[nylug-jobs] [nylug-job] TSYS Prepaid seeks Linux System Administrator

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* JobID: #486
* Submitted On: 2006-8-30 13:06:27

* Company: TSYS Prepaid
* Contact: David King,
* Email:  dking at tsys.com
* Url: http://www.tsysprepaid.com
* Phone: Not Specified
* Fax: Not Specified

* Title: Linux System Administrator

* Salary: Not Specified

* Description: TSYS Prepaid, a wholly owned subsidiary of TSYS (NYSE:
  TSS), is a leading provider of prepaid card solutions that utilize the
  Visa, MasterCard, EFT and ATM networks. These solutions are powered by
  a flexible proprietary processing platform that is specifically
  designed for the prepaid market.

  TSYS Prepaid's solutions have been utilized by Fortune 500 companies,
  small- and medium-size enterprises and leading financial institutions,
  and have proven to be highly effective for numerous applications,
  including healthcare administration, payroll processing, claims
  processing, gift cards, corporate incentives, consumer promotions,
  teen payments and unbanked solutions.

  TSYS Prepaid offers expert solution deployment services, from
  facilitating sponsoring bank and payment network approvals to
  transaction processing and program management. TSYS Prepaid provides
  turnkey solutions complete with online, real-time administration and
  reporting and other unique system features that are vital to the
  prepaid market.

  TSYS Prepaid is headquartered in New York City.

  Job Overview:
  The Linux System Administrator supports the LINUX software systems
  platforms. The primary objective of this position is to assure
  reliable and predictable performance of all mission critical systems
  in support of corporate banking and finance operations. The corporate
  computing resources include high reliability, networked, database
  servers in a distributed LINUX environment utilizing storage available
  through locally attached and network available disk storage.


  Technical Skills and Experience:
  Our production systems have many of the same characteristics and
  constraints as embedded Linux systems. For this environment, the
  successful applicant will have solid scripting experience.


  The environment relies on shell scripting, perl, Ruby, and Python. The
  candidate must be familiar with regular expressions, calling common
  Linux/Unix utilities, and using libraries of functionality. From a
  source and version control perspective, the candidate should have
  experience in either command line cvs or subversion. Experience
  designing and implementing embedded Linux solutions is a major plus.

  The environment relies heavily on open sourced projects and tools such
  as Linux (PPC and x86), Apache, Jakarta/Tomcat, JBoss, Nagios, and
  others. Experience with Java and reading Log4J logs is a definite
  plus. This person should also be familiar with SQL and SQL performance
  to be able to provide feedback to the Development and DBA groups. DB2
  is the backend database.

  Required networking skills include a solid grasp of IP networking from
  the physical layer through the network layer as well as the main
  concepts associated with ICMP, TCP, and UDP and some of the standard
  protocols that are built upon those fundamentals. The successful
  applicant will have a solid understanding of Linux networking
  including iptables firewalling, routing, and kernel parameter setting
  and tuning.

  Working experience with Cisco networking equipment (routers, switches,
  and firewalls) is assumed. Experience with provisioning and supporting
  WAN circuits is necessary. Experience with establishing, debugging,
  documenting and supporting IPSEC VPNs is required.

  The technical environment is composed of approximately 350 PPC and x86
  blade servers at four datacenters. We also support some Windows
  Terminal Servers, their associated utilities and applications, and
  users that connect to the terminal servers via remote desktop clients.

  The Production and UAT environments are 24X7X365 and good
  communications skills and documentation skills are vital for this job.
  We like detailed documentation.

  Typical Duties:
  Typical duties of a system admin in our environment include:
  o Design, configure and tune high availability systems
  o Identify and resolve capacity, contention, and resource deficiencies
    to support corporate processing requirements.
  o Provide second/third level Linux software support to the Linux
    developer groups during normal working hours.
  o Investigate and determine the requirements for all new and
    replacement Linux hosts
  o Maintain the patch levels of all OS and application patches on all
    systems.
  o Document and maintain the accuracy of existing documentation for the
    backoffice, QA, UAT, and production systems.
  o Provide advice and guidance to the development community early in
    the development cycle to design supportability into new and/or
    revised applications
  o Work with Project Management to define the necessary Systems tasks
    associated with bringing new clients onto our systems.
  o Roll out new applications and upgrades developed by the internal
    development organizations.
  o Support third party applications products used in support of
    corporate mission critical systems.

* Required Skills: At least 3 plus years working with Linux based
  systems.

* Location:

     TSYS Prepaid
     535 5th Avenue 3rd Floor
     New York City, NY 10017

* Furthermore:
  Must be able to work in the US as we are not doing sponsorships at
  this time.

  Please email resumes to dking at tsys.com or apply on line at tsys.com
  and click on the careers section. You can search for jobs in NYC.