Required Skillsets
- Ability to evaluate current environments and make recommendations for performance and architecture improvements.
- Support technical initiatives, ensuring solutions remain up to date as industry-changing technologies arise.
- Design and build secure, highly available solutions, utilizing Change Management so production systems have undergone peer review prior to implementation on the live system.
- Experience with Cloud, SAN, corporate, and virtualized environments.
- Maintain very high uptime of critical corporate and client facing infrastructure.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to learn a broad range of technical solutions and issues.
- Collaborate with the Sales, Technology and Operation teams to understand and deliver the best possible technical solution from our broad range of products and services.
- Responsible for the proper maintenance and upkeep of Linux-based systems including corporate web servers, ESXi hosts, vCenter servers, DNS servers, syslog servers and internally hosted Exchange.
- Build, secure, and maintain a wide variety of servers in use in multiple datacenters.
- Provide high level support to both clients and corporate solutions and systems.
- Investigate and respond to all reports of systems issues for internal and client systems.
- Provide hardware and software recommendations to senior management for infrastructure upgrades.
- Must have demonstrated development and support skills in a fast-paced environment
- Willingness to work flexible schedule if necessary.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Pluses
- Understanding of the VMware administrative platform including ESXi.
- Previous project management experience.
- IT certifications in Cloud, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Active Directory, VMware and Linux.
Qualifications
- Minimum five years of experience in a datacenter or similar computing environment.
- Experience with back-office solutions and IT architecture.
- Experience with cloud-based offerings, including AWS, Azure, Google or similar solutions.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple and straightforward business fashion.