Senior Systems Administrator

KUBRA is in growth mode and seeking a talented Senior Systems Administrator to join our DevOps team!

The Senior Systems Administrator is responsible for supporting KUBRA’s Category 1 PCI production and pre-production environments contributing to KUBRA’s 100% uptime targets. The Senior Systems Administrator will also participate in planning and maintenance activities to support business as well as a participation in KUBRA’s rotating on call schedule. 

What you get to do every day

• Provide exceptional support for complex, multi-tenant and proprietary solutions.
• Monitor/maintain/administer/support Dev, Test, Pre-Production, Production Servers (physical, virtual, and cloud) and network infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotation to respond, investigate, resolve or escalate afterhours production issues within SLA.
• Continuously analyze, recommend, plan, and implement changes within AWS and Azure to improve our costs, supportability, resiliency, availability, and performance of our platform.
• Improve automation using configuration management and IaC tools such as Puppet and Terraform 
• Support Active Directory, DNS, SMTP, and IIS
• Contribute to DR/BCP planning and testing of production services.

What kind of person should you be?

• Comfortable speaking with audiences of deeply technical to non-technical folks
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to collaborate with fellow team members and teams across the organization
• Strong problem-solving capabilities
• Strong interpersonal and business skills
• Strong technical skills to support understanding existing solutions and architecture as well as future architecture needs
• Strong work ethic and dedication to quality
• Ability to work in a high-activity setting and multi-task
• Ability to work effectively on an issue and see it to satisfactory completion
• Positive attitude and calm under pressure
• A team player

What skills do you need?

• Computer Science or Computer Information Systems Degree or equivalent experience
• Other Education/Certification/Training required: AWS Associate Certification or above, Microsoft Certification, and Cisco Certification (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, etc.)
• 7+ years of experience with Windows Clients/Servers (Permissions, SMB/CIFS, DFS) experience
• 7+ years of experience with Advanced Active Directory (GPO, OU, Security Groups, Secure LDAP binding, Replication and related troubleshooting, FSMO role management etc.)
• 7+ years of experience with a variety of network protocols (DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SFTP, WMI, SNMP etc.)
• 7+ years of experience of virtualization experience (VMware, Hyper V)
• 7+ years of experience of Cloud experience (AWS, Azure)
• 4+ years of IaC experience (Terraform preferred) 4+ years
• 4+ years of CMS experience (Puppet preferred)
• Minimum 10+ years of experience at an expert level in system and network administration in a 24x7 multi-tenant, complex application development shop + NOC production environment is a must
• An advanced knowledge and experience of IT operations including: Physical and Virtual Server Clusters, SAN/NAS Storage, IP Networks (router, switches & load balancers), Datacenter Infrastructures

What can you expect from us?

• Award-winning culture that fosters growth, diversity and inclusion for all
• Paid day off for your birthday
• Access to LinkedIn learning courses
• Continued education with our education reimbursement program
• Flexible schedules
• Free unlimited access to our refreshment stations (fully stocked with tea, coffee and other beverages)
• Two paid days for volunteer opportunities

KUBRA is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. We will provide accommodations during the recruitment process upon request. Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only candidates under consideration will be contacted.