Systems Administrator - Network Operations Center | Next Jump Inc. | Boston, MA

Systems Administrator - Network Operations Center | Next Jump Inc. |  Boston, MA

• Title: Systems Administrator - Network Operations Center
• Job Type: Full-time
• Locations: Boston, MA

Job Description:

Next Jump is looking for talented engineers to join our site operations team. This team operates the Next Jump NOC and Datacenters and is responsible for ensuring uptime across all of Next Jump's websites.
Qualified individuals will enjoy working in highly technical environments, with a hands-on approach. Candidates should possess a mix of skills in Linux, Windows, and Network Administration. You will be part of a team directly responsible for Next Jump's uptime along with end-to-end performance and reliability of Next Jump's user-facing services. NOC web operations strives for stability by continuously enhancing the monitoring and response infrastructure and serve as a hub for all other technical and development operations teams. In this highly visible role, you will be responsible for ensuring that users can always reach and use all of the services under your team's care.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure 24x7 stability and uptime, resolve service impacts and handle client requests in a fast-paced environment
• Ensure compliance of systems through various tasks and remediation
• Ensure that security policies are implemented through the use of network and OS level security
• Setup, configure and maintain network & systems infrastructure
• Work closely with the applications developers to configure, manage and implement various physical and virtual application environments
• Assist in researching and implementing new technologies to improve existing environments and be proactive in problem mitigation
• Act as both an external and internal facing point of contact to facilitate handling of problem reports and escalate technical issues and communicate network status
• Maintain, monitor and implement the security infrastructure
• ETL - Data Loading

Requirements:

• BS/MS degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Networking & Systems Administration, Telecom/Network Management, or related field
• Familiarity with Linux system administration
• Solid understanding of IP networking
• Solid scripting skills in Shell, PHP, Perl or Python
• SQL, PHP or JBoss knowledge a plus
• Experience with Configuration Management tools (Puppet, Chef, Spacewalk, Graphite) a plus
• Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Ganglia) a plus
• Technical troubleshooting and performance tuning knowledge a plus
• Knowledge of Windows server 2003 & 2008 and VMware in a SAN/WAN/LAN environment is a plus
• Cisco, VMware, Red Hat, Dell, and/or Microsoft certifications are a plus

Company Summary:

Founded in 1994, Next Jump is positioned to become the universal loyalty platform for the internet, leveraging proprietary technology engineered over the last decade. The Company already has the largest footprint in providing rewards and loyalty programs to more than 90,000 corporations, organizations, and affinity groups including 70% of the Fortune 1000 and the largest membership clubs in the country, including AARP, NEA and AAA. Next Jump's WOWPoints is one of the fastest growing virtual currencies due to its cash-like value and flexibility. Consumers are able to earn and burn WOWPoints through all Next Jump powered marketplaces, including OO.com, the Company's first direct to consumer site. Next Jump was founded by Charlie Kim and is based in New York City with offices in Boston, San Francisco and London.


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