Staff Systems Administrator Jobs

The Opportunity:

• Maintain and extend our system monitoring platform
• Join a team creating the next generation of wealth management software
• Work with a variety of new technologies with opportunity to learn and expand your areas of expertise
• Maintain up to date documentation of all configuration items
• Troubleshoot and resolve any system issues as they occur
• Manage the execution of our OS hardening, patching, and security scanning programs
• Ensure high availability, security, and backup of all production platforms
• Lead our systems/network administration working with both legacy on-prem clients, and our modern cloud infrastructure
• Partner with leadership to outline IT operational best practices
• Serve as a technical expert and advisor in the area of system administration for complex operating systems
• Work closely with Cybersecurity to lead external audit compliance
• Oversee technical design, planning, implementation, and the highest level of performance tuning and recovery procedures for mission critical enterprise systems

About You:

• Available to work during non-regular office hours in order to support a 24/7 production environment
• Able to plan, organize and document complex, detailed system design projects and to configure systems to be consistent with institutional policies/procedures
• Learns quickly and tackle new technologies and projects with courage and tenacity
• Service-minded and organized thinker with strong communication and customer service skills
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership
• Team-player who is willing to assist with emerging problems quickly and proactively, and who responds to emergency situations calmly and effectively
• Enjoy working in a fast paced environment with changing needs and requirements

Ideal Experience (Don't worry, we don't expect you to have everything on this list, but the more the merrier! ):

• Demonstrated ability to establish IT best practices around OS hardening, patching, and security scanning
• Extensive hands-on experience in AWS infrastructure and services including but not limited to EC2, IAM,VPC, S3, ELB, EBS, RDS, Route 53, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, etc
• Familiar with Cisco network equipment
• Familiar with on-prem storage, such as NetApp, etc
• Deep experience with Windows server (2012/2019) or equivalent
• Expert-Level Linux administration skills
• Design and implementation of IAM policies/technologies including Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), SAML, web Single Sign-on (SSO), Auth0 and related authentication technologies, BeyondTrust
• Hands on work with cloud provisioning automation (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc)
• Deep experience and expertise building scalable and highly available complex infrastructure systems and application architectures for both on-premise and cloud-based services

Nice to have:

• Able to contribute to network administration including but not limited to DNS, VPCs, Subnets, Load balancing, API Gateway, Reverse Proxies, etc)
• Experience managing Active Directory
• Scripting skills in languages such as PERL, Bash, Python, etc
• Understanding of network protocols, troubleshooting, and administration (basic TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, SMTP, LDAP, DHCP, and DNS, NFS)
• Implementation experience in the use of optimization, automation, and containerization tools such as Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Terraform in an on-premise and/or public cloud environment
• Experience with access logging, centralized logging, and monitoring tools such as ELK, InfluxData, Grafana, Splunk, AlertLogic, etc
• Experience with enterprise-grade storage devices and hypervisors (NetApp, TinTri, XenServer, and/or VMware)
• Hands-on experience with security configuration (Encryption, KMS, IAM, SSL/TLS, WAF, Security Groups, NACLs, etc)

Location:

• While MyVest is in a hybrid (office and work-from-home) work model, this role is required to be in the office frequently. MyVest will fill this position in the San Francisco Bay Area only.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary for this role will be between $165,000 to $185,000. Placement in this range depends upon a variety of factors including prior relevant experience and skill set.
• The range listed above is just one component of MyVest's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation includes an annual bonus, long-term incentives, and program-specific stipends.

• 401(k) match
• Professional coaching program
• Subsidized financial wellness program
• Flexible time off
• Multiple mental health programs
• Monthly wellness dollars
• 10 weeks paid parental leave
• Generous coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance premiums — for you AND your family
• Tons of perks
• Volunteer time off
• Robust corporate matching program
• Annual professional development stipend