Senior System Administrator

Ceva Santé Animale; Libourne; Sur place; EUR 55 000 - 70 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A global leader in animal health is seeking a Senior System Administrator in Libourne, France, to manage and maintain servers, oversee system operations and mentor team members. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in system administration and a robust knowledge of infrastructures, cloud services, and virtualization technologies. Fluent in both French and English, the candidate should demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with a user-centric approach to technology. This position is crucial to our commitment to the health and wellbeing of animals and our planet.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in on-premises System Administration, ideally with a devops culture.
• Fluent in French and English (verbal and written).
• Good understanding of ops technologies.

Responsabilités

• Install and configure internal servers locally and remotely.
• Manage and maintain physical servers, hypervisors, monitoring and backups.
• Develop and implement contingency plans.
• Analyze and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Document best practices and support procedures.

Connaissances

Proactive management

Excellent communication

Curiosity

Organizational skills

User-centric approach

Formation

Graduated from an engineering school or equivalent

Outils

Debian/Ubuntu

Windows Server (2012-2022)

Docker

Kubernetes

VMWare ESX

Proxmox

GitHub Enterprise

Veeam Backup

Description du poste

Senior System Administrator

The success of a company depends on the passionate people we partner with.

Together, let's share our talents.

As a global leader in animal health, Ceva Animal Health believes our success is linked to our passionate people researching, developing , producing and supplying innovative health solutions for all animals, which contributes to the future of our diverse planet.

We are committed to ensuring the highest possible level of care and well‑being for farm animals (poultry, pigs, ruminants), companion animals (dogs and cats) and wildlife.

Indeed, Our “Together, Beyond Animal Health” vision emphasizes that the health and wellbeing of people, animals and our planet are totally interlinked. More than ever, Ceva is committed to a "One Health" approach.

As part of our “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” policy, Ceva Animal Health is committed to the employment of people with disabilities and will make reasonable accommodations throughout the interview process to ensure an inclusive and accessible experience for all applicants. To request an accommodation, please contact a member of the Ceva Talent Acquisition team.

Your missions

As a senior System Administrator, your missions will be to build and operate systems in a challenging way:

• Install and configure internal servers locally and remotely.
• Proactively manage and maintain physical servers, hypervisors, monitoring and backups.
• Develop and identify plan, risk assessment, and contingency plans.
• Implement the tools and processes of deployment and industrialization that ensure sustainability in the operation of our customers.
• Investigate and check systems, analyze and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Define and document best practices and support procedures.
• Maintain inventory and asset configuration documentation.
• Support business solution vendors in deploying or upgrading applications hosted on servers.
• Assist with hardware and software vendor evaluation, recommendation and negotiations.
• Mentor / cross train team members on existing and new technologies.
• Interact with customers and staff at the technical level, as required.

Profile

Soft skills

• Be Bold, Adaptable, Positive, Ingenious & Efficient.
• Like to communicate, curiosity, initiative, pragmatism in a collaborative and challenging business & tech environment: Actively participate in discussions aimed at bridging the gap between technical capabilities and business needs.
• Must be organized and can manage projects of varying length & complexity.
• User centric approach: pedagogy, communication, wants to help.

Hard skills

• Knowledge of infrastructures design and implementations.
• Knowledge about the Azure public cloud.
• Management of an heterogeneous fleet of ~1000 servers all over the world.
• Server room / Datacenter good practices.
• Systems & Software: Debian/Ubuntu, Advanced knowledge / Certification of Windows Server (2012‑2022), Docker, Kubernetes.
• Active Directory / LDAP user and group administration.
• Management of a Virtualization Platform: VMWare ESX, Proxmox.
• Solid understanding of LAN / WAN networking.
• Monitoring management skills: SLO / SLA, define metrics to measure the impact of a new feature, …
• Automation: IAC, reproducibility, GitHub Enterprise.
• Veeam Backup management.

Others

• Graduated from an engineering school or equivalent.
• 10+ year experience in on‑premises System Administration, ideally with a devops culture.
• Fluent in French and English (verbal and written).
• Good understanding of ops technologies.