IT Engineer / Linux System administrator - any city in the Philippines

Fluent Trade Technologies is the fastest ‘end-to-end’ data & trading technology provider in the FX, FI and Futures markets.

Fluent is a market leader with a significant tier 1 & 2 client base in the financial world .

Please visit us at www.fluenttech.net

Position Overview:

- long-term/permanent work from home 

- location: Manila or any other city in the Philippines

Responsibilities:  

* handle all IT work [which includes FW, security, users VPN both from home and from office ] 

* work with all teams in the global company but also for any other requests to facilitate connectivity, access, permissions to various applications.

* work with the IT director on IT projects which includes new suggestions, overall design, reports are done via JIRA & emails.

* work hand in hand with devops/support people to solve all kinds of issues.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience of at least 5 years as IT staff
• Experience in 3rd party handling (suppliers, vendors, carriers, etc).
• fluent English
• Worked directly with US or EU customers.
• Sys Admin proficiency in main Linux OS flavors: Redhat / Centos 6,7,8, Ubuntu.
• Microsoft Windows Proficiency: Administration level, know and understand the latest Windows
• OS Releases, Windows 7/8/10, and Windows Servers 2008/2012: Remote desktop, Etc.
• Scripting: at least one of the following: BASH, Python, Perl
• Networking know-how: Fortigate firewall setup. Understanding the basics, Static routing, DHCP,
• basic WiFi knowledge.
• IT automation using the latest technologies for example Ansible.
• Solutions-oriented, fast-paced, job tracker, team player.

Advantage:

• Experience with working with development groups as an IT team leader
• Infrastructure maintenance: LAMP, monitoring tools,
• Bug management systems, e.g. Jira, Bugzilla, ...
• Server configuration tools, e.g. OMSA, PSP, …
• Monitoring skills: Nagios, Centreon, Zabbix, server configuration management: puppet/chef/salt.
• Configuration Management: Ability to understand and support software developers:
• Makefile, Scons, RPM building, compilation, and linkage, Phabricator.
• RHCE Certificate
• Networking: Ability to troubleshoot using advanced techniques. Understanding Wifi.
• Understanding fiber connectivity (Single-mode and Multimode), L3 routing protocol such as BGP, UDP unicast and multicast traffic
• Familiarity with firewall setup and configuration. Fortigate Appliances is a plus. VPN for clients.
• Familiarity with low latency switches such as Cisco Nexus Routers, Dell Force10, Arista
• Switches, Solarflare NIC cards is a plus.
• Worked with servers remotely or on-site.
• VOIP knowhow (SIP signaling, RTP stream (also in firewall), debug and phone troubleshooting of SIP Trunks and end products.
• Virtual machines: working & installing Cloud machines, QEMU, Docker, public Cloud suppliers: AWS,GCP. Cloud networking, etc.