Position: Senior UNIX Systems Engineer
Supervisor: IT Director

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES
XIFIN, Inc ® provides a web-based application that provides an accounts receivable and financial management solution for medical laboratories. We are the leader in laboratory billing and A/R and have been recognized by awards like Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50, AeA, Inc 5000, and others. Our Software as a Service (SaaS) model allows us to use best-of-breed technologies to benefit our customers.

We are seeking a Senior UNIX Systems Engineer to design, build, and support the processes and equipment in our production and development environments. This role will work with equipment and solutions such as Sun hardware, Solaris 10 containers/zones, EMC storage, Brocade SAN switches, Veritas Clustering, Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls, and Microsoft Windows. This position will “own” the production environment, and will share ongoing support with other members of the team. This person will also be heavily involved in infrastructure projects that constantly improve our environment.

CHARACTERISTICS:
 Self-starter, motivated
 Can work in a team as well as complete projects unsupervised
 Excellent proactive skills such as helping spot and scope problems, gather requirements, identify and evaluate solutions, deploy solutions, and support them.
 Excellent reactive skills (“fire fighting”)
 Understands, documents, and can build appropriate processes and procedures as well as deploy software to support them.

DUTIES:
 System monitoring, performance analysis, and tuning
 Systems support for our primary applications
 Operating system upgrades and patch management
 Security compliance and auditing for all systems
 Script creation and maintenance for automation of routine tasks.
 Management and maintenance of production and DR systems
 Backup management using Veritas, Net Backup, Datacenter and Business Server. Also restore data when required
 Build and maintain baselines (OS, Network, etc.)
 General systems administration, including resolving end-user issues on an as-needed basis, including helping cover Windows desktop questions as needed
 Support of Customer Service for resolution of Client problems/issues (includes on-call duties)
 Prioritize and handle requests from other groups
 Hardware installation, upgrades, and migration

REQUIRED SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:
 BS degree or equivalent technical experience
 Strong troubleshooting and deductive reasoning skills.
 Eight or more years experience as a Unix Systems Administrator
 Participate in rotating on-call schedule to resolve production issues
 Strong knowledge of Systems Administration
 Solaris 10 strongly preferred
 Experience with Veritas Cluster Server

DESIRABLE:
 EMC or HDS experience
 SAN experience
 Datacenter experience strongly preferred
 Scripting experience (perl, shell)
 Sun, Cisco, EMC, or other Certifications