Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Description:

JRI-America Ireland Technology Development Center requires C# developers to join its Metastorm team. This team develops and supports tactical and strategic IT projects, which covers enhancements, change requests and new features from the business units.

Role Specifics:

You will be responsible for the development and support of metastorm workflows to automate business processes and optimize the use of systems and information. You will demonstrate strong workflow design, development and troubleshooting skills. You will be working with other highly experienced developers based in SMBCE / JRIA.

The candidate must be able to contribute significantly to any design and refactoring discussions, demonstrate strong communication skills, and be able to articulate problems and solutions in a concise manner.

Self motivation is key, as the individual will be working in a global team, split across multiple time zones and will be expected to progress tasks within exacting timescales.

Skills Required:

We are looking primarily for an experienced developer with strengths in C#, PL/SQL or TSQL and ideally Metastrom experience. The successful candidate should be comfortable across a wide variety of technical disciplines and show willingness to embrace different technologies. The candidate must have strong communication skills.

2-4 years of experience in the following:

• C#
• SQL/PL SQL Database experience ideally Oracle
• SQL/PL SQL Database experience ideally Oracle
• System design and architecture
• Development Tools like Visual Studio & Toad

Skills Desired

• Agile development techniques; JIRA
• Source Control & Build Techniques in the C# Domain

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Description:

JRI-America Ireland Technology Development Center requires a UI Designer to join its Engineering team who will be tasked with designing innovative products that are highly creative visually with intuitive interactions, consistent user flows and that meet the business and user's objectives.

Role Specifics:

You will be responsible for the development and maintenance of the cash management interface. In addition to this you will be responsible for designing a Web 2.0/RIA look and feel for the enterprise application to align the company products with modern UI concepts. This will require taking the existing products and both drafting and implementing an innovative approach to the user interfaces. You will be working with other highly experienced developers and business analysts based in SMBCE / JRIA. The candidate should demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills.

Skills Required:

We are looking primarily for an experienced developer with strengths in HTML5, CSS, AJAX (JavaScript jQuery, JSON etc) & Cross Browser Development. The successful candidate should be comfortable across a wide variety of web technologies and show willingness to embrace different technologies.

2-4 years of experience in the following:

• HTML 5
• XML, XHTML, CSS or XSLT
• JavaScript (jQuery, JSON, AJAX Principles)
• Cross Browser Development
• User interface design
• Experience preparing wireframe User Interface mock - ups

Skills Desired

Agile development techniques; JIRA

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

The Information Security Systems Administrator is an IT professional with responsibility for supporting security solutions for the organisation. In collaboration with members of the Systems Administration, Database Administration, IT Development and Application Support teams, the Security Administrator will implement and maintain solutions that monitor and secure internal and external systems and infrastructure. This includes the on-going maintenance and management of hardware and software that secures the organisations' systems, analysing and troubleshooting issues, and monitoring for potential security incidents.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Efficiently plan, design and develop technical solutions to meet business requirements in conjunction with client standards and best practices.
• Research and evaluate existing and upcoming technologies.
• Effectively co-ordinate with other development groups and manage day to day activities.
• Promote superb Quality Control processes and Quality Assurance in the entire department.
• Provide top notch technical training to the other team members.
• Actively participate in PoCs (proof of concept) and assist the department in their selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and frameworks.
• Perform system maintenance, production incident problem management, identification of root cause, remediation of the problems and on-call pager support schedule.

