Wanted: Network and System Specialist [Singapore]

Unmitigated Risk; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Dental

401k

Life Insurance

Generous time off and holiday schedule

Job summary

GlobalSign is seeking a Network and System Specialist in Singapore to help build and operate a high-availability secure system powering modern web applications.

You will administer network equipment, load balancers, UNIX hosts, and databases, implement security hardening, and drive automation and disaster-recovery exercises to ensure continuous service.

Qualifications

• At least two years in a similar role.
• Able to work in a team and individually.
• Capable of multitasking in a fast-paced environment.
• Maintain up-to-date operation and procedure documentation.
• Willing to work extended hours and weekends.
• Carry a duty mobile and respond to urgent calls.
• Strong preference for PKI and cryptographic key management experience.
• Preference for virtualization experience.
• Preference for high-availability environments with 99.999% uptime.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain network and system infrastructure, ensuring service availability, reliability, performance and incident response.
• Manage network equipment, load balancers, proxies, web servers, Unix hosts and SQL databases.
• Harden and monitor security of hosts and network devices.
• Ensure high availability and optimal performance; support disaster recovery and business continuity exercises.
• Document procedures and follow up on requests, deployments, incidents, and escalations.
• Develop and deploy automation for common tasks.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot performance and reliability issues.

Skills

Teamwork

Multi-tasking

Documentation

On-call/Weekends

Fast-paced work

Tools

Virtualization

PKI

Job description

Network and System Specialist

Languages: English, Japanese is a plus.

Who we are

GlobalSign was formed in 1996 as one of the Internet’s original trust service providers (you probably know us as a Certificate Authority). Over the years we have issued millions of digital certificates that have been used to secure commerce and communication on the Internet. Our solutions take the pain out of using cryptography and help organizations solve complex problems with increased productivity and peace of mind.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for an up-and-coming system administrator with a passion for security. For the right candidate this is an amazing opportunity to build and operate a high-availability secure system to power modern web applications

What they will do

• Administration and maintenance of network and system infrastructure including:Maintain service availability, reliability, performance and facilitate incident response
  • Network equipment (Routers, Switches , Firewall / IPS).
  • Load balancers, proxy Servers and web servers.
  • Unix hosts (Redhat) and Databases (SQL).
• Hardening and monitoring of security of hosts and network devices.
• Ensure that the network is operating at optimum performance and with high availability by continually reviewing areas of improvement.Support disaster recovering and business continuity exercises.
  • Recommend the optimum or alternative solutions.
  • Monitor and maintain service availability.
  • Ensure procedures are documented.
  • Ensure compliance to policies and procedures.
  • Follow up on requests, deployments & incidents/issues (including escalation) and ensure proper and timely closure.
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot performance, and reliability of all aspects of system.
• Development and deployment of automation of common tasks.

Skills & Experience

• At least two years’ experience in a similar role.
• Ability to work in a team and individually.
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast pace environment
• Prior experience maintaining up-to-date operation and procedure documentation.
• Candidate able to work extended hours and weekends
• Required to carry duty Mobile and response to urgent calls
• Strong preference for applicants with experience with PKI and cryptographic key management.
• Preference for experience using virtualization.
• Preference for applicants with experience working in a high-availability environment with %99.999 up-time.

Benefits

• Health
• Dental
• 401k
• Life Insurance
• Generous time off and holiday schedule

GlobalSign is an equal opportunity employer with locations all over the world. Aside from being a great place to work we offer an excellent benefit package that includes Health, Dental, 401k, Life Insurance, and a generous time off and holiday schedule.

All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status; medical condition, disability; or any other legally protected status.