Jr. Systems Administrator

Interface Systems is a leading managed service provider delivering business security, managed network, UCaaS, and business intelligence solutions to distributed enterprises. We enhance security, streamline connectivity, optimize operations and reduce IT costs, maximizing ROI for the nation’s top brands. Our company vision is to enable enterprises to innovate faster and adapt to market forces. We bring this to life through our mission of inspiring B2C enterprises to deliver amazing customer experiences by safeguarding people and assets, enabling seamless connectivity solutions, and uncovering business insights.   

The Jr. Systems Admin is a knowledgeable member of a team responsible for all aspects of the configuration and maintenance of servers and software solutions that meet or exceed business performance expectations. The position is responsible for installing, implementing, and maintaining a wide variety of software solutions as well as creating the necessary documentation for the installed software. The Jr. Systems Admin is responsible for software configurations, installations, maintenance, life-cycle, and monitoring. 

The member of this team will work closely with other team members to design and implement new software designs to fulfill customer requirements. 

• Work with Sr. System Admins and Network Engineer team to evaluate and implement new system solutions in support of customer goals 

• Ability to interpret requirements and translate those requirements into a functioning and manageable system solutions 
• Develop knowledge of various vendor capabilities and limitations 
• Develop documentation and training material on new and current system designs 
• Assist network engineers with questions related to ongoing support and change requests of system designs 
• Continuing education to maintain system admin expertise and knowledge of current and emerging technologies 

• Establish standards and procedures for best practices involving system and system admin related issues 

• System Admin background with a wide breath of knowledge in available protocols and services 
• Working knowledge of Linux, CentOS, RHEL, Oracle. 

• Working knowledge of Virtualization technologies. KVM/Ovirt preferred. 
• Working knowledge of monitoring technologies. Cacti, Nagios, Icinga, Zabbix. 
• Working knowledge of ELK stack. Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana. 
• Experience with Ansible, Saltstack, or other configuration management systems preferred. 
• Experience with data center operations of racking, cabling hardware devices. 

• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills. 
• Scripting/programming experience desired. Perl, Bash, and PHP preferred. 
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks independently 
• Ability to present complex networking ideas in a understandable and relate-able fashion 
• Keen attention to detail. 

• Proficient analytical and problem solving skills 
• Ability to translate the business and application needs into solution architecture requirements and design 
• Appreciation of risk management, change management, and configuration management 
• Ability to integrate various technologies into complete solutions 
• Minimum 2 years of experience managing and configuring linux systems 

Interface Systems will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a protected veteran, or individual with a disability. Such action shall include, but not be limited to the following: Employment, upgrading, demotion, or transfer, recruitment, or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; for rates of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection for training, including apprenticeship.    
   
Interface Systems will, in all solicitations or advertisements for employees placed by or on behalf of the Interface Systems, state that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a protected veteran, or individual with a disability.