Alliant Credit Union
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What will your day look like?

You will be responsible for the continued development of Alliant’s infrastructure resiliency in regard to Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery. This role will focus on improvement and maintenance of Alliant’s BCP/DR initiatives. Responsibilities include managing technology focused Business Impact Analysis, Continuity Planning, and testing for all Alliant’s infrastructure to ensure compliance with business objectives and regulations. General direction is received from the Senior Manager, Infrastructure.

Responsibilities

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  • Provides engineering consulting and recommendations for all new IT systems to ensure the interoperability and adherence to Alliant’s technology standards and policies of all systems
  • Works with architects for group projects as well as internal IT and business driven initiatives
  • Provides appropriate hardware/software resources for business applications; performs capacity planning, workload modeling, and purchasing recommendations for new hardware/software upgrades; provides business applications enough resources for their short-term and long-term growth
  • Serves as a Systems Engineering expert in managing change to Alliant’s infrastructure
  • Ensures environment is updated with current, stable versions of software products; maintains currency with operating system and support software; plan and implements major software upgrades; ensures change management procedures and methodologies are implemented and followed
  • Provides a current, well-managed operating environment for production processing and application development
  • Troubleshoots and successfully diagnoses server hardware or software problems of all levels of complexity
  • Provides 24x7x365 support on all systems to meet departmental Service Level Agreements
  • Provides support for business continuity by ensuring daily backup schedules are completed and provides on site support for annual disaster recovery test
  • Comfortable communicating with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
  • Well-developed project planning, management and scheduling skills sufficient to prioritize projects and meet aggressive deadlines
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule outside of traditional business hours with limited advance notice during testing and training exercises and to run/attend incident calls, as required by incident
  • Partner with leadership, subject matter specialists, and business continuity coordinators to perform and evaluate business impact analyses, and risk assessments
  • Maintain an in-depth understanding of the business processes, assets, facilities, responsibilities, regulatory requirements and interdependencies of the organization
  • Perform continuous monitoring of program activities to identify areas of opportunity for improvement, and enhanced operational efficiency

 

Adhere to and ensure compliance of all business transactions with policy and process of the Bank Secrecy Act. Ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal laws, company procedures and policies. Maintains integrity and ethics in all actions and conversations with or regarding credit union member and their accounts. Complies with Privacy Act directives.

 

 

Qualifications

What makes you a great fit?

You’ll be a great fit if in addition to the Completion of a BA/BS degree in Computer Science, IT or related engineering discipline or or a minimum of 5 years directly related experience in the design, configuration, deployment and administration of network hardware and software required, and you have:

 

  • Certification in business continuity and disaster recovery, such as Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) from the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII), preferred
  • Technical skills required:
    • Windows Server 2012/2016/2019
    • Windows Windows 10
    • Windows 2012/2016/2019 Active Directory domains, Microsoft Clustering
    • Microsoft SCCM
    • Exchange
    • VMWare vSphere 6.X
    • VMWare Horizon
    • CommVault
    • Symantec AntiVirus solutions
    • TrendMicro
    • SQL 2008/2012/2016
    • DNS
    • TCP/IP
    • DHCP
    • HP Blade server hardware
    • Cisco UCS
    • EMC/DELL Hyper Converged Systems.
    • SAN technologies – Dell/EMC, NetApp and Pure Storage
    • Experience with building out cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS)
    • Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, etc)
    • Working knowledge of AIX
    • Knowledge of Symitar’s core banking platform is a plus
  • Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
  • Self-motivated and directed, well-organized
  • Successful track record collaborating with technical and non-technical teams to promote ideas to support business enablement
  • Excellent project management and time management skills

 

When you’re happy, we’re happy!

As a thank you for joining our team, you’ll benefit from:

 

  • Competitive medical, dental, and free vision benefits
  • Competitive compensation plan
  • Contributions towards gym memberships
  • Generous PTO and banking holidays off
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What are Alliant Credit Union Perks + Benefits

