Associate, Unix System Administrator

Company Overview

Markit was founded in 2001 as the first independent source of credit derivative pricing and has recently been announced as the fastest growing private company in the UK. Today, our data, valuations and trade processing services are regarded as the market standard in the global financial markets, helping our clients to reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and meet regulatory requirements.

As a private company with privileged relationships with 16 shareholder banks, Markit has unparalleled access to a valuable dataset spanning credit, equities and the broader OTC derivative universe. Our unique relationships with the bank shareholders give us the opportunity to work closely with these leading market makers to develop innovative solutions for the marketplace.

With over 1,300 institutions using our independent services as clients - including investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies and insurance companies - we provide round-the-clock support from our offices in London, New York, Chicago, Toronto, Amsterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney.

Role Summary

Unix/Solaris Admin/Infrastructure specialist to assist with support across development/testing and production environments as well being involved in project based work.

Duties and Accountabilities

Provide day-to-day operations support for operational UNIX based systems, including monitoring, identifying any need for preventive or remedial maintenance throughout the use of diagnostic tools
Investigate, diagnose and resolve system problems using available tools and referring to external suppliers if required
Review and implement security policies to the UNIX
Maintain accurate and up-to-date technical documentation related to UNIX based systems including operational requirement and release management plan, transfer knowledge to colleagues and ensure sufficient documentation is available for tasks to be assigned to first level support
Plan, prepare, test and implement maintenance activities (such as patches and software upgrades) which are required to keep system running at optimized condition
Participate in recovery and contingency exercises and ensure that IT Operations and Support staff can recover systems in accordance with the predefined plans and documentation
Contribution to IT project management tasks, such as technical specifications, evaluation and selection of new products, activity planning and reporting
Contribution to IT projects in the development phase of applications such as analysis, development, testing, maintenance, release, documentation

Business Competencies

Proven experience in supporting, administering and maintaining mission-critical UNIX based systems including problem solving, performance tuning and capacity planning
Excellent knowledge and experience on SUN Solaris 8, 9 & 10
Good knowledge of shell scripting (Korn, PERL)
Good Knowledge of TCP/IP networking and Firewall Technology
Knowledge of client/server architecture, current PC technology, directory services, web services, file-sharing services would be an advantage
Knowledge of relational databases, namely Oracle, would be an advantage
Knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise would be an advantage
Knowledge of SAN/NAS technologies, namely Network Appliance, would be an advantage
Commercial Awareness – Recent experience providing mission critical applications in the Financial sector

Personal Competencies

Strong interpersonal skills, self-motivation and the ability to work in a team are very important

The Contact

Interested applicants should send their CV and a covering letter to careers.europe@markit.com citing "Associate, Unix System Administrator" in the subject line.