Experience & Knowledge Requirements:

• Strong understanding of Windows and Unix environments with at least 2 years of system administration
• Working knowledge of MS Active Directory and Imprivata
• Sound knowledge of security techniques and defenses against viruses and other attacks
• Sound conceptual knowledge of file systems, databases, virtualization, and identity management
• Working knowledge of monitoring protocols such as Syslog and SNMP
• Good understanding and knowledge of network communications (TCP/IP, ICMP, Telnet, etc…)
• Good understanding of web technologies (IIS/Apache, HTTP/S, Java, etc…)
• Familiarity with software installation techniques and troubleshooting, including package management with MSI and RPM
• Familiarity with encryption protocols such as SSH, SSL
• Basic ability to program scripts and batch files (VB Script, Shell, Perl, etc…)
• Working knowledge of MS Office, MS Visio and MS Project

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

• Efficiently plan, design and develop technical solutions to meet business requirements in conjunction with client standards and best practices.
• Research and evaluate existing and upcoming technologies.
• Effectively co-ordinate with other development groups and manage day to day activities.
• Promote superb Quality Control processes and Quality Assurance in the entire department.
• Provide top notch technical training to the other team members.
• Actively participate in PoCs (proof of concept) and assist the department in their selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and frameworks.
• Perform system maintenance, production incident problem management, identification of root cause, remediation of the problems and on-call pager support schedule.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor degree in information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Must have experience in Java, J2EE, SQL, LDAP, JMS, E-Directory Administration, Application Servers, GWT etc…
• 3 to 5 years of experience in a related field.
• A good knowledge of the following Application/Web Servers: Apache, Tomcat, Websphere.
• Developed competencies in the following technologies: Java, JSL, DHTML, XHTML, Javascript, AJAX, XML, Spring, SQL, JMeter, JUnit, Maven, ANT and Oracle

Skills:

• Highly self motivated with excellent negotiation, interpersonal and collaborative skills.
• A highly motivated individual with the ability to change in an ever evolving industry.
• Must be highly energetic, detail-orientated, and extremely pro-active and have the ability to perform under pressure in a challenging environment.
• A hunger and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member a geographically distributed project team.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written are required.

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Description:

JRI-America Ireland Technology Development Center requires Java, J2EE developer to join its web applications development team. This team develops and manages tactical and strategic IT projects, which covers enhancement and fix requests and new requirements from the business units.

Role Specifics:

You will be responsible for development and support of the application's server side components, which form the backbone of the application. You will demonstrate strong design, development and troubleshooting skills. You will be working with other highly experienced Java developers based in SMBCE / JRIA

The role is within an existing development team, and will entail a significant amount of time on development. The candidate must be able to contribute significantly to any design and refactoring discussions, so should demonstrate strong communication skills, and be able to articulate problems and solutions in a concise manner.

Self motivation is key, as the individual will be working in a global team, split across multiple time zones and will be expected to progress tasks within exacting timescales. The candidate should demonstrate strong communication skills – both verbal and written and be aware of the problems communication across time zones can pose.

Skills Required:

We are looking primarily for an experienced distributed Java developer with major strengths in Java, J2EE Stack, UNIX and a RDBMS, but the successful candidate should be comfortable across a wide variety of technical disciplines and show willingness to embrace different technologies. The candidate must have strong communication skills.

2-4 years of experience in the following:

• JDK1.5/JDK6.0
• Server-side Java Development by using middleware technologies like EJB 3.0(Transaction processing)
• Struts, Spring
• JPA, Hibernate, IBatis
• Messaging middleware, preferably MQ Series
• System design and architecture
• In-depth knowledge in Web2.0 standards
• SQL/PL SQL Database experience ideally Oracle
• Linux/Unix and shell scripting experience
• XML, XSD, SAX, STAX, DOM, JAXB
• Websphere Application Server
• Ant
• Junit
• Tools like Eclipse, Toad, Quality Center

Skills Desired:

Webservices, GWT; Jasper Reports; Eclipse; Agile development techniques;

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

The Senior Software Configuration Engineer is an IT engineer with responsibility for all stages of the software release cycle. This includes the configuration of the new SCM system and the migration of the existing codebase to the new SCM tool. The role also includes the on-going maintenance and management of the software release process and ensuring the company is in a position for expansion in the future.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provision state-of-art enterprise build system to support the evolving needs of the organization.
• Implementation and rollout of the new Enterprise SCM toolset by migrating Visual Source Safe (VSS), Subversion and PVCS Manager repositories over to Dimension CM
• Develop and implement an enterprise application deployment strategy using Dimensions-CM.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to engineering teams (e.g. version control, deployment, security standards) for Dimensions-CM12.2
• Administer and maintain Dimension CM version control system repositories.
• Provide guidance to development team on IDE integration and development methodologies.
• Provide industry best practices in the SCM domain.
• Maintain and support build and release packages for development and technical teams.

