Database Administrator Host Services
About The Position
Under the direction of the Senior Director of Core Banking Operations, the Systems Administrator will analyze the company’s operating applications and infrastructure to provide optimal performance and integration of resources supporting the technological environment. They will modify, code, test, debug, and document systems, operating systems, programs, compilers, tools, and utilities. Additionally, they will research and study new products, test for compatibility, evaluate, and make recommendations for purchase. Navanta is the trusted technology and services partner for community financial institutions, unifying critical systems, security, cloud infrastructure, and support into one seamless, purpose-built experience. With more than 35 years of banking expertise and a deep belief in the community banking mission, our purpose is to empower community bankers and our people to thrive together. Our engaged culture is strongly influenced by the passion our team members bring while serving community financial institutions and their communities. We believe in encouraging confidence in each other and delivering solutions that make our customers confident with us. To that end, we seek out problem solvers, creative thinkers, and engaged individuals who thrive in a fast-paced yet supportive environment. We believe engaged employees lead to loyal customers, which in turn drives results for our business. We are caring, intense, and approachable, and have a lot of fun along the way.
Requirements
- Working knowledge of security practices relating to workstations, servers, internet, etc.
- Ability to use troubleshooting techniques to resolve Fiserv host environment and underlying infrastructure.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Suite of products; Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Desire to continually improve and contribute to our purpose of empowering community bankers and our people to thrive together
- 3-5 years’ experience with application/system support
- SQL experience and database administration is required
- Working knowledge of Progress OpenEdge databases is required
- Linux, Unix, or AIX operating system experience is required
Nice To Haves
- Fiserv Precision experience is strongly desired
- Fiserv Premier experience a plus
- IBM i operating system experience is a plus
- Previous experience in the banking industry a plus
Responsibilities
- Provide support for assigned applications, ensuring high availability
- Provide hands-on and remote troubleshooting and problem resolution
- Drive efforts to proactively identify application or system issues improving availability and performance
- Ensure application Service Level Agreements are exceeded by maintaining ownership of incidents through resolution
- Complete projects, coordinate with team members and provide status updates
- Track problems and bugs with vendors and communicate as resolutions are implemented
- Responsible for vendor management; system OS, software, & infrastructure upgrades; gathering quotes; investment proposals; and change management.
- Responsible for providing financial information for budgeting and helping to forecast future spending needs.
- Coordinate the prompt diagnosis and resolution of infrastructure issues that have an impact on the production environment
- Manage demands of deadlines that are responsible for all host services implementations and conversion-related activities
- Perform troubleshooting techniques to solve problems, working with appropriate vendors for resolution
- Stay current on security-related issues and analyze the impact on Navanta; making recommendations for security management and monitoring processes
- Generate and maintain virtual servers; perform cloning tasks and snapshots and monitors performance for assigned systems and applications.
- Responsible for appliance/workstation/server security for supported systems and software.
- Responsible for backup strategy, documentation, and verification
- Responsible for replication/high-availability strategy, documentation, and verification
- Ensure vulnerabilities are managed with priority and aligned with the Navanta vulnerability policy.
- Perform all duties with a high level of change management aligned with Navanta change management policy.
- Systems’ performance and capacity monitoring and reporting
- Assist in the installation, maintenance and support of company servers
- Actively participate in special projects and strategic initiatives based on our priorities for the year
- Perform other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
