Linux Infrastructure Specialist (Hybrid)

PowerToFly; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Montreal is seeking a Linux Infrastructure Specialist to manage and implement Linux infrastructure. The role involves diagnosing production issues, collaborating with teams for outage resolutions, and ensuring operational stability. Ideal candidates have 4+ years of experience with Linux, strong technical knowledge, and are available for on-call duties. This position offers a hybrid work environment, requiring knowledge of both French and English.

Benefits

Comprehensive employee benefits

Hybrid work model

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a similar role.
• Strong knowledge and experience with Linux, preferably Redhat.
• Good understanding of configuration management tools.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve production impacting issues.
• Collaborate with other infrastructure teams for outage resolution.
• Carry out tasks to maintain operational stability and compliance.

Skills

Linux

Red Hat Linux

Bash

DNS

Docker

Python

Tools

Configuration management tools

Redhat Satellite

Puppet

Chef

Job description

We’re seeking someone to join our Unix Operations team as a Linux Infrastructure Specialist to help us implement and manage the Linux infrastructure for Morgan Stanley.

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.

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is an Infrastructure Production Management & Reliability Engineering III position at Director level, which is part of the job family responsible for maintaining the stability and reliability of the organization’s infrastructure systems, ensuring optimal performance and availability to support business operations.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on…

What you’ll do in the role:

• 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

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 4+ years of experience in a similar role.
• 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, Docker 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.

Nice to have:

• 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 BC.

At Morgan Stanley Montreal, we support the Firm’s global businesses and infrastructure with cutting edge technology and innovation. The multi‑faced and highly technical Montreal team plays a critical role in building and maintaining our leading technology platform, including electronic trading, algorithm trading, cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity and AI/ML. Morgan Stanley has been rooted in the Montreal community since 2008 and is considered a leading employer among the area’s highly skilled technology talent. There’s ample opportunity to move across the businesses for those who show passion and grit in their work.

All our positions are located in Montreal, Quebec. We offer a hybrid work environment, combining remote work and attendance in the office.

Knowledge of French and English is required.

Build a career with impact. Visit morganstanley.com for more information.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first‑class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what’s best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work‑life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential.