System Administrator – Unix-Linux Operations (Hybrid)

We Offer

• To work with some of the best professionals in the business - for a firm that values individual intellect as much as teamwork
• An environment which is leveraging technology to its highest potential
• Flexible working arrangements
• Enriching challenges that provide opportunity for constant learning and advancement
• State-of-the-art offices that are designed to maximize collaboration

Team Profile

Enterprise Technology & Services (ETS) delivers shared technology services for the Firm supporting all business applications and end users. ETS provides capabilities for all stages of the Firm’s software development lifecycle, enabling productive coding, functional and integration testing, application releases, and ongoing monitoring and support for over 3,000 production applications.

ETS also delivers all workplace technologies (desktop, mobile, voice, video, productivity, intranet/internet) in integrated configurations that boost the personal productivity of our employees. Application and end user services are delivered on a scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure composed of seamlessly integrated datacenter, network, compute, cloud, storage, and database services.

Position Description

The Unix Operations team is responsible for implementing and managing the Linux infrastructure for Morgan Stanley. The group is involved in evaluation, certification, integration, and maintenance of various products, including hardware, Operating Systems, such as Red Hat Linux and Solaris, system services (DNS, DHCP, NTP, syslog, etc.), file systems (NFS, AFS, Hadoop and various cluster file systems), High Availability, Virtualization technologies and a variety of in- house developed tools.

We interact with a high number of customers from numerous business units to generate improvements that ensure the smooth operation of the plant without being hard to manage. We also liaise with engineering groups to set direction for the many disciplines thatare part of our day-to-day service portfolio (storage, core infrastructure services and special projects) and create different solutions for the low-level components that makes our infrastructure tick.

We interact with many customers from numerous business units as a mechanism to generate improvements to be able to 'run the bank' more efficiently and effectively.

The role is critical to our day-to-day incident management function with primary responsibilities for:

• Collaborate with engineering teams to test and certify new hardware & software products
• Working with other infrastructure teams including networking, database administration and hosted solution teams for outage resolution, as well as customers aligned with the business users of our plant to determine scope, impact, and appropriate resolution path
• Carry out proactive health & hygiene tasks to maintain operational stability and compliance for risk & control programs to ensure the production environment is not put at risk
• Occasional weekend project work responsibilities to on-board new UNIX assets for growth or large programs such as new datacenter build outs
• Diagnosis and resolution of immediate production impacting issues in the compute and storage plant

Required Skills

• Available for on-call (1 week out of every 4-6 weeks), rotated weekly within the team, and become a point person for any production issues.
• Knowledge of various enterprise server hardware models [blades, rackmount, standalone] networking, routers and switches.
• Good understanding and workings of configuration management tools, Redhat Satellite servers, Quattor, Puppet, Chef etc.
• 5 to 7 years of experience in a similar role.
• Excellent communication and written skills. Being able to explain technical problem to non-technical audience.
• Strong knowledge and experience of various services i.e. DNS, DHCP, NTP, Kerberos, SSHD, PXE, SFTP, HTTPD, Docker etc.
• Must have strong knowledge and experience with Linux, preferably Redhat, and/or any other Linux distributions.
• Good knowledge and understanding of Clustering, Virtualization, NAS, NFS and SAN
• Must be able to read, understand and write intermediate to complex scripts using KSH, Bash, Perl, Python etc.
• Ability to work in a global distributed team.

Nice To Have

• Experience working in a DevOps environment.
• Experience with analyzing and diagnosing kernel carsh/core dumps, network packet captures and identifying the root cause of problem
• Experience with trouble shooting incidents involving compute resources, network problems, remote storage related problems [SAN, NAS] etc.
• Knowledge and experience with various server hardware models and vendors i.e. IBM, Dell, HP etc.
• Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and tune the system parameters to provide more throughput.
• Sound knowledge of networking, TCP/IP, Layer 2/3 network design, firewall, switches and routers etc.
• Good understanding and knowledge of Load Balancing, High Availability and BC

About Us

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm and a market leader in investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. At Morgan Stanley Montreal, we are shaping the future of our global business and contributing to our local community. Our team works across numerous areas.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.

All our positions are located in Montreal, Quebec. We offer a hybrid work environment, combining remote work and attendance in the office.

Knowledge of French and English is required.

Build a career with impact. Visit morganstanley.com for more information.

Posting Date

Jul 3, 2023

Primary Location

Americas-Canada-Quebec-Montreal

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree

Job

Production Management and Operational Support

Employment Type

Full Time

Job Level

Associate