System Engineer (Windows/Linux)

Cooper Fitch

Doha, Qatar

Ref: GP932-303

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Title: System Engineer (Windows/Linux)
Industry: Investment & asset management
Location: Qatar
Salary: $ Competitive
Client: A major centre for international finance and investment management

Role:

Configures, installs, tests, maintains, tunes, documents, and supports systems hardware and software in the development, testing and production environments. Manages relationships with Windows and Linux operating system vendors and service providers. Systems administration includes monitoring and reporting system performance, monitoring and managing system utilization, setting up users profiles, and developing specialized systems hardware and software programs in the development, testing and production environments.

Responsibilities:

• Plans for and implements operating systems changes or upgrades.
• Plans for operating systems hardware and software functions.
• Administers operating system infrastructure hardware, software and facilities.
• Ensures that all operating system hardware and software is operating properly and is on current versions.
• Troubleshoots operating systems and service related problems.
• Initiates, logs, and follows-up on calls to third party vendors to ensure successful resolution of any operating system problems.
• Monitors and provides reports on operating system performance.
• Forecasts future operating system utilization and hardware requirements.
• Maintains operating system documentation.
• Recommends, enforces, and documents technical service level standards for operating systems
• Identifies issues with non-standard software and raises them to senior management level
• Assist Applications Administrator in day-to-day operations
• Manages installation, configuration, and ongoing maintenance for all server based software (Exchange, ISA, IIS, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers (networking and storage).
• Familiarity with databases and web programming languages and automation.
• Strong working knowledge of storage environments (SAN, NAS)
• Software experience with Apache, PHP, sendmail, postfix, LDAP, Radius, bind, clustering.
• Automation via scripting (Perl, Python, Shell)
• File Replication, File System Tuning, Upgrading and Configuring.
• Documents workstation and software configuration as it applies to server software integration.
• Documents and communicates all changes and installations to change management and Help Desk.
• Manages testing of servers operating systems software and server based software prior to deployment.
• Deploy servers operating systems software and server based software to production environment.
• Justifies new hardware requirements based on specifications from Applications Administrator
• Assists in installing security patches on servers.
• Participates in and helps maintain business continuity and disaster recovery departmental plans.
• Experience in Information Assurance & System Security Engineering including access control, authorization, Identification and Authentication, Public Key Infrastructure, Network, and Enterprise Security Architecture
• Experience in applying security risk assessment methodology to systems development, including threat model development, vulnerability assessments, and resulting security risk analysis.
• Responsible for Information Technology System and Operating System hardening as well as associated policy/documentation.
• Coordinate incident response and remediation activities, and launch and track investigations to resolution.
• Provide security tools, policies, and technologies around operating systems, applications systems and code and data.

Requirements

Skills & Experience:

• 3‐5 years’ experience as a Linux/Windows system administrator.
• Solaris, SuSE and other Linux distributions experience is required plus Windows 2000/2003.
• Skilled in training, instruction, setting the work pace, and possibly evaluating performance.
• Interpret and/or discuss information with others, which involves terminology or concepts not familiar to many people; regularly provide advice and recommend actions involving rather complex issues. May resolve problems within established practices.
• Business and Technical English Fluency

Education / Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems.
• MCSE and Red Hat Certifications preferred.

If you are interested in this position, please apply now online. All applications are kept in strict confidence.

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.

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