Company: | Galen Technology Solutions, Inc. |
Job Category: | Accounting/ Finance/ Insurance |
Job Title: | Production Support -Sybase, UNIX, Perl, Equities, Fixed Income |
Location: | New York, NY 10017 |
URL: | http://galentechsolutions.com |
Job Description
Galen Technology Solutions, Inc. is a full service technology consulting & search firm based in New York City. Our company provides a diverse offering of professional IT staffing services, project-based IT solutions and IT full time search services to Financial, Insurance, Pharmaceutical, and Manufacturing firms in the New York metropolitan area.
Galen Technology Solutions is currently looking for a candidate with the following experience for one of our clientele:
Job Title: Production Support – Sybase, Unix, Perl, Brokerage
Job Description: Application Support – Sybase, Unix, Equity Derivatives
MUST HAVE:
• Have experience providing production support in a complex enterprise environment
• Basic knowledge of the Unix and Windows platforms
• Good knowledge of Sybase ASE / Transact-SQL
• Good knowledge of Perl and other scripting languages
• Knowledge of capital market/equity environments
• Murex 2000 highly desirable
Position Objectives
We are looking for a specialist to provide primary and secondary support on the New York Equity IT platforms. The candidate would be responsible for monitoring a variety of environments as well as identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving any issues that arise. He/she will interact with developers, users, and others in production support in New York, Paris, and other BNPP locations.
The candidate should be familiar with basic client-server and web-based architectures. He/she should be able to navigate both the Unix and Windows platforms; write basic SQL queries; and develop programs in a scripting language.
He will work from noon to 9pm and will be part of a follow the sun production team involving Paris, NYC and Mumbai.
Working hours :
on site : every working day and every bank holiday except on December 25th and on January 1st
on call : All the monitoring is automated. A robot (Tetracall) calls the on duty person automatically as soon as an alert is raised by a monitoring script.
in addition most of the weekends on site or remotely for release deployments and heavy operations (deal deletion, database maintenance, infrastructure/software migration, DR test, …). The applications in MXFUNDS perimeter are used 23 hours a day, 5 days a week (Asia and US users connect to Paris platform) so weekends are the only slots to operate.
On call duties will be shared between the people in Paris an Mumbai. Nyk could be involve for Bank holiday or weekend
Scope :
MEF (Murex Equity Front)
Murex Prime Brokerage (Hawk)
Murex Commodities Front (CIT)
HFTrader
Position Responsibilities
TRANSITION :
validation and testing (non regression technical tests)
change management
release deployement (in UAT and production environments)
documentation
OPERATION :
event management
incident management (technical incidents and some functional incidents)
problem management
user request management
The follow the sun organization will be based on a 3 sites relay : New York -> Mumbai -> Paris. Tetracall will be switched from Paris to New York at 6pm Paris time (noon New York). Then Tetracall will be switched from New York to Mumbai at 8pm New York time (5:30am or 6:30am Mumbai time). Paris will remain on call for level 2.
Position Requirements and Skills
Excellent troubleshooting and problem-fixing skills
Ability to take initiative and work self-directed
Knowledge of French is a plus
• Have experience providing production support in a complex enterprise environment
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-fixing skills
• Basic knowledge of the Unix and Windows platforms
• Good knowledge of Sybase ASE / Transact-SQL
• Good knowledge of Perl and other scripting languages
• Ability to take initiative and work self-directed
• Knowledge of capital market environments a plus
• Knowledge of French is a plus
Rate: 70 an hour (depending if W2 or C2C)
Duration: 7 months +
New York City
Please contact:
Brian Haggerty
Galen Technology Solutions, Inc.
100 Wall Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10005
973 805 7009
bhaggerty@galentechsolutions.com