Experience/Knowledge Requirements:

• Expertise in SCM tools, in particular SVN, Serena Dimensions, VSS, PVCS Manager V8 would be an advantage.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Build, Maven & Ant is essential.
• Experience with Continuous Integration tooling (Bamboo/Hudson) would be an advantage.
• Experience with Java Application Servers (WebSphere, JBoss etc)
• Working knowledge of JIRA.
• Knowledge of platforms, e.g. Solaris (x86), Linux
• Strong scripting competence to program scripts and batch files (Shell, Perl, Python, etc…)
• Experience of working in agile teams using Scrum or other agile methodology would be an advantage.
• Strong understanding of source control concepts and workflows, source control administration, distributed version control, and the logistics of managing large code repository
• Experience migrating version control repository over to Dimension CM would be an advantage.

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

The Test Manager will have responsibility for the definition & execution of the test strategy for the enterprise application. They will be required to manage the documentation and execution of all aspects of the testing lifecycle of both proprietary and 3rd party software.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• To allocate, schedule and manage work to achieve all test deliverables.
• To proactively manage, minimize and escalate risk arising from testing activities across all projects.
• To proactively promote enterprise & industry standard testing best practices.
• Test process and tools continuously adapted, and colleagues consulted as necessary, to ensure the most efficient and cost effective tools and processes are employed and meet the specific project requirements.
• Advice, assistance and leadership in any area associated with the planning, procurement, provision, delivery, management, maintenance or effective use of information systems and their environments provided to ensure a thorough understanding of the implications of the testing phase.
• Mentoring and test support provided to assigned test resources.
• Acquire resources in a timely manner, manage resource / performance escalations and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure master test plans are defined, produced and managed against each assigned projects
• Ensure all testing deliverables (system/regression/UAT) for projects under remit are completed on time, within estimated test budgets and meet relevant quality standards.
• Work effectively with project team to manage all delivery elements of the service and ensure consistency is applied in how delivery is managed and executed.

Experience/Knowledge Requirements:

• Proven understanding of testing tools and standards.
• Experience of Industry Standard Automated Testing Tools e.g. HP Quality Center, Selenium, Loadrunner, JMeter etc.
• Has previous experience in IT projects or Business IT projects.
• Has 5-10 years experience in testing/change management role.
• Practical understanding and experience of testing best practice, including industry trends.
• Proven experience of managing complex change in a fast moving environment.
• Experience of working with 3rd parties.
• Operations management - understanding of how business units function.
• Educated to degree level or holding a professional qualification.
• Has a good understanding of the role of software testing and of all testing events throughout the development lifecycle.
• Expertise in SCM tools, in particular SVN, Serena Dimensions would be an advantage
• Working knowledge of JIRA.
• Knowledge of platforms, e.g. Solaris (x86), Linux
• Ability to function and contribute to a team environment.
• Experience of working in agile teams using Scrum or other agile methodology would be an advantage.
• Familiarity with the SDLC lifecycle and the role of functional, content & performance testing.

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

The Senior WebSphere Administrator is an IT engineer with responsibility for installing and administering the Enterprise WebSphere Application system. This includes the configuration of the WebSphere Application Server for the ever growing number of applications that are being ported to the WebSphere. The role also includes the on-going maintenance and management of the WebSphere Enterprise Domain and ensuring the company is in a position for expansion in the future.

