Server Operations (Operations (Tech))

Job Description

*About UsMorgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. We advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for governments, institutions and individuals. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. We provide you a superior foundation for building a professional career where you can learn, achieve and grow. Technology/Role/Department at Morgan Stanley Technology is the key differentiator that ensures that we manage our global businesses and serve clients on a market-leading platform that is resilient, safe, efficient, smart, fast and flexible. Technology redefines how we do business in global, complex and dynamic financial markets. We have a large number of award winning technology platforms that help to propel our Firm s businesses to be the top in the market. Our India technology teams are based in Mumbai and Bengaluru. We have built strong techno-functional teams which partner with our offices globally taking global ownership of systems and products. We have a vibrant and diverse mix of technologists working on different technologies and functional domains. There is a large focus on innovation, inclusion, giving back to the community and sharing knowledge.The Unix Operations team is responsible for implementing and managing the Linux infrastructure for Morgan Stanley. The group is involved in evaluation, certification, integration, and maintenance of various products, including hardware, Operating Systems, such as Red Hat Linux and Solaris, system services (DNS, DHCP, NTP, syslog, etc.), file systems (NFS, AFS, Hadoop and various cluster file systems), High Availability, Virtualization technologies and a variety of in-house developed tools. We interact with a high number of customers from numerous business units to generate improvements that ensure the smooth operation of the plant without being hard to manage. We also liaise with engineering groups to set direction for the many disciplines that are part of our day-to-day service portfolio (storage, core infrastructure services and special projects) and create different solutions for the low-level components that makes our infrastructure tick. We interact with many customers from numerous business units as a mechanism to generate improvements to be able to run the bank more efficiently and effectively. Job ResponsibilitiesThe role is critical to our day to day incident management function with primary responsibilities for: - Diagnosis and resolution of immediate production impacting issues in the compute and storage plant - Working with other infrastructure teams including networking, database administration and hosted solution teams for outage resolution, as well as customers aligned with the business users of our plant to determine scope, impact, and appropriate resolution path - Carry out proactive health & hygiene tasks to maintain operational stability and compliance for risk & control programs to ensure the production environment is not put at risk - Collaborate with engineering teams to test and certify new hardware & software products - Occasional weekend project work responsibilities to on-board new UNIX assets for growth or large programs such as new datacenter build outs - Ability to read complex code and also write scripts using Shell, Perl and Python., *Skills Required- Must have strong knowledge and experience with Linux, preferably Redhat, and/or any other Linux distributions. - Strong knowledge and experience of various services i.e DNS, DHCP, NTP, Kerberos, SSHD, PXE, SFTP, HTTPD etc. - Knowledge of various enterprise server hardware models [blades, rackmount, standalone] networking, routers and switches. - Must be able to read, understand and write intermediate to complex scripts using KSH, Bash, Perl, Python etc. - Good understanding and workings of configuration management tools, Redhat Satellite servers, Quattor, Puppet, Chef etc. - Good knowledge and understanding of Clustering, Virtualization, NAS, NFS and SAN - Excellent communication and written skills. Being able to explain technical problem to non-technical audience. - Available for on-call (1 week out of every 4-6 weeks), rotated weekly within the team, and become a point person for any production issues. - Ability to work in a global distributed team.Skills Desired-Experience with trouble shooting incidents involving compute resources, network problems, remote storage related problems [SAN, NAS] etc. -Experience with analyzing and diagnosing kernel carsh/core dumps, network packet captures and identifying the root cause of problem. -Sound knowledge of networking, TCP/IP, Layer 2/3 network design, firewall, switches and routers etc. -Experience working in a DevOps environment. -Knowledge and experience with various server hardware models and vendors i.e. IBM, Dell, HP etc. -Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and tune the system parameters to provide more throughput. -Good understanding and knowledge of Load Balancing, High Availability and BCP.

Keyskills :
data centerhigh availabilityred hat linuxtechno functionalnetwork designbusiness unitsfile systemsoperating systemsroot causelarge programsinvestment bankingload balancingwealth management