Linux System Administrator

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Location United States, Chicago

Employment type permanent

Updated 27th Jun 2012

Company Cognitive Capital, LLC

Contact Jennifer Hartig

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SUMMARY

Cognitive Capital, LLC seeks a systems administrator to help develop its state-of-the-art, real-time automated trading system. In addition to possessing excellent analytical and technical skills, the successful candidate will be a creative problem solver, a clear communicator, and a strong team player.

ABOUT COGNITIVE CAPITAL

Cognitive Capital, LLC is a proprietary trading firm based in Chicago that adds value to capital markets by providing liquidity through its automated trading technology. Cognitive Capital fosters an ethical, data-driven, and collaborative culture that focuses on building robust, scalable systems.

REQUIRED SKILLS

· Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing purchase justifications, making presentations to an internal audience, and interacting positively with developers, and management.

· Ability to solve problems quickly and automate processes.

· Comfortable with most aspects of operating system administration; for example, configuration of mail systems, system installation and configuration, printer systems, fundamentals of security, installing third-party software.

· Understands a UNIX-based operating system; understands paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device drivers do, filesystem concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions).

· Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts; can configure NFS and NIS, NT domains; can use nslookup or dig to check information in the DNS; understands routing concepts such as HSRP, RIP.

· Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (Perl, shell).

· Ability to do minimal debugging and modification of C programs.

· Familiarity with Windows Server, including Active Directory.

REQUIRED BACKGROUND

· A minimum of three years of system administration experience; Redhat Linux preferred.

DESIRABLE BACKGROUND AND SKILLS

· A degree in computer science or a related field.

· Programming background in any applicable language.

· Familiarity with SAN, iSCSI and other network based storage solutions.

· Experience with the following applications, or tools: Symantec BackupExec, EMC Celerra NX4, Kickstart, CFEngine, OpenNMS.

· Knowledge of Financial Markets.

RESPONSIBILITIES

· Helps design, and implement complex local and wide-area networks of machines.

· Provides technical assistance, and coverage to a small, complex site & wide area network.

· Works under general direction from development, and IT team members.

· Establishes/recommends policies on system use and services.

APPLY

Please submit your resumetojennifer.hartig@cogcap.comand note the position you areapplying for in the subject of your email.

Cognitive Capital, LLC is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination including race, creed, color, age, sex, religion or national origin.