You will be responsible for designing and developing solutions, troubleshooting issues promotion of the enterprise application through the SDLC process. The WebSphere Administrator will be responsible for new development, on-going maintenance and Production support of our enterprise applications which are deployed on a WebSphere platform.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Build, Manage, Deploy and Support of the WebSphere tool suite (IBM HTTP Server, WebSphere, WebSphere Portal, MQ Server).
• Applying maintenance changes (within the Change Management Process)
• Expertise in WebSphere clustering and running on a virtualized environment
• Applying WebSphere patches & upgrades.
• Driving the investigation and resolution of issues effectively.
• Contributing and participating in putting new deployments in place.
• Delivery of project based work to agreed target dates.
• Automation of the enterprise application deployment process (Strong JACL Expertise).
• Provide industry best practices in the IBM WebSphere domain.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to team members.

Experience/Knowledge Requirements:

• Expertise in Maven & Ant
• IBM WebSphere Certification
• Experience in WebSphere upgrades, patching and troubleshooting
• Demonstrate strong Business and Systems Analysis skills.
• Knowledge of platforms, e.g. Solaris (x86), Linux
• Strong scripting competence to program scripts and batch files (Shell, Perl, Python, etc…)
• Demonstrate ability to work to strict deadlines and under pressure.
• Familiarity with the SDLC lifecycle including release management, software installation techniques and troubleshooting.
• Experience of working in agile teams using Scrum or other agile methodology would be an advantage.

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

To support the Bank's interface team unit and related interfaces that ensures business continuity, the Websphere Message Broker Developer is responsible for designing, developing solutions, troubleshooting issues and assisting with code reviews to ensure optimal solutions are being delivered. The WMB Developer will be responsible for new development, on going maintenance and Production support of all Bank's application internal and external interfaces.

Experience/Knowledge Requirements:

3 or more years experience with IBM Websphere Message Broker 7.0 - ( Message Sets and Message Definitions using XML, MRM and TDS formats - CSV, SWIFT and X12 ) , Message Flows using Compute Nodes, HTTP Nodes, SOAP Nodes, Routing Nodes, Mapping Nodes, Java Compute Node, Java Custom Nodes, FileInput and FileOutput Nodes and Database Nodes ).

Experience in Programming Languages: Korn Shell scripts, PERL, Java, SQL, C, C++.

Experience with project management, business analysis and development toolsets, including the MS Office Suite, Visio, MS Project, TOAD and PVCS Code management.

Experience in working with Operating systems such as UNIX (AIX), Linux (Suse), Windows (NT, 2000, XP), Open VMS.

Experience in working with Databases such as Oracle 9i, 10G, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures.

Experience with a wide variety of testing tools and techniques, ex. MBTestClient, JUnit and Test Director. Management skills to coordinate Change Management and production issues among multiple depts.. (Business, Operations, Vendor).

Required Skills/Abilities:

Excellent communication (oral and written) skills are a must. Computer skills are a must with the following software development tools:

• Database: Oracle 9i / 10G, PL/SQL Stored procedure,
• Application: Websphere Message Broker 6.0 / 6.1, Websphere MQ 7.0, MQFTE 7.0.4, ITCAM
• Programming languages: Korn shell, Java, XML,
• Operating Systems: Unix (AIX), Linux, Windows, MS Office: Excel, Word, Power Point.

During any Interface related production crisis, overtime is expected. Weekend work is expected due to inability to promote code during normal Banking business hours.

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

• 1 or more years experience working with Middleware Messaging products such as IBM's Websphere Message Broker (WMB) or MQ. Experience with WMB and MQ is plus but not necessary.
• Experience in Programming Languages: Korn Shell script & SQL
• Experience development toolsets, including the MS Office Suite, Visio, MS Project, PVCS Code management.
• Experience in working with Operating systems such as UNIX (AIX), Linux (Suse), Windows
• Experience in working with Databases such as Oracle 9i, 10G, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures.

Required Skills/Abilities:

Excellent communication (oral and written) skills are a must. Computer skills are a must with the following software development tools:

• Database: Oracle 9i / 10G, PL/SQL Stored procedure,
• Application: Websphere Message Broker 6.0 / 6.1 is plus, Websphere MQ 6.0 is plus
• Programming languages: Korn shell, Java, XML,
• Operating Systems: Unix (AIX), Linux, Windows,
• MS Office: Excel, Word, Power Point.
• During any Interface related production crisis, overtime is expected.
• Some Weekend work is expected due to inability to promote code during normal Banking business hours.

