Systems Administrator II (UNIX and Azure) - EXP.O NOW, IS Customer Experience

Company Description

Become a member of a global community! The international logistics industry is an integral piece of the global trade puzzle; we make the world go round. Global supply chain management is what we do, and at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics. Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 company, we employ over 19,000 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 350+ locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems.

Our Mission is to recruit, train, and retain the very best logistics and technical experts the world over. We love to promote from within - more than 50 percent of our employees have been at Expeditors for five years or more. Our high retention rate is influenced by a unique compensation program for positions that are more than just jobs - they're chances to grow, do what you love and build a career with us!

Job Description

How we describe our team

We are a multi-talented team who owns the infrastructure of our companies modern single page application, built as an external suite of tools for our customers, vendors, service providers, and employees. We are Configuration Engineers, System Administrators, Database Engineers, System Analysts, Network Engineers, Cybersecurity Engineers, Product Managers, Scrum Masters, and Team Managers working with systems based in the Cloud and On-Prem. We are Empowered as a team to make the right decisions to support our Application Development teams, with a focus on continuous learning, adaptation, and change to ensure our company is a technology leader in the Logistics industry. We provide stable and reliable environments and tools to allow for that change with minimal impact. We are the team ensuring quality for EXP.O NOW and all our other applications starts with the Systems and Supporting Infrastructure they run on. Even the best code will fail on a bad system. 

Why we like it here

Communication and Collaboration with team members willing to put in the time to do the work, but keep a focus on work life balance. Celebrating each other's accomplishments and trusting each other to provide honest feedback. Discussing new ideas and creating the path forward together. We strongly believe in a vision to create unlimited opportunities for our people through sustainable growth and strategic focus, inspiring our premier customer-focused logistics organization.

What are we building

System infrastructure for eleven Development teams in two countries for one single page application (SPA) utilizing RHEL, Azure Cloud, Ansible, GitLab and other technologies. This SPA called EXP.O NOW is our company's leading customer facing digital product. It drives our business, improves user experiences with modern upgrades, while staying modular and adaptable. We set expectations to deliver best in class results with timeliness to capture eager markets, looking for innovative approaches to overcome the challenges faced by Development, Operations, and Continuous Deployments.

Who we need and what is the System Administrator Job Description

Our System Administrator needs to be able to handle building and supporting our essential infrastructure both for on Prem (UNIX) and Cloud based (Azure) servers through support, troubleshooting, installation, and deployment. Be creative during collaboration on best practices and find ways to improve performance along with efficiency. Possess resolve for troubleshooting complex and simple issues alike. They will have a keen eye for recognizing inefficiency and take the initiative to simplify processes for their team and customers. A solid understanding of automation and infrastructure as code would be desired!

Primary Responsibilities

• Utilizing Infrastructure as Code best practices, develop, maintain, and enhance systems using Python, C, and bash
• Provide recommendations to management through research and review of recent industry solutions in various UNIX related technologies
• Perform system builds and hardware upgrades for UNIX servers with ability to utilize Ansible
• Diagnose and isolate operating system, server-side networking, and application-related problems; create workarounds or conduct system and disk recovery as necessary
• Create documentation and training material; provide training to others to ensure cross collaboration
• Provide production support for servers and data storage including after-hours on-call support
• Perform hardware maintenance, repairs, and replacements
• Enable and maintain system backups utilizing backup software and web-based monitoring tools

This position is on-site and will reside in the greater Seattle, WA. area at one of the following locations depending on availability. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate. Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.

• Downtown Seattle
• Federal Way
• Lynnwood
• Bellevue (Factoria)

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of Red Hat (RHEL) experience as IT support or similar role
• Working knowledge of Azure Cloud management resources
• Ability to Document procedures, standards, best practices
• Strong work ethic, interpersonal skills, and the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of individuals
• An aptitude for methodical and comprehensive troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of Active Directory and group policies
• Experience with Ansible and Ansible AWX
• Experience with automation frameworks & extensive programming/scripting experience (bash, C, Python)
• Experience installing, configuring, and supporting in-house & 3rd party software
• Knowledge of backup strategies and products
• Knowledge of DTrace and other diagnostic tools
• Experience using fiber attached storage in both SAN and point-to-point environments

Desired Qualifications

• Practiced in designing and implementing business continuity/disaster recovery and high availability plans
• Experience with Docker
• Experience troubleshooting network and connectivity issues
• Experience with cluster management software (VCS)
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar Containerization 
• Experience with Solaris and Solaris Zones
• Experience with Cohesity or CommVault backup solutions
• Expertise configuring and supporting Sun Volume Manager, Veritas Storage Foundation, and ZFS
• Working knowledge of Terraform scripting language

Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not transfer or sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (such as an H-1B visa) for this opportunity.

Additional Information

Expected base salary: $75,000 to $150,000

Expeditors offers excellent benefits:

• Paid Vacation (first year prorated based off month of hire then eligible for 15 days) 
• Holidays (10)
• Flexible Days (2)
• Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental & Vision Coverage
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)
• Commuter Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and Personnel Development Program
• Educational Assistance and Reimbursement
• Position is full time (40 hours per week) Monday through Friday 
• Business professional dress code

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO Guidelines.