About Softek
Softek's mission is to deliver customer excellence in everything we do, delivering best in-class service and providing scalable, secure solutions for financial firms across the World. We pride ourselves on understanding the unique needs of our clients and providing solutions that drive business success.
Through consistently evolving our technology and operations, alongside strategic acquisitions, Softek has maintained consistent growth over the past 15 years. We are enthused for the future and continuing the journey of growth and successfully delivering for our clients.
Why Choose Softek
At Softek, nothing is more important to us than our commitment to our people. As a fast-growing company, we provide opportunities to develop at pace, giving you the chance to evolve and enhance your skills in the direction you want. Our positive work environment encourages collaboration, integrity and personal growth. The company has seen tremendous growth through mergers and acquisitions, ensuring a dynamic path forward for people in our teams.
What Softek Can Offer You
Join us in our Denver office as a Private Cloud Engineer. We offer significant healthcare benefits and a robust 401k plan to secure your future. Work in our modern, welcoming offices with senior leaders of the company to ensure you will have the opportunity to grow and learn. With a competitive salary of $90-115k (depending on experience), be part of a global company with large aspirations.
Position Purpose
Maintain the complex ecosystem of private cloud Linux and Windows resources providing valuable services to customer firms. Be a driving voice of continuous improvement and realization of efficiencies as Softek strives to grow in customer base and functionality offered.
Duties and Responsibilities
Private Cloud Engineers collaborate with development, client services teams, and each other to support Softek's product offerings to the financial services industry. Success in this role means you can develop, implement and maintain secure, cost-efficient environments from which to operate software-as-a-service products. The development and client services team relies on your collaboration and guidance to define computing requirements and create end-to-end solutions to solve complex IT infrastructure problems.
- Provide IT systems administration in a heterogeneous Microsoft Windows and Linux environment.
- Design, implement, and maintain strategies for efficient and reliable data center operations.
- Design, implement and maintain infrastructure required to operate high performing application servers and database clusters.
- Use troubleshooting techniques to resolve technical problems of a moderate to high scope and complexity to include the integration of hardware, operating systems, and applications.
- Collaborate with internal and external cybersecurity professionals to maintain security requirements and provide documentation on advanced IT processes and procedures and other tasks as assigned.
- Work with team members to procure, configure, and maintain data center resources to meet internal business requirements.
- Must be able to develop solutions and documentation to a variety of technical problems.
- Collaborate and coordinate with other team members to collectively achieve progress on all continuous improvement projects as well as performing duties/responsibilities.
- Systems are operational 24x7 and occasionally require work effort beyond standard work hours.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of Linux system administration.
- Understanding of core compute, storage, and networking principles.
- Familiarity with virtualization, IT Service Management (ITSM), Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), and other automation technologies.
- Familiarity with GitLab or Git
- Strong knowledge of network management and VPN infrastructure.
- Understanding of data RAID, data backup uses and technologies.
- Experience with MySQL and SingleStore infrastructure requirements and administration is a major plus.