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

An experienced Server Engineer is required to join our Support team in Tralee responsible for the support and maintenance of Windows Servers and Voice & Data networks supporting the business within the Americas and EMEA regions. Candidates will be required to participate in a shift rota.

Technical Skills:

• Microsoft: Windows 2003/2008 Administration, Active Directory
• Citrix: XenApp 5/6, PVS, AppSense 7/8
• Programming languages: Korn shell, Java, XML,
• Symantec Netbackup 6.5/7
• CISCO: UCS Blade Chassis and FI
• VMWARE: ESXi, vCenter, Update Manager, vMotion, DRS, Distributed Switches
• Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP
• Storage: SAN technologies, Fibre-channel, iSCSI, WWN

Experience:

• Previous Wintel project experience including infrastructure implementation and deployment
• Good understanding of Windows infrastructures (including 2003 & 2008)
• Established experience in enterprise Citrix/XenApp infrastructure
• Experience of managing virtualised infrastructure
• Customer focused, flexible and willing to take ownership of issues
• Good interpersonal skills with excellent written and verbal communication

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

An experienced Network and Telecoms Engineer is required to join our Support team in Tralee responsible for the support and maintenance of Windows Servers and Voice & Data networks supporting the business within the Americas and EMEA regions. Candidates will be required to participate in a shift rota.

Technical Skills:

• Avaya Communication Manager 5.x/6.x
• Avaya G350/G650/G700 Media Gateways
• Avaya S8300/S8720 Media Servers
• Cisco IOS configuration
• Cisco NXos configuration
• Cisco 7500, 3700, 3600, 2800, 2600 series routers
• Cisco 7018, 6513, 4500, series switches
• Storage: SAN technologies, Fibre-channel, iSCSI, WWN
• Nortel Meridian Option 11, Nortel Meridian Mail 12 & Nortel OTM software
• Microsoft DHCP and DNS

Experience:

• Real-world experience of supporting enterprise voice and networking solutions (voice platforms, end-stations, LAN and WAN)
• Cisco CCNP or demonstrable equivalent experience
• Avaya Communication Manager 5.x/6.x voice platform accreditation.
• Customer focused, flexible and willing to take ownership of issues
• Good interpersonal skills with excellent written and verbal communication

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

The candidate for this position will be responsible for the development of the MIS interfaces for SMBC's Tokyo Head Office using IBM's ETL tool Datastage. The candidate will be responsible for maintenance and support of the existing interfaces including investigation of issues and production troubleshooting. This position will be a key member in JRIA's Interface Team and will support bank's critical applications for Europe and North America.

Experience/Knowledge Requirements

• MUST have DataStage parallel and server experience, preferably 8.x
• 5+ years of experience in DataStage 8.0/7.5
• Experience with developing both server and parallel jobs running on a UNIX platform against relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, or SQL Server systems as source and target data environments
• Experience working in all phases of a full project life cycle, including low-level Design
• Strong knowledge of Unix Korn shell scripting
• Strong knowledge of relational and dimensional database concept

Required Skills/Abilities

• Excellent communication (oral & written) skills are a must.
• Datastage 8.x
• Oracle Databases 10g and 11g
• Operating Systems: Unix & Windows 2003

Skills and Special Requirements

Occasional weekend and late night support for production support and migration

Must have quality team building skills, positive attitude, detail oriented, self motivated and strong project management skills.

Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

As an Oracle Apps Reports Developer on the Apps Development Reporting team, candidate will be required to analyse business and technical requirements, leverage technical knowledge of Oracle e-Business Suite (GL, AP, and HR), and to develop appropriate reporting solutions according to user requirements. The Oracle Apps Reports Developer will be responsible for new development, ongoing maintenance, and Production support for reporting solutions using Oracle development tools such as Oracle Discoverer, Oracle Reports, and XML BI Publisher. Candidate will build and maintain Oracle XML BI Publisher Reports for Oracle Release 12. The candidate will be responsible for migrating existing Discoverer reports from Oracle Applications Release 11 to Release 12. The Oracle Apps Reports Developer will also assist the Apps Development Reporting team with the migration of applications reports from Discoverer to Cognos BI, and provide ongoing maintenance for the Oracle Applications reports on Cognos BI.

