Sr. Systems Administrator – Linux

Our purpose is to serve the nation with the single most trusted and capable health information network, built to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care.

What You’re Like You have a relentless desire to get stuff done.

A true champion of the collective objective, you’re energized by applying your expertise with a group of talented people to achieve something important, together.

You’re curious and passionate about new technologies and cutting-edge innovation, and you enjoy pulling together complex pieces of a puzzle to deliver a powerful and meaningful end-product.

You’re a translator between people and teams that don’t use the same lingo.

You don’t settle for short-term gratification-you’re into long-haul, incremental efforts that require endurance, patience and next-level collaboration.

What We’re Like Surescripts Network Technology and Operations (NT&O) is comprised of smart people who love to work towards a common goal, often delivering an innovative, industry-leading solution to the healthcare marketplace.

We pride ourselves on quality work that’s grounded in complete transparency and accountability.

When a project goes off the rails-and they do from time to time-we rally around each other to fix it and move on.

While our gratification is often the result of a months-long effort, we never tire of delivering a huge result that has an exponentially positive impact on the healthcare system-whether it’s quality, cost or patient safety.

OK, But Here’s What It’s Really Like Working at Surescripts NT&O, your thinking cap will always be on.

You’ll be challenged to make sure that disparate, cross-functional pieces come together to create a desired result.

You might swarm around some work if you think a milestone is about to be missed.

You’ll work to quickly understand diverse technologies, and establish and maintain relationships with groups who see and talk about things differently.

Job Summary The Senior System Administrator is responsible for architecting, implementing, testing, documentation and administration of physical and virtual systems infrastructure and enterprise technologies, ensuring high availability and security of business applications/systems/services.

The Senior System Administrator will stay abreast of emerging technology and industry best practices and lead various technology projects and initiatives.

This role defines enterprise-wide standards and practices for technologies related to systems administration and is responsible for documentation of processes and procedures necessary to meet and maintain SLAs and business objectives.

This role also is responsible for implementation of policies and procedures to ensure system provisioning, configuration and maintenance that are consistent with company goals, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements.

The Senior Systems Administrator is assigned to support Production & Datacenter networks, QA, Development and/or Corporate office networks.

Specific responsibilities vary by assigned group.

Responsibilities Participate in development of strategic goals and plans for systems/infrastructure and software relative to datacenter facilities, capacity planning and storage solutions.

Conduct cost benefit analysis of infrastructure systems and technology solutions.

Explore, plan, design, architect, and implement new technologies and solutions, physical and virtual, based on business needs (HA, performance SLAs, Scalable) and consistent with industry best practices Develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedures to ensure consistent provisioning, uptime, and performance.

Responsible for complete automation and auto provisioning of infrastructure (Virtual and Physical) Implement policies, procedures, and technologies to ensure system security through secure system access, monitoring and control.

Participate as necessary in routine security evaluations.

Install, configure, maintain, troubleshoot and performance-tune hardware, software, and peripheral devices.

Anticipate issues and employ mitigation strategies.

Ensure system templates/images, firmware and vendor-related patches are up-to-date.

Perform standard configuration, management, and maintenance tasks of all systems both physical and virtual (MS, VM, Unix, Linux).

Monitor, test, and tune system performance; preserve and provide system log files and performance metric data as needed.

Support Database Administration and Database Engineering teams as it pertains to database infrastructure Support application development teams throughout project lifecycles and integrate infrastructure builds with application deployment process.

Practice asset management, including maintenance of component inventory and related documentation Ensure secure user access and role validation processes Perform security audits leading to identification and mitigation of security threats to enterprise data.

Recommend and implement changes where necessary.

Document and perform regular system backups and restore and ensure that systems/assets can be recovered Recommend and execute modifications to systems to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance in accordance with established Change control protocol.

Ensure compliance with policies, standards, licensing agreements, configuration guidelines, and best-practices for maintaining regulatory compliance.

Conduct research on Windows, Linux and VMware related to HW and SW in support of procurement and system infrastructure development and enhancement efforts.

Create/provide required reports in response to business user needs Develop, document, and maintain OS system training materials and systems documentation for educating end users and new IT staff.

Conduct cross-training of peers, groups and stakeholders as needed.

Qualifications Basic Requirements: Bachelor degree in computer science, information sciences or related field or equivalent experience 5 years of systems administration experience 3 years of experience setting up and installing enterprise systems and technologies 3 years’ datacenter experience, including a 24/7 environment 3 years’ experience with automation and orchestration tools (e.g.

Ansible, Powershell, Python, Terraform, Packer) Preferred Qualifications: VMware certified Microsoft MCSE or RedHat RHCE certified Experience with Surescripts’ software Experience with basic development lifecycles (agile, GIT) We are currently working from home.

Offices are open to those who want to go in with health safety protocols in place.

This position will be eligible for a hybrid work schedule, where you will be able to split time between work from home and onsite work at our newly designed office.

Physical and Mental Requirements While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel (sometimes extensively), communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

Surescripts is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Surescripts participates in E-Verify.

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