Senior System Administrator

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 Heath 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 :

The System
team is part of the Operation & Infrastructure Department. The mission of
the System team is to enable Ceva to provide the infrastructure to sustain and
accelerate its business, anywhere in the world. We bring our expertise and
excellence to provide the hosting capabilities to deliver our production. 

As a Senior
System Admin, 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 implement project
plans, risk assessments and contingency plans. 
Implement the tools and
processes of deployment and industrialization that ensure the
sustainability working 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. 

Your
profile :

Which
skills we expect: 

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 heterogenous
fleet of ~1000 servers all over the world. 
Technologies requirements: 
Server room/Datacenter good
practices 
Systems & Software:
Debian/Ubuntu, Advanced knowledge/Certification of Windows Server
, 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