IT Administrator at Vector Trading

Responsibilities: 

• Analyze business requirements, conduct planning, and install the company's computer and network infrastructure;
• Design, implement, and support secure network solutions, remote access, and information security;
• Troubleshoot issues and outages;
• Support users, laptops, and mobile devices who are remotely distributed;
• Manage accounts, network rights, and access to systems, databases, drives, VPN servers and clients, and equipment;
• Manage servers, firewalls, switches, and other network devices;
• Upgrade systems with new releases and models;
• Develop expertise to train staff on new technologies;
• Be a technical advisor for the development team;
• Install and configure software, hardware, and networks;
• Ensure security through access controls, backups, VPN servers, and firewalls;
• Monitor performance and maintain systems according to requirements;
• Respond to remote monitoring and management system alerts and notifications;
• Maintain trading systems and provide on-call support during trading hours;
• Keep the internal wiki up to date with technical documentation, manuals, and IT policies;
• Troubleshoot network issues;
• Advise developers regarding network infrastructure;
• Design and enforce network security policies;
• Proactively identify areas for improvement and make constructive suggestions for change.

Requirements:

• BSc/Ba in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline; 
• Solid understanding and experience administering Ubuntu and Linux servers in a production environment;
• Theoretical and working knowledge of TCP/IP networking, DNS, DHCP, IGMP, BGP;
• Work experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, etc;
• Knowledge of VPN environments, including OpenVPN;
• Linux sysadmin skills;
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience operating in a similar role;
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to interact with the team;
• Availability to provide on-call support;
• Strong knowledge of bash script or other script programming language;
• Work experience with routers, firewalls, and switches;
• Willingness and ability to learn and adapt to new technologies;
• Work experience with the setup of servers and network equipment for acquisition, assuring technical requirements for data throughput and processing;
• Be a positive, collaborative, and constructive team player;
• Availability for national and international travel;
• Enthusiastic and willing to learn in a fluid and fast-paced environment;
• Has a passion for technology and wants to make a difference with technology solutions;
• Having fluent English, our team is global, and English is our first language.