Job Description

Company Description
QAD is building a world-class SaaS company, and we are growing. We are looking for talented individuals who want to join us on our mission to help solve relevant real-world problems in manufacturing and the supply chain. We are a virtual first company and your primary work experience will be virtual / working from your home. Occasional travel to a physical office may be required to enhance working relationships, collaboration, design, strategy and alignment.


QAD Service Delivery is driven by a passion for creating exceptional customer satisfaction. We achieve this by applying quality service and concepts that reduce customer effort and drive customer loyalty. We want to make problem resolution for our customers Effortless. We are looking for a Senior level UNIX Systems Administrator to join our global IT team. This role will work in support of our global RedHat Linux physical and virtual machine ecosystem in both a private and public cloud setting. The seasoned and experienced candidate will work on all levels of incident and problem management, along with any adds/moves/changes to Linux servers. What You\xe2\x80\x99ll Do:

• Design, maintain and document complex QAD systems environments and system performance measurement.
• Perform daily monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of backup jobs on platforms (Veeam, Windows, VMware, and UNIX servers).
• Examine backup software performance and monitoring of scheduled backups to ensure success or take remedial action for failures
• Configure backup policy for new backup clients.
• Perform regular DR (Disaster Recovery) test plan of backup data restoration and storage replication availability.
• Perform offsite tape recall when needed for backup recovery.
• Provide evidence for annual external and internal audit requirements.
• Maximize performance through ongoing and ad hoc system examination.
• Disseminate knowledge and experiences with the rest of the team.
• Participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.

Ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values, enabling staff, volunteers, and Partners

• Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.
• Participate in OS patch management and coordination.

Qualifications
What You\xe2\x80\x99ll Need:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
• Minimum 5+ years of Unix experience is required
• Should also have a good understanding of VMWare VSphere, and a general understanding of high end storage hardware (NetApp, HPe Nimble a plus)
• Experience in managing SMTP, samba & NIS applications is mandatory.
• Strong scripting skills (Pearl, Bash, Powershell, Python), etc\xe2\x80\xa6
• Strong knowledge of Redhat Enterprise Linux.
• Redhat Certification(RHCE) is good to have.
• Experience in working on Windows 2016 / 2012 / 2008 server environment.
• Strong Knowledge in Backup and storage products like Veeam and Veritas NetBackup.
• Hands-on experience on VmWare Infrastructure.
• Linux server troubleshooting, Log analysis and root cause analysis for down situation.
• Must be able to work under pressure & meet deadlines.

Additional Information

• Your health and well being are important to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work-life balance.
• Opportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.
• Collaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.
• An atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level or hierarchy.
• Compensation packages based on experience and desired skill set

About QAD:
QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises. QAD solutions help customers in the automotive, life sciences, packaging, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech and industrial manufacturing industries rapidly adapt to change and innovate for competitive advantage. QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions, respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QAD\xe2\x80\x99s DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity, equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work. #LI-Remote