Rhythm is looking for a Systems Engineer/Administrator in Irvine, United States. If you meet the requirements below, you will be eligible to apply via Digital Marketing Community.

Job Responsibilities:

• Cooperate with the director of technology to set organizational priorities and develop practical technological solutions and services based on business needs pertaining to systems administration.
• Manage the administration of internal, external, and cloud-based hosting environments like AWS.
• Produce issues/needs analysis and solution recommendation/implementation relative to systems administration needs.
• Oversee system and application performance and uptime, and be able to provide on-call, emergency or implementation support outside of normally scheduled hours as needed.
• Design and maintain hosting agreements, packages, and policies.
• Analyze system and application logs and identify potential issues with systems.
• Keep current on technology trends and identify technologies that can innovate and transform systems and operations to be more stable, secure, efficient, and performant.
• Conduct routine audits of systems and software, ensuring everything is working as expected.
• Apply operating system updates, security patches, and configuration changes.
• Install and configure new hardware and software within internal and external networks.
• Add, remove, or update user account information, reset passwords, etc..
• Answer technical queries and assisting users with various IT-related issues or tasks, complete incidents and tickets assigned to the system administration group within the designated time frames.
• Execute and manage internal and cloud-based disaster recovery systems and processes.
• Lead virtual and physical resources as required with an overall objective of improving the scalability, reliability, performance, and availability of the infrastructure to exceed company service level objectives.
• Aid in software configuration management activities including multiple continuous build environments, code repository administration, and code packaging and deployments to multiple developments, staging, and production environments.
• Improve and implement Information Technology architecture and best practices to ensure the stability and security of information systems.
• Associate with senior management to develop a company-wide information technology strategy and identify technology-enabled initiatives to meet the growing needs of the organization.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience performing systems administration duties.
• At least 3 years of experience at a top digital agency in a systems administrator, network administrator, IT manager role or similar.
• Effective experience with AWS Console for management of AWS services.
• Proficient experience with AWS CLI for automating administrative tasks.
• Familiarity with configuring and using AWS monitoring services for early warnings and effectively administering the EC2 environment.
• Expert knowledge of network connectivity configuration and network security (using Security Groups, keys, etc.).
• Deep knowledge of AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management).
• Demonstarted understanding of disaster recovery and cloud backup/restoration processes.
• Strong experience working with Amazon EC2, VPC, S3, SES, RDS, Route 53, etc..
• Solid skills in administering both Windows and Linux systems.
• Proficient with virtualization via VMWare ESXi and/or containerization via Docker/LXC.
• Proven track record in working with Microsoft SQL Server, MSSQL, or other relational databases.
• Outstanding knowledge of network security and administration, including firewalls, routers, switches, etc..
• Solid experience with Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), and/or Web Application Firewalls (WAF).
• Effective experience monitoring and configuring performance/uptime monitoring tools like Pingdom and NewRelic.
• Proficient experience and knowledge of version control systems like Git, TFS, Subversion, etc..
• Familiarity with Windows Active Directory.
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly.
• Ability to interact with clients in a professional, articulate manner.