Senior UNIX Systems Administrator

Introduction

Be part of the team that drives our company forward, transforming ideas into real-world tools and platforms that support the business and spur innovation.

What We Do: We calm the confusion of IT by guiding the connection between people and technology. If a customer is looking for a better way to manage their warehouse inventory, equip their workforce, or secure their data, we make it happen. All it takes is finding the right combination of tech hardware, software, cloud solutions, and support services. That’s what we do.

We’re the IT Department’s IT Department.

Who We Are: Our team is made stronger by a multitude of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. It’s what makes Connection unique—what drives us to innovate and create technology solutions that stand apart from the crowd. We’d love for you to be a part of that fabric, to share your ideas and experiences with a team that thrives on fresh thinking, creativity, and helping others.

Why You Should Join Us: You’ll find supportive teammates and a rewarding career at Connection—plus great benefits. We take pride in supporting employees with a total rewards package that provides financial, emotional, and physical resources for you and your family. Our compensation, 401k plans, medical insurance, and other benefits are progressive and competitive. We value the importance of our employees’ emotional well-being.

To support employees, we provide free therapy visits, mental health coaching and tools, and meditation resources. You’ll also enjoy a generous paid time off package that includes not only vacation and sick time, but also Wellness and Volunteer Time Off days.

The Senior UNIX System Administrator provides technical leadership and expertise related to UNIX and Linux server environments. The Sr System Administrator (Sys Admin) works under the general supervision and guidance of the Manager of UNIX Systems, and as a Senior member of the team is expected to utilize experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. The Sr Sys Admin is responsible for ensuring effective user support, system performance, change control, data security, data integrity, and daily maintenance and administration of the Unix and Linux operating systems, associated applications, and hardware and virtualization environments.

The Sr Sys Admin recommends and develops optimized and automated processes and systems to improve reliability, scalability, and reduce toil. The Sr Sys Admin participates in systems design and deployment, and be responsible for monitoring, audit, incident management, lifecycle management, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery. Responsibilities are primarily focused on virtualized environments such Power

VM, VMware, and Nutanix, and cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS. The Sr Sys Admin works closely with application development and support teams, Cloud Reliability Engineers, Platform Engineering, Database Administration, Network Technology, and Security/Compliance teams, to ensure that Connection’s applications are properly functioning and operating efficiently.

• Collaborates with other IT and business resources to scope, research, develop, and implement new designs. Helps determine application architecture, upgrade roadmap, planning and execution.
• Brings "best of breed" products and solutions to fruition with automation, reliability, scalability, and observability as core tenets.
• Develops standard processes and procedures to automate the deployment, troubleshooting, monitoring, and recovery of infrastructure leveraging "infrastructure as code" practices where appropriate.
• Develops tools to monitor systems and automate processes around the core system, application, file migration, data protection and other typical system administration functions.
• Establishes procedures for maintaining user accounts, assigns file permissions, and establishes password and account configurations in accordance with company policies and industry regulations.
• Creates and updates system architecture and standard operating procedure documentation.
• Considers future growth when proposing solutions and recognize that doing it right the first time is critical…