Sr. System Admin - 2287

Kioxia • San Jose, CA

7h • $124,440 - $207,400 • Onsite

About The Position

KIOXIA America, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineer to join its IT team in the San Jose, California office. The role is for an experienced enterprise infrastructure and security engineer with extensive deployment experience and reports to the IT Manager. The engineer will build and maintain enterprise systems, help integrate new capabilities into operational processes, support projects, and provide expertise and escalation for complex system issues. The role may require availability outside normal business hours based on operational needs, as well as lifting and installing servers, network equipment, and other assets.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of combined enterprise-level system administration, networking, and security administration experience.
• Excellent technical knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, architecture, and frameworks, especially networking and security.
• In-depth understanding of the complexities and security challenges of large-scale distributed systems.
• In-depth experience conducting threat-modeling and risk assessments.
• At least 3 years of hands-on enterprise security experience.
• Experience with real-time security breach prevention; cybersecurity incident management, discovery, and remediation; enterprise security tool implementations; endpoint protection; log consolidation and monitoring; DMZ monitoring; regional security policies; data loss prevention; and mobile-device security.
• At least 5 years of Windows and Linux system administration experience, including patch management, authentication, virtualization, and NOC and monitoring.
• Hands-on knowledge of authentication systems such as LDAP, VPN, and SSO.
• Hands-on knowledge of M365 administration, including Entra ID, Intune, and Exchange Online.
• At least 5 years of enterprise networking experience, including routing, switching, next-generation firewalls, WAF, VLAN management, and sniffer tools.
• Experience with industry compliance standards and security best practices.
• Ability to lift more than 50 pounds and install servers, network equipment, and other assets.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and security, including GCP, AWS, Azure, or OCI.
• Subject-matter expertise in one or more of DNS, Active Directory, VMware, Windows Server management, security-tool deployment, or Windows security.

Responsibilities

• Perform server builds to support project requirements while meeting approved project budgets and timelines.
• Partner with the support team to integrate new capabilities into established operational processes, including backup monitoring and failover/disaster recovery.
• Detail project tasks and level of effort for project managers to include in project scope.
• Lead troubleshooting and project-completion efforts in a core area of expertise.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex systems issues.
• Proactively manage technologies in assigned areas and recommend service improvements, escalating issues that may affect service availability.
• Continuously implement operational best-practice improvements for monitoring and maintaining server health.
• Enforce compliance with document-retention, information-security, and system-administration best practices.
• Assist with audits and perform other duties as necessary.
• Install servers, network equipment, and other assets.

Benefits

• Opportunities for career growth and personal development training.
• Open-minded management that listens and responds to employee ideas, issues, and approaches.
• Flexible work-life balance, including generous PTO, a holiday shutdown, and flexible work options.
• Excellent medical and non-medical benefits.
• 401(k) matching.
• Pet insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed