Systems Administrator (DevOps Focus)
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DataScan is a provider of wholesale and audit intelligence in the automotive industry. DataScan's solutions are the most comprehensive in the industry, providing banks, independent finance companies, and captive financial institutions with clarity critical to their success - helping them manage risk while increasing productivity and profits. All of our solutions are web-based and delivered from our state-of-the-art DataScan-managed data centers. To learn more about our products: https://vimeo.com/251178810Our Information Technology (IT) team offers the opportunity to join an innovative and collaborative team focused on the implementation, configuration, integration, maintenance and operation of our hosting services. Our System Administrator works closely with a small team of dedicated IT associates in support of our infrastructure and reports to our IT Infrastructure Manager.To learn more about our products: https://vimeo.com/251178810
Technology Experience Required:- Intermediate to expert operational and administrative understanding of Linux operating systems
- Working experience with point to point tcp dump initialization and diagnosis
- Working experience with hypervisors
- Working experience with storage administration
- Working experience with backup and data protection practices
- Working experience with container orchestration and administration systems
- Working understanding of network routing and protocols
- Management and administration of development, test, and production environments.
- Tier 2 or 3 escalation point for problem resolution (on-call rotation)
- Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning
- Administer and automate Infrastructure maintenance and patching
- Curiosity to interrogate emerging technologies
- Automating and streamlining operations and processes
- Experience with a variety of open source technologies and tools
- Strong grasp of automation tools
- Contribute to the released product software by developing installation, deployment and management scripts
- Network administrative and management skills (firewalls, load balancers, DNS, NAT)
- Version Control (System) utilizing GIT in a team development environment
- Understanding and efficiency in collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
- Working collaboratively across teams to ensure consistent and performant approaches across all environments
- Interacting directly with client project team members and operational staff to support live customer deployments
- Troubleshooting and resolving issues in development, test and production environments
- Supporting cloud deployments as needed
- Strong problem-solving skills
- A passion for technology and technology innovation
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivilant work experience
- 2+ years relevant work experience in application development or operations support
- Background in Linux / Unix Administration
- Experience with automation / configuration management using workflow tools
- Provision, configure and maintain cloud resources including server instances, load balancers, security groups, DNS management and certificates
- A working understanding of programming and scripting languages (Ansible, Python, PowerShell)
- Shell scripting (bash) skills are essential
- Excellent written communication, problem solving and process management skills
- Desire to work in a fast paced, evolving, growing, dynamic environment
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations to maintain five-nines service availability
- Experience with systems and IT operations
- Understanding and focus on business outcomes
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