Senior System Administrator

Voloridge Investment Management was founded by David Vogel in 2009 and is based in Jupiter, FL. We incorporate advanced data science and mathematics into our systematic, market neutral investment strategies to exploit alpha opportunities we consider unique in financial markets. Our firm is comprised of award-winning predictive modelers, experienced data analysts, advanced technologists, and a group of dynamic business professionals.

Under the general direction of IT leadership, the Senior System Administrator performs a variety of technical tasks in the area of computer systems and networks.

Summary Of Job Functions

• Participate in supporting and maintaining all Server Operating Systems and services
• Maintain system patching, ensure current backups, analyze systems for performance tuning
• Perform root cause analysis on incidents on supported systems hardware and OS/software
• Increase/improve automation in the areas of Virtual Machine provisioning & configuration
• Data center operations - rack and stack new servers & storage, cable management for storage and networking
• Ability to administer cloud portals including Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Set up and configure new cloud-based environments; must be able to recommend best practices
• Knowledge of lift and shift migration techniques for workloads from on-premises to cloud
• Collaborate with research and infrastructure teams on high-performance and high-density compute environments

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or another related field
• 7+ years of progressive systems administration experience in enterprise environments
• 5+ years administering an Enterprise Virtualization product (VMware vSphere preferred)
• 5+ Years Cloud Knowledge (AWS and/or Azure plus M365)
• Experience with Backup replication, air-gap strategies, and restore validation (Commvault preferred)
• Setup and maintenance experience with Enterprise storage platforms (SAN/NAS) - Pure Storage, Dell/EMC Isilon, or similar
• Ability to work in Jupiter Office 4+ Days per week (off-hours availability required for planned maintenance windows)

Preferred Skills And Previous Experience 

• Experience with VMware Horizon or another VDI solution
• Active/active (hot/hot) data center architecture - RPO/RTO planning, workload distribution, and failover testing
• Zerto/VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) or equivalent - automated failover and failback orchestration across data centers
• Data center systems management - Dell hardware experience preferred
• Windows Server / Active Directory experience
• Linux experience (Debian/Ubuntu preferred)
• High Performance Computing (HPC) - cluster design, NUMA tuning, low-latency networking
• Containerization experience (Kubernetes or Docker)
• Security-conscious approach to systems administration - hardening, least privilege, patch discipline, and familiarity with endpoint protection platforms (CrowdStrike preferred)
• Network security tooling experience - Zscaler or similar

Compensation And Benefits

• Highly competitive base salary
• Profit sharing bonus
• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• 401k

Additional Information

Voloridge Investment Management is an SEC registered investment advisor and an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.