System Engineer/3rd Line Support (Unix)

For one of our clients - a major international bank headquartered in Zurich - we are looking for an experienced SYSTEM ENGINEER/3RD LINE SUPPORT. The team supports the business in calculating and reporting regulatory-significant risk metrics across the full firm (enterprise wide risk).

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Evaluating, planning and integrating technical infrastructure solutions
- Providing a secure infrastructure environment, production stability and performance
- Analyzing errors in systems and defining corrective measures
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to work towards global IT solutions
- Providing application maintenance and Level 3 support of the platform
- Assisting users with problems arising from the mathematical tools they are using (Matlab, SAS, R, Stata)

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

- in-depth experience of UNIX (preferably Solaris) - both as a developer and with knowledge of system administration.
- ability to develop and debug scripts in KSH, PERL plus good knowledge of UNIX packaging methods (eg Solaris, RPM).
- several years of experience of Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL - plus tools such as Toad
- several years of experience of different UNIX and Windows Scripting languages - with emphasis on KSH, Perl, Python, Powershell, BAT files, VBScript.
- good experience of Windows Server 2008 - both as a developer and with knowledge of system administration
- Active Directory and local/group/domain policy implementation
- filesystem permissioning
- Citrix and Remote Desktop
- knowledge of batch scheduling and automation tools - eg JCS (preferred), Autosys
- experience with mathematical tools like Matlab, SAS, R, Stata
- experience with Subversion and SSH
- fluent in English written and spoken