System Administrator

Built from the ground up for IoT and proven at scale, Aeris IoT Services are based on the broadest technology stack in the industry, spanning connectivity up to vertical solutions. As veterans of the industry, we know that implementing an IoT solution can be complex, and we pride ourselves on making it simpler.
Aeris’ technology advantage starts with the purpose-built IoT core network, AerCore, which is built on hundreds of person-years of development, resulting in over 50+ patents. Importantly, Aeris maintains full control of the underlying technology within AerCore, enabling implementation of new market leading features and unique solutions that will continue to benefit businesses and organizations across the globe. AerCore works across CDMA, GSM, and LTE networks globally. A few things to know about us:
A few things to know about us:

- **We put our customers first**. When making decisions, we always seek to do what is right for our customer first, our company second, our teams third, and individual selves last.
- **We do things differently.** As a pioneer in a highly-competitive industry that is poised to reshape every sector of the global economy, we cannot fall back on old models. Rather, we must chart our own path and strive to out-innovate, out-learn, out-maneuver and out-pace the competition on the way.
- **We walk the walk on diversity. **We’re a brilliant and eclectic mix of ethnicities, religions, industry experiences, sexual orientations, generations and more - and that’s by design. We see diverse perspectives as a core competitive advantage.
- **Integrity is essential.** We believe in doing things well - and doing them right. Integrity is a core value here: you’ll see it embodied in our staff, our management approach and growing social impact work (we have a VP devoted to it). You’ll also see it embodied in the way we manage people and our HR issues: we expect employees and managers to deal with issues directly, immediately and with the utmost respect for each other and for the Company.
- **We are owners. **Strong managers enable and empower their teams to figure out how to solve problems. You will be no exception, and will have the ownership, accountability and autonomy needed to be truly creative.

As Aeris continues to expand, we are growing our Network Operations team. As **Sr / System Administrator**, you will deliver design, implementation and management of Data centre infrastructure. Deployment and management of Servers, OS, Virtualization and VMs. Infrastructure management tools for Inventory, Patching, Operations and integration with NOC tools. You would be responsible for security of infrastructure and server hardening.
**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Experience in working with Sun server platforms and Sun Solaris OS
- Experience in Linux distributions, especially Red Hat, CentOS and ubuntu
- Experience in VMware, KVM and Xen
- Hand-on experience in managing EMC Unity and XtremIO SAN storage
- Experience of Cisco MDS SAN switch configurations
- Hands-on experience in managing Cisco UCS server platform and HP DL380 platform
- Experience in troubleshooting LDAP, DNS, NTP, SNMP issues
- Schedule maintenance windows with analysis of customer impact, downtime, and MOP including rollback procedure.
- Conduct server security audits and redundancy testing on a regular basis
- Develop automation scripts/tools for network operation tasks and support simulated test environment
- Meet customer KPI expectations in network services
- Produce weekly reports with the status updates, dependency and escalations.

**What we look for in you**:

- You have a Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of professional experience in service provider networks or a large enterprise network environment and have Sun Solaris certification or higher
- You are a self-starter, organized, attentive to details and excellent in verbal and written communication
- You enjoy working in a collaborative environment - leading/working with our global team

**Things that will set you apart**:

- You have experience or knowledge of patching and inventory management tools.
- You have experience in network automation, NFV/VM, or EMC SAN, VMware,
- You have hands-on experience with Google Cloud, Azure or AWS
- You are well-versed with using scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or Bash
- Aeris walks the walk on diversity. We are a brilliant mix of varying ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages and professional/personal/military experiences - and that’s by design. Different perspectives are essential to our culture, innovative process and competitive edge. Aeris is proud to be an equal opportunity employer._

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