Wednesday, January 18, 2012

[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 739

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1.

System's Support Engineer - Windows Infrastructure  - Investment Man

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:07 pm (PST)



Please feel free to refer this position to your associates – Referrals
appreciated.

Position Title – WRCGSSE012012

System's Support Engineer – Windows Infrastructure – Investment
Management - Boston, MA Area – Excellent Package

Excellent Base + Bonus + Ret + Comprehensive Benefits - Excellent total
package

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Company

Mid-Sized, successful, and growing Boston based global investment management
company – Great Company – Lots of Upside – Excellent Compensation Package –
Bonus – Retirement – Comprehensive Benefits

Looking for the Best of the Best.

Position Summary:

Client is looking for a Systems Support Engineer to join the IT
Infrastructure systems engineering team. The team is responsible for the
design, maintenance, security, recovery and support of their server
infrastructure consisting of over 1000 servers in multiple sites. The
person in this role will contribute to the ongoing development, improvement
and delivery of IT Infrastructure services provided to their business and
development teams as well as ensuring the overall stability and availability
of the logical and physical server environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

· Provide engineering and administrative support to Windows Server
OS, Server Hardware, Active Directory, CIFS file systems and Citrix XenApp
· Prioritize and respond to problems and incidents. Manage the
service ticket queue on a daily basis.
· Incorporate security, monitoring and metering requirements into
the Windows Server architecture. Ensure standardized configurations across
the environment.
· Improve and execute initiatives around OS provisioning and
configuration management
· Evaluate system performance and make recommendations for
improvement
· Participate in both Data Center and after-hours on-call rotations
· Develop, document and follow best practices and SOPs for:

o Monitoring & alerts
o Capacity planning
o Patch management
o Documentation

· Develop jobs and implement patches and configuration changes as
needed.
· Provide technical expertise to developers and business users
around best practices for use of supported products and integration into the
environment.
· Participate in and occasionally manage both individual and team
projects for various initiatives.
· Manage server and component hardware products in a data center
environment.
· Collaborate with team to continuously develop and improve server
and storage strategy
· Prepare reports for management as required
· Represent IT Infrastructure at various IT community and/or
business meetings

Required Skills and Competencies:

· 3-5 years of work experience in a similar environment – See
Environment details below
· Demonstrated high level of competence with analyzing, documenting,
troubleshooting, administering and evaluating: Windows Server, Active
Directory, CIFS file systems, Citrix XenApp. Knowledge and administration of
VMware ESX server and/or RHEL a plus.
· Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding
environment
· Demonstrated understanding and ease with IT operations and
workflow concepts, best practices, and SOPs
· High level of competence in process simplification and automation;
the ability to develop, document and implement new strategies and SOPs for
use within the team
· High level of competence with Windows scripting, both command and
vbscript. Powershell experience a plus.
· Experience managing servers in a Data Center environment.
· Self-direction; experience planning and accomplishing multiple
simultaneous projects and goals
· Strong interpersonal and communication skills; the ability to work
effectively within a collaborative team and with a wide range of
constituencies in a diverse community
· Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
· Knowledge of financial business practices and procedures a plus
· Ability to promote a cooperative work environment
· Ability and willingness to perform occasional work on weekends and
after-hours
· Experience in a 24X7, Mission Critical Financial Services Firm
Preferred

Environment:

· Microsoft Server Operating systems from Windows 2003 to 2008 R2,
predominantly running in a VMware ESX 4.x environment
· VMware vCenter Server and SRM
· Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
· Altiris – ITIL and Business Management Suite
· HP Sitescope, HP Insight Control Environment
· BladeLogic Operations Management
· Active Directory
· NAS, SAN and local attached Storage Architecture
· Industry Standard Intel servers from HP, predominantly c-Class
blades
· Microsoft enterprise applications: e.g. Sharepoint, Exchange and
SQL Server

Contact Information – (Resumes in Word format please)

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB Site –
www.wrightassociates.org

2.

Equity Trading - System Developer - .Net  - Investment Management -

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:07 pm (PST)



Please feel free to refer this position to your associates – Referrals
appreciated.

Position Title – WRCGWALDN012012

Equity Trading – System Developer - .Net – Investment Management - Boston,
MA Area – Excellent Package

Excellent Base + Bonus + Ret + Comprehensive Benefits - Excellent total
package

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Company

Mid-Sized, successful, and growing Boston based global investment management
company – Great Company – Lots of Upside – Excellent Compensation Package –
Bonus – Retirement – Comprehensive Benefits

Looking for the Best of the Best.

Position Summary:

The Research Systems Group provides development and support to various
Investment Divisions in all areas of the investment process, including
research, portfolio construction and optimization, pre and post trade
analytics, trading, middle and back office.

Primary Responsibilities:

· Design, develop, and test multiple .NET applications as part of a
trading systems implementation and integration project.
· Work closely with the project team to understand requirements and
ensure that requirements are satisfied. The team consists of technical,
project management and trading professionals.
· Provide any technical expertise for the trading systems
implementation and integration project.

Required Skills and Competencies:

Mandatory requirements:

· 5 years .NET development experience
· 3-5 yrs development experience in MSFT SQL Server 2005 (2008 a
plus)
· Experience with WCF, WPF, LINQ, XML, and MSMQ a plus
· Understanding of equity trading systems required
· Individual needs previous experience out of a 24X7, Mission
Critical Financial Services Firm
· Undergraduate degree a must

Skills & Characteristics:

· Excellent communication skills – both written and oral
· Excellent interpersonal skills, organizational expertise, and
attention to detail
· Ability to learn new concepts, systems, and software independently
and quickly
· Self-starter, able to work as part of a small team as well as
independently, with minimal supervision
· High energy, positive attitude, professional and mature
· Detail-oriented, able to prioritize work and effectively manage
multiple tasks
· Ability to accurately estimate and meet development deadlines

Contact Information – (Resumes in Word format please)

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB Site –
www.wrightassociates.org

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