Candidate will adhere to established processes and standards for development, documentation, change management, and testing.

• Minimum of 3-5 years hands-on experience developing Oracle Applications reports (Discoverer, XML Publisher)
• Must have experience using SQL to query and analyse data in Oracle Database
• Experience with NoetixViews for Oracle Applications would be a plus
• Experience with Cognos BI Reporting application would be a plus
• Technical knowledge of the Oracle GL, AP, and HR modules of the e-Business Suite would be a plus
• Must have experience working directly with users to analyse and develop business/technical requirements
• Must have experience troubleshooting Production reporting issues

The job requires excellent analytical skills/ tools to understand business reporting requirements and to resolve Production issues. Excellent communication (oral & written) skills are a must, as this candidate will work directly with users to gather requirements and to resolve Production issues.

Computer skills are a must with the following software development tools: Oracle Discoverer, Oracle Custom Reports (XML BI Publisher), and SQL. Cognos BI (Report Studio and Query Studio), and NoetixViews for Oracle Applications would be a plus.

May need to work on weekends or late hours when addressing a production issue or new code deployment is being performed in production.

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties:

Requirement is to support the Banks Loans system - knowledge of both Loan IQ and the corporate loans market is desired:

Main Functions of Role

• Daily Support of User Community on a Global Basis;
  • Support involves assisting the users with routine bookings,
  • Investigations into account errors related to bookings, and the updating of ad hoc reports and the updating of static data code tables.
• Investigating System errors;
  • Working with Technical Support and Users to test, recreate and document the error and liase with the Vendor to achieve a solution.
• Business Process Improvement;
  • Working with the Business Process Owner and the various Business Groups throughout the Bank, investigate ways to add new products and improve application workflows, creating specification documents, as required, for both internal development and external development by the Vendor.
• Project Management;
  • Take all System changes through the SDLC process. This includes initial testing, preparing UAT environments, compiling results, reporting progress to management, and finally presenting for approval to the change committee for implementation to Production.
• Training;
  • The ability to create training material, and present the knowledge and understand on both a one-to-one and group basis.

Necessary Experience

• Loans Administration to a Supervisor/Approver level
  • Syndications and Agency
  • Loan Trading
  • Interest and Fee Calculations
• Previous Loan IQ User
• Previous involvement in User Acceptance Testing

Desired Experience

• Previous System Support Role
• Previous Project Management
• Previous Training Delivery
• LIQ Code Table Configuration

Necessary Skills

• Word/Excel/Powerpoint
• Ability to work unsupervised

Desired Skills

• Understanding of the LIQ Data Model
• Understanding of Basic SQL

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties

• Support the bank's local and wide-area network during core support hours (08:00 - 18:00 Monday to Friday);
• Support the bank's local and wide-area network outside of core support hours (early morning support of Dubai & other offices, UK public holidays, ad-hoc weekends);
• Provide design solutions to meet the project and ad-hoc requirements of other PD-ISG support and implementation groups;
• Implement design enhancements over weekends and during other out-of-hours support windows;
• Support the project and ad-hoc requirements of other PD-ISG support and implementation groups over weekends and during other out-of-hours support windows;
• Ensure all design, implementation, support and maintenance activities adhere to the bank's system development life cycle;
• Ensure adherence to the bank's standards and strategies;
• Ensure all technical documentation is maintained to an appropriate level and reflects the as-installed environment;
• Assist in problem determination activities, leveraging the bank's fault reporting system;
• Ensure faults reported via the bank's fault reporting system are monitored, managed and progressed;
• Ensure faults reported via the bank's fault reporting system are updated with sufficient narrative to ensure a complete audit trail of a fault's life-cycle;
• Ensure alerts generated by the bank's pro-active monitoring systems are managed and progressed;
• Ensure carrier maintenance notifications are managed and progressed;
• Provide support to 1st, 2nd and 3rd level support staff;
• Be prepared to work unsociable hours and weekends, and be contactable when away from the office;
• Be prepared to travel to London and other branch sites on a regular basis;
• Supervise external contractors;
• Develop technical skills pertinent to role;
• Provide support and guidance to less experienced and more junior team members;
• Provide timely progress reporting to the European Network Manager; and,
• Undertake any other duties as reasonably requested by the European Network Manager.
• Real-world experience of implementing and supporting enterprise LAN and WAN solutions from project conception to delivery.
• Real-world experience of implementing/integrating and supporting enterprise voice solutions in a converged environment.
• Real-world experience in a similar financial environment.

