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Company Description
GovDelivery is the world's leading e-mail subscription management system designed specifically for the public sector. It empowers organizations to provide citizens with better service and access to relevant information by proactively delivering new information through e-mail, wireless alerts, and RSS. GovDelivery is used by over one hundred public sector organizations worldwide, including the FBI, Center for Disease Control, Social Security Administration, U.S. Departments of Defense, Labor, State, Agriculture, Transportation, and Commerce; U.K. Parliament; Washington, D.C.; Orange County, CA; the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis (MN); Tri-County Metropolitan District of Oregon (TriMet); and many other cities, counties, state agencies and transit authorities across the country.
These public sector organizations send millions of targeted e-mail messages using GovDelivery every month. In the past year, the company has doubled its client base and grown its workforce by over 60% to keep pace with its rapidly growing client base. GovDelivery is one of the fastest growing software companies in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The company received the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal's 2006 Fast 50 award, an award given to the 50 fastest-growing private companies in the Twin Cities. We are passionate about helping government entities around the world communicate more effectively with the public.
Our growth into the #1 sender of government-to-citizen e-mail is fueled by our commitment to client satisfaction and technological innovation. Join us if you want to be part of a fast-growing company where you can develop a rewarding career, work with top people, and make a difference in the world by improving government-to-citizen communication.
Position Summary
GovDelivery, Inc. is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to be part our mission-critical technical operations and software maintenance and support teams. These teams are core to the success of our business and will be responsible for administering, tuning, and scaling our Java-based web application and infrastructure. The system is deployed on RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Windows 2003 Servers running IIS 6.0, Apache 2.0 & 2.2, Tomcat 5.5, and Oracle 10g, in both virtualized and non-virtualized environments.
The Senior Systems Administrator will be responsible for both system administration and software maintenance and support - running the day-to-day administration of the production and staging environments as well as participating in development efforts. This includes hardware, network, server, and database sizing, monitoring, scaling, troubleshooting, planning, backups, as well as participation in the analysis, design, and implementation of new features and enhancements.
This position reports to the Director of Technical Operations and will be located at the GovDelivery office in downtown St. Paul.
Required Skills
The ideal candidate will meet most of the following requirements
- Five years of systems administration experience on Linux and Windows servers
- SAGE level III or IV
- Experience with VMware ESX Hosts and Guests
- Experience with highly available virtualized environments
- Experience in System Administration automation (standard builds and deployments)
- Experience in high volume and high capacity environments
- Experience with production-tier, high volume SQL compliant databases (ex: Oracle 9i or 10g)
- Experience with multiple web-server technologies (IIS, Apache, etc)
- LAN and WAN administration experience including monitoring, scaling, troubleshooting, tuning, routers, firewalls, switches, VPN, and storage area network (SAN)
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field; or equivalent work experience
- Smart, motivated, and creative
- Strong work ethic and the ability to work with minimal supervision
Preferred Skills
It is strongly desired that candidates also meet some of the following criteria:
- Ten or more years of system administration experience
- Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) business and software systems
- Experience with Enterprise Service Bus (Mule) application integration patterns
- Five or more years of network administration
- Experience with capacity planning
- Experience with Java application servers such as Apache Tomcat
- Exposure to and understanding of web services, WSDL, and service-oriented architecture
- Experience with HTTPS and load balancing of HTTPS web servers
- Experience developing for and administration of multiple relational databases (Oracle, Access, SQL Server, Informix, Sybase, etc)
- Experience developing consumer-facing products
- Two years of software development experience with Unix scripting, HTML, Java, JSP, ASP, and/or SQL
- Formal training as a Systems Administrator with strong skills in both Linux and Windows 2000/2003 Server administration
- Exposure to both client-side and server-side web application development
Compensation
Compensation package will be tailored to the candidate based on experience and skills. Benefits include paid vacation and holidays, medical and dental plan, and matching 401(k).
To apply for this position, send your resume to:
GovDelivery, Inc.
Attn: Director of Technical Operations, Brent Kastner
380 Jackson Street, Suite 550
Saint Paul, MN 55101
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careers@govdelivery.com
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