POSITION TITLE: Senior Systems Administrator
About In2M Corporation: In2M is a leading Internet and mobile software services company specializing in the development and delivery of financial productivity applications for personal and business use. In July 2006, PC World placed Mvelopes 3.0, the company's flagship product, in their top 100 best products of 2006 list. It was also ranked as the World Class Award winner in its category. In 2007, the company is expanding its product lines with the introduction of a business version of its flagship product, expanding mobile access capability with the introduction of XHTML/WAP 2.0 clients for both personal and business product lines, and expanding globally with launches in Australia and the United Kingdom.
| Job Title: |
Senior Systems Administrator |
| Location: |
Draper, UT, USA |
| Company: |
In2M Corp. |
| Department: |
Information Technology |
Duties:
- Part of a small team of talented Systems Administrators responsible for a large complex infrastructure environment, including network infrastructure, web servers, application servers, and database servers.
- Design, plan, and implement complex information and infrastructure systems to support business strategies. Upcoming projects include clustering, virtualization, high-availability, centralized storage, data warehousing environment, application integration, and application server and database hardening.
- Establish and recommend process, policies, and standards on system use and services.
- Provide technical leadership in areas of expertise and/or supervises/mentors more junior team members in terms of best practices and In2M processes.
- Automate monitoring or periodic preventative maintenance processes.
- Evaluate and recommend purchases of solutions and provide purchase justification.
- May participate in on-call duties on a rotational basis.
- Performs database administration functions on Oracle and PostgreSQL DBMS's, including general maintenance, performance tuning, availability, backup & recovery, and data warehousing administration.
- Creates and approves infrastructure documentation used in all aspects of IT Infrastructure Operations, including systems configuration, troubleshooting steps, how-to documentation, etc.
- Assesses security of existing and proposed systems. Recommends and implements proactive plans to resolve vulnerabilities.
- Learns and understands business processes and production applications to a level sufficient to troubleshoot issues and recommend and/or implement short and long-term resolutions.
- Works with and leverages offshore team to drive maintenance activities and deliver infrastructure projects.
- Proactively create plans of attack for projects and major tasks. Assist with the preparation of project plans. Follow a structured project delivery framework, while balancing the needs of the customer.
Required Skills:
- Technically proficient in command-line Linux administration, performance optimization, auditing, virtualization, shell scripting, and troubleshooting.
- Able to manage time effectively, and manage multiple projects with varying levels of complexity, resources, deadlines, and cross-functional dependencies. Able to objectively prioritize work based on cost, benefit, risk, and organization expectations.
- Able to resourcefully apply systems thinking to generate solutions; obtain multiple assessments of a situation and be systematic in troubleshooting; use tools to define problems, evaluate alternative solutions.
- Able to perform a wide variety of tasks and change focus quickly as demands change; adapt to varying customer needs.
- Able to deal with unresolved situations, frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
- Able to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information.
- Able to think conceptually, suggesting and following strategic architectural initiatives.
- Able to complete tasks within a constrained schedule and budget and ensure functional goals are met.
- Able to prepare for emerging customer needs; juggle multiple initiatives; determine requirement urgency; use goals to guide actions and create detailed action plans.
- Able to clearly present information through spoken and written words; read and interpret complex information; talk with customers; listen well.
- Able to develop rapport with others, both in the business function, and in technical roles, and understand others' perspectives.
- Stays up to date with new technologies, platforms, architectures, and concepts. Able to recommend change when technologies or architectures are right for the organization.
- Able to effectively manage projects and personnel. In2M is a quickly growing provider of on-line cash flow management tools; career growth opportunities will present themselves as the team continues to grow to meet the demands of the market and business.
Required Education/Experience:
- 6-8 years systems administration experience.
- 2-3 years database administration experience.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Experienced in open source technologies: Linux (Debian, SUSE), Postgres, OFBiz, Apache, Tomcat, and others.
- Database Administration experience (Oracle, Postgres, EnterpriseDB).
- Experience administering network infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers, switches, VPN's).
- Experience assessing and resolving Security vulnerabilities.
- Experience in a rapid, iterative development environment.
- Experience working with an offshore team desired.
- Experience with change/configuration management working in controlled production environments.
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