Certifications

• Cisco CCNP; and,
• PRINCE2

Environments

• Excellent IP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application of the IPV4 protocol suite, some knowledge of IPV6.
• In-depth knowledge of and real-world experience with major internet routing protocols; specifically BGP and OSPF;
• In-depth knowledge of and real-world experience with Cisco IOS configuration;
• In-depth knowledge of and real-world experience with Cisco SanOS configuration;
• In-depth knowledge of and real-world experience with Cisco NX-OS configuration;
• In-depth knowledge of and real-world experience with Cisco 7500, 7200, 3900, 3800, 2900 & 2800 series routers and applicable supervisor modules and line-cards;
• In-depth knowledge of and real-world experience with Cisco Nexus, 6500, 4500, series switches and applicable supervisor modules and line-cards; and,
• Excellent network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting skills.

Other

• Microsoft Windows 2Kx operating systems installation and support desirable.
• A dependable self-starter who is able to take action with minimal direction;
• An individual able to leverage project management methodology's and effectively manage multiple projects and tasks; and,
• An individual able to operate at both tactical and strategic levels.
• An extensive knowledge and proven track-record of voice and data infrastructure technologies within financial institutions.
• Deep knowledge of data and voice communications.
• Customer focused, flexible and willing to take ownership of issues and projects.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong professional presence and impact.

Location

Tralee, Ireland

Position Responsibilities/Duties

The Unix Systems Administrator is responsible for the installation, maintenance, configuration and support of Linux/Unix hardware and software systems. They provide system and application support on the Linuxand Unix systems and perform troubleshooting and systems-debugging tasks following documented procedures. They work individually and as part of a team on various system projects and provide technical guidance to the Operations team.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and deploy UNIX and Linux operating software, application and associated components.
• Thoroughly test hardware and software upgrades working off shift hours if necessary to accomplish the testing.
• Follow documented procedures to debug and correct installed UNIX operating system software as required.
• Work with Hardware and Software vendors for troubleshooting and assisting in problem management.
• Follow documented procedures to plan, prepare and apply maintenance fixes to system software as required.
• Follow documented procedure to tune system software for peak performance and availability.
• Assist Application support team and Developers with high level problem support for program debugging and correction.
• Provides end user and UNIX support for applications via Customer Support.
• Provides off shift on call support for systems support.
• Actively participate in Technology and Business Recovery activities.
• Stays abreast with technical and operational tools and knowledge required to perform assigned duties.
• Follow documented procedure to implement system maintenance or change requests
• Follow documented procedure to respond to Tivoli Storage Manager alerts and take necessary corrective actions.
• Follow documented procedure to upgrade Tivoli Storage Manager clients and servers.

Experience & Knowledge Requirements:

• 5 or more years system admin experience
• 3+ years of Linux system admin experience (RedHat)
• 3+ years of AIX system administration experience
• Good documentation skills
• Proactive and capable of owning an issue to completion
• Experience of HP-UX, Solaris or Tru64 an advantage.
• Experience of BMC BladeLogic and RedHat Satellite Server an advantage.
• Experience if Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Hitachi JP1 scheduler, Tilovi Starge Manager an advantage.