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Headquartered in Santa Ana California, Veros (www.veros.com) is a growing technology company that develops, operates and maintains custom software and business analytic solutions for the financial services industry. We are looking for a self-motivated, independent person to play a critical role, supporting the company's end user technology needs.
Veros offers a unique opportunity that encourages creativity and professional growth along with a competitive salary and benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, 401(k), paid vacation, holidays, and more. Great opportunity for the right person.
Reporting to the VP of IT Operations, the primary objective of this position is to maintain a high-performance, robust computing environment. The responsibilities of the role specifically include maintenance of the public-facing production technology infrastructure, including both Primary and Backup data centers, as well as major internal production and development systems. The Senior Systems Administrator is also responsible for forward-looking systems architecture evolution, oversight of local production operations and maintenance of an effective systems and resource monitoring program.
- Provide primary administration and support for all AIX and Linux servers
- Administer Large Multi-LPAR servers including provisioning storage from SAN, performance management, capacity planning, software and microcode upgrades
- Installing, maintaining, and configuring IBM AIX Operating Systems
- Support, configure and maintain SAN-based enterprise storage infrastructure
- Operate all UNIX-level backup and recovery systems to guarantee a stable operational environment and recovery standards as provided for in existing SLAs.
- Implement, administer and maintain a highly available and scalable system infrastructure
- Design, maintain and practice disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
- Monitor production infrastructure using enterprise-class systems monitoring software
- Develop custom monitoring solutions for specific components as requiredMaintain a secure environment for sensitive customer, prospect and organizational trade secret data
- Develop and maintain effective systems automation procedures through the use of shell scripting and similar techniques
- Document technical operations standards
- Adheres to all company policies and procedures including, but not limited to those identified within the Standards of Business Conduct and the Employee Handbook, as may be amended from time to time. Adheres to all applicable laws and regulations and the company's governance/compliance program.
- Responsible for reporting violations of the company's policies and procedures, Standards of Business Conduct, governance program, laws and regulations through the company's Help Line or other mechanism that may be available at the time of the violation. Assists with internal control failure remediation efforts.
- Becomes knowledgeable of internal control responsibilities through training and instruction. Responsible and accountable for internal control performance within their area of responsibility. Participates in the internal controls self-assessment process.
- Ensures concerns with internal control design or performance and process changes that impact internal control execution are communicated to management.
1. Proficiency in the following skills is required with skill level as noted:
- (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert)
- IBM P-Series servers (Power7 P770, PowerVM - LPM and AMS) - Expert
- Install, upgrade, configure, and support AIX 6.1 and higher OS software - Expert
- IBM LPAR, HMC, VIO technologies - Expert
- Storage Area Networks – Advanced
- Networking - Advanced
- Cisco technologies - Advanced
- Oracle - Intermediate
2. Prior practical experience in the following areas is considered relevant to the position as indicated: (Mandatory, Desirable, Useful)
- Managing multiple-server installations to production-quality standards, including production control, disaster planning and security administration - Mandatory
- UNIX and Linux administration, especially AIX and RHEL. This includes demonstrated competence with shell scripting and familiarity with common UNIX utilities – Mandatory
- 8 years experience with AIX system administration including design of AIX infrastructure and integration into new and existing virtual and physical systems.
- 6 years experience with Power hardware design, trouble shooting, server tuning, optimization, and capacity planning
- Good written and verbal communication skills, ability to convey information on technical subjects to a wide variety of audiences - Mandatory
- Analytical skills and approach to problem resolution. - Mandatory
- Configuring and deploying SAN-based storage in a switched-fabric network. - Mandatory
- Configuring and maintaining Microsoft technologies, such as web servers, application servers, relational databases and LDAP repositories. - Desirable
- Project management and planning background – Desirable
- Configuring, compiling and installing GNU-based open source software - Desirable
- Creating, configuring, maintaining and tuning a consolidated server environment based on VMware technology. – Desirable
- HP, Cisco certification, Oracle Database administration, installation and configuration - Useful
For immediate consideration, please forward your resume, salary history/requirements via email only to careers@veros.com. Please reference "Senior Systems Administrator" in the subject of your email.
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