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Senior Systems Administrator

Kershner Trading is a proprietary trading firm based in Austin, TX.

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Senior Systems Administrator

Job Description:

Kershner Trading Group is a leading proprietary trading and technology firm, headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in midtown Manhattan, NY, Chicago, IL and London. We provide capital and infrastructure to in-house quantitative and discretionary traders. Beside the hardware and networking infrastructure, our infrastructure includes a couple of different trading platform unique to KTG. You will collaborate with the development team and end users to help support these tools in a fast paced environment.

 

Responsible for the technical design, planning, implementation, and the highest level of performance tuning and recovery procedures for mission critical systems. Serves as a technical expert around system administration for operating systems. This position needs to specialize in Sever, Storage, and virtualization technologies.

The Senior Systems Administrator role will be responsible for core infrastructure design and implementation using industry best practices in both core datacenters and remote offices and reports to the Director of Operations.

Principal duties will include but not limited to:

  • User Support - Level 2 end user support for all systems, and level 1 when the primary Level 1 support team is busy or not available.
  • Corporate Software support - Perform support and maintenance of domain applications and services such as WSUS, AD, Office365, SMTP, PRTG Monitoring, Symantec antivirus, DNS, Hpyer-V
  • Physical equipment - Perform maintenance, monitoring, and upgrades of physical hardware such as SAN, NAS, Servers, UPS. Responsible for administration, deployment, and optimization of 200 servers and 75 workstations
  • Backups - Managing, monitoring, and testing corporate backups
  • Facilities – Manage changing printer cartridges, troubleshooting fax machine/printer problems, managing facilities upgrades or problems (A/C, cable, PA system, etc….).
  • Forward planning - Plans for necessary hardware or software upgrades to support system growth.
  • Automation - Automate process using general scripting practices.

 

Required Experience: 4 Years experience in Microsoft/Linux administration and support role

Preferred: 2 Years experience working with Cisco and Arista devices
 

We are seeking an individual with the following qualifications:

  • Minimum of 4 years experience doing system administration work
  • Ability to work well and troubleshoot quickly in a fast-paced, time-critical environment
  • Proficient with Windows 10/2012/2016/2019 servers and Ubuntu Linux
  • Working knowledge of a LAN, WAN, TCPIP, and client/server systems
  • Experience deploying and managing Cisco Networks would be helpful
  • You are someone who learns quickly and takes ownership of your personal development
  • Effective Troubleshooting Skills: You demonstrate strong root cause analysis skills, through effective troubleshooting skills and you can quickly identify problems and solutions
  • Efficient in scripting technologies
  • Able to work flexible Hours. Provide after-hours support for Infrastructure related emergencies as well occasional weekend maintenance

Primary work hours will be 7:00 - 4:00 CST and required to physically be in the office.

Physical demands related to the position include: Lifting and moving PCs, Monitors, Printers, UPS, other computer-related equipment.

KTG is a member NASD and SIPC.

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