Alliant Credit Union Benefits Overview

Alliant constantly works on improving its Employee Value Proposition. Our Human Capital Group team seeks ongoing employee feedback to continue to raise the bar on employee-focused benefits, making updates to the existing and adding new benefits every year.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Alliant offers 8 hours of paid volunteer time benefit for all employees.
Partners with nonprofits
To execute on our mission of Bridging the Digital Divide, Alliant has partnered with PCs for People, Connected Nation, DiGiTunity and the National Digital Inclusion Alliance.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
Summer hours
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Alliant provides employees with a flexible work schedule that includes Flexible start and end times.
Remote work program
Since the pandemic began, all non-essential job functions have been remote 100%.
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Alliant provides our leaders and employees with unconscious bias, psychological safety and inclusive mindset training.
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Alliant supports employee resource groups. At this time, employees created INCLUDE, a women's resource group and ALL, an LGBTQ+ employee resource group, and EMPOWER black employees' resource group.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
At Alliant, we ensure that we have a diverse candidate slate for every role for which we hire and that our interview panels are also diverse.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Alliant employees can contribute up to $2,750 annually to their Health Care FSA and $5,000 to their dependent care FSA.
Disability insurance
Company provides Short Term Disability benefit payable for up to 13 weeks as well as Long Term Disability insurance that covers 66.67% of your monthly earnings up to $10,000 monthly maximum payout.
Dental insurance
Preventive services covered at 100%, Basic services covered at 80%; Major restorative services covered at 50%; Orthodontics covered at 50%
Vision insurance
Alliant offers free vision benefits to its employees and their dependents. The vision benefits plan covers 100% for annual eye exams after a $10 copay and $150 for glasses and contacts.
Health insurance
Alliant provides a choice of two medical plans. If you elect a medical plan, you are automatically enrolled in an HSA where Alliant contributes funds to help you pay for your out-of-pocket expenses.
Life insurance
Basic Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment is equal to 1 times an employee's annual salary. Employees can also purchase Voluntary Life insurance for themselves and their dependents.
Pet insurance
Our pet insurance policy covers up to %90 of out of pocket expenses.
Wellness programs
With Alliant's wellness reimbursement program, each employee receives up to $35 per month (non-cumulative) to spend on wellness activities and discounted wellness services through ThrivePass.
Team workouts
Through Calm application
Mental health benefits
Alliant employees get free access to ComPsych, Calm and myStrength apps and services.
Transgender health care benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Alliant offers a 401(k) plan administered through Fidelity where employees can contribute up to 60% of eligible compensation to the annual IRS limit.
401(K) matching
We match 100% of contributions up to the first 5% of an employee's annual gross pay. eligible salary. You will be 100% vested in these contributions right away.
Performance bonus
In the last years, Alliant’s bonus payouts were above 100%.
Charitable contribution matching
The Alliant Credit Union Foundation also matches employee donations made to non-religious, non-political 501(c)(3) organizations up to a total of $1,000 per person per calendar year.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 6 weeks of parental leave for the primary and secondary caretakers.
Family medical leave
Employees who have been with the company for 12 months are eligible for up to 26 weeks of family medical leave.
Adoption Assistance
Fertility benefits
Through our medical plan
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Our employees receive between 21 and 31 days per year of paid time off based on years of service. Alliant also offers a Flexible Time Off (unlimited time off) policy for Sr. Managers and above.
Paid volunteer time
Our employees receive 8 hours per year of paid volunteer time.
Paid holidays
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Employees can withhold up to $280 per month pre-tax for transit expenses and up to $280 per month pre-tax for parking expenses.
Company-sponsored outings
Alliant hosts between 4 and 6 major employee events in a year, including the Annual Volleyball Tournament, annual summer party and employee appreciation day celebration.
Free daily meals
We offer free lunch 3 days a week.
Free snacks and drinks
Currently, Alliant offers free snacks, free hot beverages and bottled water during the day, free lunch/food events on occasion and bi-weekly free fruit.
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Plenty of parking available.
Fitness stipend
Alliant reimburses its employees up to $35 per month for gym, health and fitness services and activities.
Mother's room
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Alliant offers employees professional development opportunities like Annual individual budget for training, onsite training courses and the ability to attend job-related conferences and seminars.
Tuition reimbursement
We offer up to $5,250 annually for continuing education through our tuition reimbursement benefit.
Lunch and learns
Alliant hosts lunch and learn and hour with the leader meetings once per quarter, giving our employees to hear from our executive and senior leadership teams.
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
We offer up to $5,250 annually for continuing education through our tuition reimbursement benefit.
Online course subscriptions available
Paid industry certifications
Personal development training

Additional Perks + Benefits

Alliant constantly works on improving its Employee Value Proposition. Currently, Alliant offers free snacks, free hot beverages and bottled water, free lunch/food events on occasion, personal concierge service, on-site package/mailing service, massage therapy, discounted ticket sales, car wash, dry cleaning, convenience store, vehicle maintenance, banking and a gym at our headquarters location.

Our company works hard to create a work environment that allows our employees to maintain a healthy work/life balance. We encourage our employees to take advantage of flexible hours and offer an option to work remotely. Alliant also offers a very generous PTO package, which starts new employees with 21 PTO days annualized in their first year of employment.

The well-being of our employees and their families translates to productivity and commitment to their jobs. That is why we constantly work on launching new benefits that will help them find the best medical care at the lowest cost and get the help they need with convenience and without unnecessary stress.

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