hardware


• Consistently assess and improve system security


• Oversee and coordinate business applications deployment


• Implement, document, and manage the Business Continuity Plan


• Perform capacity analysis, relief sizing, and timing for the growth of our computing platform


• Collaborate with application development team and business line managers on roadmap, automation, and rollout process improvement across multiple environments


• Interacts with customers and developers to troubleshoot 3rd level problems


• Mentor and train UNIX/Linux system administrators

Soft Skill Requirements:

• Given our highly dynamic environment, excellent interpersonal and communication skills as well as an ability to quickly learn are a MUST


• Customer-! facing with excellent social skills


• Willingness and ability to teach and train others


• Meticulous and careful in their work


• Self-motivated to take full ownership of issues resolution and projects


• Must work well under sustained pressure


• Must be able to sustain a high rate of workflow and work on multiple projects

Experience level Requirements:

• B.S degree or more in Computer Science, Systems and/or appropriate certifications


• At least one significant managerial experience


• A minimum of 7 years of UNIX/Linux System administration, UNIX/Linux system engineering, or 3rd level UNIX/Linux support engineer


• Must have previously worked in a financial environment; knowledge of capital markets is highly desirable


• Understanding of the operations of an electronic trading venue is a huge plus


• Strong anal! ytical skills


• Should not only know the technology, but mu! st be able to articulate such knowledge


• Must have exposure to the project management role in an enterprise environment

Technical Skills:

• Advanced understanding of UNIX Operating Systems (Solaris-10 and Linux: a MUST)


• Advanced knowledge of best practices pertaining to UNIX distributed systems in enterprise-class environments


• Broad Knowledge of Sun hardware and another major hardware vendors (HP, Dell, etc)


• Serious knowledge of tools which assist in understanding UNIX systems behavior


• Knowledge of how to modify kernel and device drivers


• Knowledge of NIS, NFS, DNS, Automounter, NTP, and SMTP


• Demonstrated ability with Shell programming


• Best practices of DevOps movement as well as knowledge of automation tools like Chef or Puppet are a huge plus

A good understanding in the following technolo! gies is a plus:

• Veritas Cluster or other clustering solution


• EMC product line and Fiber Channel technology


• Broad line of Cisco network devices including different models of switches, routers, firewalls, and VPN


• OLTP database systems


• F5 or other Global and Local load balancers


• TIBCO Rendez-Vous


• FIX protocol


• VMWare or Xen Virtualization technology

Candidates submitting their resume for this position MUST be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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