Senior Cloud Systems Administrator

Summary

Join Aperia Solutions, a leader in SaaS solutions for the Payments and Compliance industries. Aperia is a Texas-based fintech and managed consultancy firm that creates custom SaaS applications and other software-based solutions for the payments, banking, and processing industry. Founded in 1999, Aperia offers business intelligence, risk management, compliance, and customer intelligence platforms. With offices in Dallas, Washington DC, and Vietnam, Aperia is a fast-paced, global organization that strives to improve efficiency in compliance, risk, and customer service operations. Aperia’s clients include banks, processors, payment facilitators, merchant service providers, independent sales organizations, and government entities. A career at Aperia promises a great challenge, culture, and opportunities to forge your own path.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot IIS issues 
• Configure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) 
• Providing technical support to staff and customers 
• Write code to automate system architectures 
• Working on custom special projects as assigned 
• Network documentation, maintenance, support 
• Understands, documents, and supports the underlying business processes, workflows, data and application platforms that depend on Microsoft services 
• Take ownership of issues, with a sense of urgency, and use sound judgment to resolve within service levels 
• Design, implement and troubleshoot Azure Site Recovery, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), automation of deployment 
• Firewall maintenance and support 
• On-Premises and remote datacenter hardware documentation, installation, support, maintenance 
• Backup documentation and maintenance 
• Engage peers in accordance with processes and procedures to create complete solution designs 
• Hyper-V and SQL failover clustering support 
• Active Directory, internal and public DNS, GPO and security modeling 

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Microsoft WSUS and server patching 
• Manage Engine administration 
• Windows Admin Center (WAC) administration 
• Strong understanding of SSL/TLS encryption and certificate management 
• Windows 11 & Windows Server 2016+ practical experience 
• Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization and clustering 
• SAN (storage area network) experience 
• Good understanding of DNS, networking, IP 
• Azure experience 
• Some weekend and off-hours work 
• Limited travel and server datacenter familiarity 
• Experience a plus: NewRelic, Solarwinds Orion, Symantec EPM, Splunk 
• F5 Big-IP or equivalent load balancer experience 
• SSL and encryption knowledge 
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE or similar) 
• Azure Administrator Associate (AZ103) 
• Azure AD Back-up and restore 
• Strong working knowledge of Windows Server installation, patching and maintenance 
• Strong experience with Kubernetes 
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Services 
• Working knowledge of SQL server – MS SQL, MySQL, Postgres 
• Experience with PowerShell, Bash, python 
• Strong working knowledge of Linux and common open source utilities 
• 5+ years of experience with Systems administration of cloud and on-premise environments