Senior Systems Administrator

To Apply: justine@zoominfo.com

Date Posted: Tuesday August 24, 2010

Company: ZoomInfo

Location: Waltham, MA

The Opportunity
•    Be a major player in a company that's on the cutting-edge of semantic technology
•    Solve interesting and challenging problems alongside a great team of engineers
•    Develop new skills as you push your knowledge - and our technology - to new levels
•    Work for a profitable, growing company that works with an impressive Fortune 500 client list

Welcome to ZoomInfo - the most comprehensive directory of business information on the Web.

We're changing the way business information is found and managed. And the Core Development Team sits at the heart of this effort. We employ cutting-edge NLP technologies to empower America's knowledge workers. With in-depth profiles on millions of business people and companies, ZoomInfo will find people you know and those you need to know. As a member of Zoom’s Technical team, you’ll be responsible for managing and improving the corporate infrastructure that enables thousands of customers see Zoom’s data on daily basis.

If you like working on tough problems - whether that’s how to build systems that handle millions of customer requests per day, or how to make sense of over a billion pieces of potentially correlated data - Zoom’s the right place for you!

The Responsibilities
•    Responsible for standard and advanced system administration/engineering duties. Including, but not limited to, installation, monitoring, backup & recovery, tuning, support of infrastructure & business applications and architecture.
•    Work effectively with team of System Administrators/Engineers to maintain uptime, consistency, scalability and performance while meeting business needs.
•    Work effectively with System Administrators/Engineers, DBA’s, Programmers, Project Managers, Business representatives, Vendors and/or Analysts to complete tasks in timely manner.
•    Know or quickly learn environment – technical and business, through initiative and direction from senior staff and/or peers.
•    Mentoring new and/or junior administrators.
•    Participate effectively on team and enterprise projects.
•    Potential architecture and research duties.
•    Demonstrate initiative through technical knowledge, interpersonal skills, business knowledge, organizational skills and professionalism.
•    Proactively take measures to stabilize, automate and make efficient the systems environment.

The Requirements
•    Advanced level experience in the areas of systems administration\engineering in a Windows Server 2003 environment.
•    Experience managing Exchange 2007 Mail Systems.
•    Demonstrated advanced application in the areas of hardware devices, operating systems, databases, applications and how they interrelate.
•    Demonstrated application of advanced system structures and commands. (TCP/IP, DNS, RAID, volume management, backup management/concepts etc).
•    Demonstrated application of OS and Shell/NT scripting and/or other languages.
•    Ability and motivation to learn quickly in dynamic environment.
•    Strong technical aptitude
•    Strong oral and/or written communication skills
•    Strong technical, organizational and/or interpersonal skills.
•    Ability to work independently.
•    Ability to consistently apply technical knowledge, communication, interpersonal and/or business skills.

Desirable Skills/Qualifications:
•    Knowledge of multiple operating systems, specifically Enterprise LINUX
•    Network switching, firewall, load balancing concepts.
•    SQL Server 2005 or newer
•    Experience in heterogeneous platform environments (Windows and LINUX)