Systems Administrator Senior

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Job Description

We are FIS. Our technology powers the world's economy and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you're ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we'd like to know: Are you FIS?

About the role:
As a Systems Administrator, your team will maintain the critical server infrastructure that allows us to advance the way the world pays, banks and invests. You'll be responsible for deploying new technologies as well as ensuring system performance.

About the team:

The Wealth and Retirement Technology team is a world class group of technologists, engineers and data center support staff driven to provide the best-in-class services for our clients and products. Our talented team is especially supportive, respectful, passionate, welcomes collaboration and is most of all, fun!

• We are an experienced, customer-focused, flexible provider of infrastructure outsourcing services to over 1000 global financial institutions.

• We deliver value through cost-effective, quality services so that customers can focus on their core business.

• We achieve cost-effective solutions by leveraging common infrastructure and maximizing resource utilization.

• We achieve service quality through management commitment to customer service and operational excellence guided by the ITIL framework.

What you will be doing:

Responsible for maintaining, deploying and performance analysis for new UI / Services product offering developed internally. Application resides in Gen3 windows and AIX hosted environments.Must be highly motivated, a strong self-starter and an application engineer with innovative, proven problem-solving skills for complex multi-tiered applications. The individual will interface with the Development organization, Project Managers, Professional Services, Network, Security, & Server OS support teams.

• Deployment of Global Plus and surrounding products on new virtual and physical servers.

• Deploying and maintaining Global Plus in UAT & production, pre-prod and test and performance environments

• Work with engineers located locally and overseas

• Open technical cases with hardware & software vendors to resolve problems

• Analytical problem-solving skills for complex multi-tiered applications

• Ability to trouble shoot through use of wire shark and browser development tools

• Broad technology knowledge with automation software

• Diagnostic work to get to root cause of any issues

• Providing feedback to Development on needed improvements on serviceability

• Willingness to participate in non-standard working-time models to include: Monday - Friday 24 hours/day, Weekends 24 hours/day

• Participation in Annual budgeting / recommendations of HW and SW for following year procurement, obtains quotations from internal teams or Vendors in support of this activity.

• Manages and executes critical Disaster Recovery tasks for AIX environments and replicated storage during bi-annual Disaster Recovery Exercises or during a real disaster.

• Has Linux system administration experience.

• Debugs system and network issues.

• Well versed in Public Key / Private Key concepts (SSH), etc..

• Proposes and implements system enhancements that will improve reliability and performance of system.

• Monitors usage and performance.

• Trains personnel on system usage.

• Strong problem determination and remediation skills in a team environment- Troubleshoots server, software and hardware issues.

• Assists with recommending, scheduling, and implementing system hardware and/or software upgrades or repairs.

• Researches, evaluates, and recommends software and hardware products.

• Supports Web access and electronic messaging services and maintains a secure systems environment.

• Other duties as needed.

What you will need:

• Knowledge of AIX and Linux operating systems and related utilities and hardware

• Knowledge of storage management, TCP/IP, network monitoring and tools and technical writing principles and practices

• Knowledge of IBM MQ Messaging

• Effective analytical, problem solving, installation and maintenance skills

• Ability to work independently as well as within a team

• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, vendors, clients and public

• A bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or the equivalent experience.

Added bonus if you have:

Experience with following products helpful:

• Autosys experience.

• Ansible and DevOps automation experience.

• Octopus - Automation tool to deploy releases, patches etc.

• Sisense - Reporting tool for data analytics (similar to Oracle BI)

• Decisions - Workflows

• Informatica - Data load / transformation tool

• Expert in Unix shell scripting

What we offer you:
At FIS, you can learn, grow and make an impact in your career. Our benefits include:

• Flexible and creative work environment

• Diverse and collaborative atmosphere

• Professional and personal development resources

• Opportunities to volunteer and support charities

• Competitive salary and benefits

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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