Position: System Administrator
Company: Access Softek
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

Access Softek is a software company headquartered in Berkeley, California with offices in Manhattan, Chicago, and Vancouver. We are creating digital banking solutions: online banking, mobile banking, omnichannel lending, and omnichannel account opening. Today our 300+ employees are serving over 400 financial institutions and reaching over 3 million mobile banking end-users every month. Our focus is on innovation: mobile-first, machine-learning, and AI everywhere.

Our Sysadmins Team is a team of highly-experienced professionals running US fintech company infrastructures (both on-prem and AWS hosted). Infrastructures we are running include, but not limited to VMWare ESXi instances, EC2 instances, Lambdas, ECS. Over 400 instances in total.

Areas of the team professional knowledge and interest:

— System administration: Windows, Linux, VMWare
— Scripting: PoSh, Bash, Go, Python, Ruby
— CI/CD: Gitlab CI, Octopus, AWS CodePipeline
— IaaC: Chef, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Git
— Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS
— Mailing systems: MS Exchange, Postfix, AWS SES
— Networking: Cisco, Juniper, General IPSEC, AWS VPC
— Load balancing: Nginx, AWS ELB
— Service Mesh: Consul, AWS App Mesh
— Queues: RabbitMQ
— Caching: Redis, AWS Elasticache
— DNS: Bind, AWS Route 53, AD
— Monitoring: ELK, Grafana, Nagios, AWS CloudWatch
— Security: AlienVault, AWS IAM, SSO, GuardDuty, SecurityHub, Inspector, CloudTrail, Shield

Our team uses Slack for team communication, chat-ops, and alerting; Zoom for meetings, Jira for task tracking, and Confluence for documents. We are continuously growing our skills by attending external and internal training sessions and courses.

Now we are looking for a System administrator to help us run US-based corporate office infrastructure and projects.

Responsibilities:
— Maintain rack mount hardware in server room
— Maintain VMWare infrastructure
— Manage backups (Veeam, CloudEndure)
— Support company staff in remote locations
— Maintain networking infrastructure (firewall, ipsec tunnels troubleshooting skills are required)
— Take care of company licenses
— Expand infrastructure to AWS cloud
— Work with vendors (hardware, software, ISP)

Requirements:
— Excellent knowledge of at least 1 scripting language
— Comfortable doing common administration tasks in both MS and Linux infrastructures (AD, MS Exchange, web servers, DNS, SSL certificates, backups, etc)
— Cisco, Juniper or equivalent hands-on experience
— CCNA certificate or equivalent is advantage
— VMWare hands-on experience
— Understanding of server, storage and networking hardware
— Comfortable using any kind of source control systems
— Strong passion for analyzing lots of information and learning
— Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
— English: intermediate
— Must have a passion for documenting things
— Remote work experience
— Comfortable using Jira or other task trackers.

Nice to have
— FreePBX administration experience
— MS Exchange administration experience
— Monitoring tools experience
— AWS cloud  experience
— Atlassian stack administration experience

Our benefits:
— Work from anywhere in the world!
— Competitive salary
— Compensation vacation (15 days off in a year)
— Global corporate events for all employees
— Internet compensation (50$ per month)