Network System Administrator

Visma makes businesses more efficient, through offerings of software, outsourcing services, commerce solutions, retail IT-solutions, and IT-related projects and consulting. Visma simplifies and digitalizes core business processes within the private and public sector. 400,000 customers in Northern Europe utilize Visma’s products and services, and an additional 330,000 use Visma as a hosting partner. The group has 7 400 employees and its net revenue amounted to NOK 8 338 million in 2015.


 

Visma IT & Communications AS

Visma IT & Communications AS is a part of the  Software Government & Large Accounts division in Visma. Our vision is to be the preferred and relevant strategic partner of both Visma group companies and their customers. We enable them to achieve their goals by offering best in class tailored IT solutions that are secure, innovative, simplified and efficient.  Our international teams are highly competent and specialized in their fields, and base their work on our wide knowledge of the Visma Solutions portfolio.



About the job

Visma IT & Communications is looking for a passionate 24/7/365 Operational engineer/System administrators for Windows Area with the ability to work on shifts.



You must have a drive to develop high quality processes that will run in an unusually complex technical environment. You will be a member of Operations Centre., where your skills and contributions to manage our SaaS solutions and supporting tools will be very visible. You must love to help team members and to receive help from them. The team is international so you will use English both written and orally. If the descriptions above fit you, and you can check several of the following bullets, Visma IT & Communications can offer you a very interesting work and very competitive terms. 



Your skills, experience and abilities:

·         English proficiency
·         Excellent oral and written communication skills
·         Ability to work in shifts and on call on 24/7/265 environments
·         Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Telecommunication (In lieu of degree, 3 years relevant work experience).
·         Superior analytical and problem solving skills
·         Strong ability to work independently as well as with highly cross-functional teams
·         Experience in network optimization, testing and troubleshooting
·         Strong Cisco IOS experience
·         Good knowledge of Junos OS - an advantage
·         Strong experience with firewalls(such as Cisco ASA, Checkpoint, F5, IDS, ...)
·         Experience with IP backbone technologies (MPLS, Layer2 VPNs, Layer3 VPNs, QoS, High Availability)
·         Experience with routing protocols (eBGP, iBGP, OSPF)
·         Linux/Unix Server OS experience
·         Strong knowledge in network debugging/troubleshooting techniques and IP protocol analysis
·         Experience on PaaS and IaaS on public clouds (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, ..) - an advantage
·         Experience in working with hypervisors - an advantage
·         Surveillance monitoring
·         Networking experience in: IP, TCP, UDP, routing, multicast etc.



Tasks:

·         Upgrade network equipments with new software release
·         Install and maintain network equipments in our datacentres
·         Participate in 24/7/365 support for production issues and upgrades and pre-production installations at varying levels
·         Monitor network services that are provided to customers
·         Monitor data-centres network services
·         Install and maintain network services in public clouds
·         Work with different internal teams to understand product domains and address documentation/training needs
·         Maintain and grow a production environment in a way that makes the system increasingly maintainable
·         Work to resolve a running queue of application support tickets and debug complex problems as they arise



What Visma offers:

• We offer an exciting position in an international working environment where you will be part of a dynamic and highly skilled international team.
• You will have good opportunities for career development through internal training and diverse work assignments in a prominent international company.
• We offer competitive terms and conditions.