Senior Systems Administrator

Bayside Solutions; Dublin (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bayside Solutions is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to lead complex IT projects, coordinate multi-team activities, and ensure service readiness and incident resolution across Versa environments.

The role emphasizes production support, SLA adherence, and collaboration with Architecture, Engineering, and IT partners to implement Versa standards and related technologies. Strong communication and on-call readiness are required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing IT SLAs for complex systems.
• Strong understanding of L2/L3 support and incident management.
• Experience with Versa SSE and firewall architectures.

Responsibilities

• Provide inputs to production SLAs for systems of low to moderate complexity.
• Review SLA compliance and define changes for future initiatives.
• Design, deploy, and manage Versa SSE solutions with Engineering teams.
• Coordinate Versa and other support teams for projects, maintenance, or outages.
• Maintain Versa infrastructure health monitoring and patching processes.

Skills

SLA management

L2/L3 support

Incident response

Vendor coordination

Documentation

Tools

Versa SSE

Panorama

Accenture MxDR

CMDB

Logging tools

Job description

The Senior Systems Administrator will be responsible for working on complex projects, assignments, and issues where they will determine methods and procedures needed. They will also coordinate activities of other associates from among all support teams involved, not just the network, as the situation warrants. Areas of focus include relationship management, service transition, service management, service integration, and technical operations activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide inputs to production SLAs for systems of low to moderate complexity. Drive accountability for meeting SLAs.
• Review SLA compliance reports and define activity changes to adhere to SLAs in the future for low to moderately complex initiatives.
• Assist Architecture and Engineering with new Versa security-related solutions, ensuring they are compatible with the company's business needs and strategic objectives.
• Work with vendors, service providers, and other infrastructure teams. Service Transition.
• Plan and manage service readiness for new or enhanced services of low to moderately complex scope.
• Ensure that new or changed services satisfy all readiness criteria and are ready for production deployment for low to moderately complex projects.
• Plan and recommend procedures for service request management.
• Maintain incident management process and procedures and resolve complex incidents.
• Design, deploy, and manage Versa SSE solutions in conjunction with Engineering and Level 2 teams.
• Review and analyze new requests, work with IT partners, Project teams, vendors, and leadership to understand requirements; Recommend solutions that integrate with the Versa network environment using standard methods and practices.
• Review SLA reports and recommend service improvement opportunities.
• Make recommendations for updates to the service catalog on IT services delivered to customers.
• Research, evaluate, develop, design, and implement Versa standards following industry best practices.
• Develops and implements policies and procedures relative to Versa and dependent technologies, Technical Operations
• Determine remediation actions for simple to moderately complex new events.
• Manage system health, maintenance, recovery, and basic application technical tuning for established initiatives.
• Analyze performance of the Versa environment, reacting to sub-optimal operational performance and business-wide issues; Participate with the L2/L3 production support team; help identify and develop efficiency opportunities.
• Maintain Versa infrastructure health monitoring, reporting, and notification tools. Contribute to the optimization of monitoring for the environment.
• Maintain Versa infrastructure hardware, including ongoing software/firmware patches or upgrades. This includes evaluating and testing patches and new releases to ensure a successful introduction to the workplace environment.
• Coordinate activities of Versa and other support teams, both internal and external, for project, maintenance, or outage activities.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• 6-8 years of experience in the IT field or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ or more years of engineering, architecture, or operations experience delivering Versa and other firewall technologies (Panorama) solutions in a large enterprise.
• Experience providing technical support for L2/L3 and other operations teams. On-call support as required for outages, emergencies, and/or escalations.
• Provided successful onsite delivery of Versa solutions for a previous firm globally.
• Experience working with Versa SSE specifically. Knowledge of other Versa technology offerings is helpful.
• Senior-level experience with recent versions of Versa SSE.
• Mid-level experience with another firewall product, such as Panorama, including but not limited to proxy, DNS, IPS, etc.
• Must have hands-on experience working with current versions of Versa SSE
• Ability to create, maintain, and review Versa documentation specific to the architecture and installation, as well as general network documentation such as topologies, network maps, configurations, and processes.
• Basic knowledge of logging technology, such as Accenture MxDR.
• Basic knowledge of CMDB and how it is used in conjunction with network equipment.

Desired Skills and Experience

Versa SSE administration, enterprise firewall engineering, Panorama, proxy/DNS/IPS, network security architecture, service transition and readiness, SLA management, incident and outage response, L2/L3 support, infrastructure monitoring and performance, hardware and firmware maintenance, patch testing, vendor coordination, network documentation, Accenture MxDR logging, CMDB, 6-8 years of IT experience

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