[ALE-jobs] Senior position, full-time, Atlanta, Bank of America

[Howard, Leslie]

The Corporate Investments Group of Bank of America is looking for a 
full-time Atlanta engineer to join our infrastructure team.  The team 
architects, builds, manages & maintains high-performance Linux (RHEL) 
compute clusters.  Currently we are operating 7 clusters of between 1100

and 2200 cores each and backed with 10 GigE interconnect and NetApp
filers as well as a variety of supporting & associated platforms.  
We work in a rapidly growing & evolving environment that 
rewards novel and effective new uses of technology to improve the 
performance & reliability of our architecture.

The official job description is below and goes into greater detail.  If
you are interested in this position, you can apply using job number 
000030568 through the bank's Careers website:

http://careers.bankofamerica.com/overview/overview.asp



Bank of America is seeking an Infrastructure Systems Engineer to join
the 
Corporate Investments Group (CIG) in Atlanta, GA. CIG is a leader in the

Quantitative Finance industry and manages a $400 billion portfolio. Our 
team offers leading technology and process solutions coupled with
focused 
and properly leveraged expertise to design, implement, and support
thousands 
of compute systems that allow our trade desk clients to transform their 
business processes and accelerate business performance in looking for a 
constant and secure return on bank assets and investment funds. The CIG 
environment is innovative and fast paced and requires a high degree of 
contribution. Due to our rapid growth, we are currently seeking
candidates 
for the following opportunity: 

CIG Infrastructure Systems Engineer
JOB SUMMARY (the purpose and general nature of the job) 
This is a key position within the Corporate Investments Infrastructure 
team responsible for the ongoing support including installation,
maintenance, 
and troubleshooting of the IT infrastructure across multiple vendors and

locations. This position will also be instrumental in the management of 
system availability, configuration management, change management,
performance 
management, and security management of the IT infrastructure. 

PRINCIPLE ROLES/ACCOUNTABILITIES include the following. In this
position, 
either directly or through others, the incumbent will: 

Role: Design

High availability design using industry standard 24x7 IT roadmap.
Design and architect IT solutions based on associated functional
requirements.
Work with vendor partners to develop and preset technical roadmap
designs
Develop costing of solutions per requirements

Role: Implement

Installation and configuration of new IT infrastructure
hardware/software.
Test and perform QA functions to validate the functionality of IT
infrastructure hardware/software.
Prepare training materials and provide support training among support
team.
Implement and maintain disaster recovery solutions as they relate to the
infrastructure


Role: Support

Day-to-day server hardware and software support and monitoring of the 
UNIX environment including Operating System software and security
compliance, 
maintenance, hardware break/fix, and performance troubleshooting
Creation and management of documentation on the configuration and
support of 
IT infrastructure devices.
Participate in night-time/weekend on call rotation and as needed (24 x
7) to 
provide after hour support during technical emergencies impacting the
business.

Role: Administer


Install software, apply patches, manage file systems, monitor
performance and 
troubleshoot alerts that are generated from monitoring systems.
Identify opportunities and implement solutions to streamline or
eliminate 
manual server operations task


Implement system device configurations based on requests from end users 
following IT policies and procedures.
Identify and implement practices to increase server reliability for high

availability performance
Develop and maintain policies and procedures for configuration/change 
management as well as capacity/performance management of related IT 
infrastructure devices.


Role: Secure
Develop best practices based on associated security policies, industry 
security standards, and audit regulations to ensure devices are 
appropriately secured from security breaches.
Resolve compliance break-fix incidents based on vulnerability testing, 
audits, and/or associated security-monitoring systems.
Implement security practices on associated IT infrastructure devices.

Role: Improve
Review performance and capacity management systems to determine
appropriate 
system tuning and recommended system modifications, which could improve 
the overall operations of the environment.
Work with the engineering teams  and vendors to be proactive in
improving 
the IT hardware/software production facilities.
Provide leadership for system hardware and software support.

Additional responsibilities and duties may be assigned. 


METRICS: Basic standards regarding how success will be measured

System availability meeting 99.9% service availability.
Average resolution of incidents within 1 day.
Response during on call within 20 minutes.
Implementation of system changes following associated processes 100% of
the time.
Implementation of new and/or modified devices meeting 100% of system
builds standards.
Completed of project milestones on time. 

KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE/SKILLS: Minimal requirements for education,
knowledge and experience:

5+ years of advanced Unix Systems Administration
3+ years of NAS administration
Expertise in large distributed computing/client-server architecture,
Unix/Linux, Network File Systems and NTFS file sharing  
Experienced with monitoring, security, and networking (TCP/IP) concepts 
Experience with scripting to customize functionality of server and
storage systems 
Ability to self-manage and follow through on tasks from inception to
closure
Superior ability to clearly document technical environments and concepts
Experience working with system monitoring tools such as Nagios and
Ganglia 
Proven technical troubleshooting experience in a multi-platform
Linux/Unix environment (network and server)  
Significant experience in Perl, HTML, CGI, and shell scripting (ksh, sh,
bash)