Job Description
Jefferies is seeking an experienced and dynamic professional to join our team as the Head of UNIX Engineering. In this leadership role, you will oversee and enhance our UNIX infrastructure globally, ensuring optimal performance, security, and reliability. The Head of UNIX Engineering will also lead a team of engineers located in the US, EMEA, and APAC.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strong leadership to a global team of UNIX engineers, fostering collaboration and driving excellence in system design, implementation, automation, and maintenance.
- Streamline deployment processes and enhance overall operational efficiency by using CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automation tools.
- Lead initiatives to design, implement, automate, and maintain robust and scalable UNIX environments, supporting the diverse needs of Jefferies’ global operations.
- Develop Terraform Enterprise and Ansible platforms modules, ensuring the seamless deployment and management of infrastructure as code across the organization.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement innovative solutions, staying ahead of industry trends and best practices.
- Work with Business technology partners to understand computing requirements and develop solutions.
- Establish and enforce security measures to protect UNIX environments, adhering to industry standards and compliance requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement by implementing capacity management, monitoring, and optimization efficiency strategies, obsolescence management, and ensuring high availability, resilience, and performance of UNIX systems.
- Manage vendor relationships to evaluate platforms, understand implementation best practices, and troubleshoot operational issues.
- Manage a team providing 24 x 7 operational support via Follow the Sun weekly work schedule and weekend on-call rotation.
- Develop and maintain a product roadmap for services being developed and managed by the team.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years’ experience in a leadership role within UNIX engineering, overseeing global teams.
- Expertise in creating and using CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automation tools.
- Hands-on experience managing Terraform Enterprise and Ansible platforms.
- Product management development
- Strong understanding of security best practices and compliance standards.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across diverse teams.
- Strategic mindset and the ability to drive initiatives that align with the organization’s goals.
- Understanding of the Linux operating system and various protocols and platforms. Including but not limited to the following:
- DNS
- NTP/PTP
- Kernel tunables
- Networking (TCP/IP)
- VMware Virtual Servers
The salary range for this role is $150,000-$225,000.
About Us
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse workforce and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. This includes applicants from historically underrepresented groups, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, military veterans, and individuals with disabilities or who are neurodiverse.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
