Senior System Administrator

Fincore Ltd is a leading expert in real-time transaction and information management systems. We specialise in cloud-based enterprise applications and we enable large and complex organisations to make good, consistent decisions by helping them interrogate complex data sets and control their mission critical business processes.

For our office in Belgrade, Serbia we are looking for:

Senior System Administrator

Key Qualifications:

• Educated to at least first degree level in Computer-Science, Electronics, Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Mechanical engineering, Technology, Management or similar
• Strong working knowledge of Redhat / Centos / Oracle Enterprise Linux.
• Strong working knowledge of Windows 2003 upwards
• Strong experience with web server technology on Linux and Windows platforms
• Load balancing management including setup and configuration
• Strong working knowledge of TCP/IP
• Experience in a multi-site environment with a user base of 500+ and 600+ servers
• VMware/Virtualisation knowledge/hands on experience including VMware SRM
• Windows DNS and Bind Experience.
• A good understanding of Windows clustering including Exchange and SQL.
• A good working knowledge of Application Servers – File/Print/Mail/DNS/NTP/DHCP/Antivirus.
• Microsoft Active Directory Experience.
• BES Management
• Weblogic/OSB deployment and management tasks
• Oracle Virtual Manager (OVM)
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Desirable:

• HP/Cisco Server Hardware (including Lights out Management).
• Tomcat, JBoss familiarity
• Storage Administration – EMC and HDS

Interpersonal skills:

• Excellent English including written and spoken skills.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• Able to project manage work
• Able to take ownership of support issues and progress through resolution
• Multitasking work, with more critical issues at same moment, ordering by priorities and escalation of critical
• Demonstrated ability to work calmly and methodically under pressure, when diagnosing and escalating problems
• Proactive attitude toward problems
• Demonstrated motivation, flexibility, dynamic, ambitious and ‘can do’ attitude.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; good phone skills
• Ability to build relationships and liaise successfully with other teams.
• Able to follow instructions and comply to a change management process.
• Keeping high standards in work
• Previous experience within the online sector highly desirable.

Your Responsibilities:

• Facilitate decision-making, issue resolution and consensus with the London based team
• Promote quality on all activities, acting as a role model for all midlle/junior level team members
• Provide technical support on a 24x7 rotation basis for IT production systems.
• Assist with implementation and monitoring solutions to ensure 24x7 availability.
• Assist with projects on the IT systems from end-to-end. This includes implementing an agreed design to time & budget and providing good quality documentation for ongoing maintenance and support.
• Proactively implement practices and procedures to avoid problems before they occur.
• Undertake implementation, configuration, coordination, control, maintenance, troubleshooting, security, usage monitoring and development of specialized system procedures.
• Provide basic systems security administration functions
• Implement and perform monitoring and system resource management, including CPU usage, disk usage, tape backup system.
• Implement / Perform systems backups and recovery procedures.
• Write or modify basic scripts to resolve performance problems.
• Maintain system documentation and logs.
• Perform/assist in troubleshooting and diagnosing production problems.
• Maintain application security, recommend and administer best practices
• Provide monitoring and primary response and intervention for information technology related security incidents and violations.
• Manage, recommend and implement enhancements to the Office Domain (AD Security / Policies, Upgrades).
• Manage, recommend and implement improvements to the email infrastructure (MX Servers, SPAM, AntiVirus, and Exchange), real-time blocking lists, and overload / mailshot protection and also cloud based exchange solutions.
• Assist with the Management of the DNS Infrastructure - for all offices, and for production (Internal & External Support).
• Assist with the management of monitoring infrastructure & alerting tools.
• Assist with the management of VMware infrastructure.
• Assist with the management of load balancers - Ensuring that Sites are correctly load-balanced and monitored.
• Assist with the management of Oracle Fusion Middleware, including Weblogic and Oracle Service Bus.
• Help manage the existing OVM estate.
• Assist with storage administration including the EMC VNX5300s and HDS AMS2100s.
• Protect GVC systems from third-party failure

We offer:

• Positions with permanent status
• International travel
• Remuneration and social insurance on full salary
• Trainings
• Great multinational team with experienced and helpful colleagues

Let us know if you want to play by sending your resume (and whatever else you might see fit)

Sign-on bonus pool has been established for this opportunity and will be distributed based on experience and background relevance

Deadline for applications: 19.06.2013.