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The Role
The Senior Systems Administrator will manage the Linux production environment, support production issues, and collaborate with teams to enhance architecture, leveraging experience in Unix/Linux and AWS.
Summary Generated by Built In
Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.
At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.
As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.
Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.
Veeva Systems is looking for a bright, energetic, self-motivated Senior Linux Systems Administrator focused on our customer-facing production infrastructure. This is a hands-on position and will work closely with the Operations, Engineering and Support teams. You must be a strong team player that thrives working with speed in a fluid entrepreneurial environment. If you have at least 8 of years experience supporting a large number of Red Hat Linux or similar servers in Production IT or customers facing SaaS environment, we want to hear from you!
What You'll Do
- Monitor and maintain the Production Linux environment consisting of many servers
- Assist in building-out of new infrastructure in AWS
- Investigate and resolve production issues
- Collaboratively work with Operations and Engineering teams to implement changes/enhancements to production architecture including new servers and updates to existing infrastructure/configuration
- Investigate new technologies
- Develop, maintain, and improve internal tools for server monitoring and maintenance
- Share on-call responsibilities night and weekend and support work as needed
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years Unix/Linux administration/Support/maintenance experience in a production environment preferably Red Hat or Amazon Linux
- Knowledge of OS and network security (firewall and system hardening)
- Advanced systems and automation programming skills
- Demonstrated capacity for analytical thinking and rapid problem solving in a fast-paced environment
- Versatility, flexibility, and a willingness to work within constantly changing priorities
- Relevant working experience with MySQL Database administration or other Databases strongly desired
- Need to be physically located in Australia time zone (AWST/ACST/AEST)
Nice to Have
- Software as a service [ SaaS]
- Experience developing ansible and/or Terraform scripting
- Experience building, supporting, troubleshooting multi-tier, high- volume, production web installations (Load balanced server pools, App/DB, tier, etc.)
- Apache/tomcat/Nginx installation configuration and troubleshooting Networking
- Release automation, rollback, and configuration management
- Experience with monitoring and log management software
- Implementation/authoring of operational procedures
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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.
Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years Unix/Linux administration experience in a production environment
- Knowledge of OS and network security
- Advanced systems and automation programming skills
- Relevant working experience with MySQL Database administration or other Databases
Veeva Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Veeva and has not been reviewed or approved by Veeva.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is broadly distributed across the company, positioning most employees as shareholders. Stock-based incentives can materially enhance total compensation, particularly at higher seniority.
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Flexible Benefits — Work Anywhere enables remote-first flexibility with options to use offices and to gather through offsites or coworking weeks. This structure supports collaboration while minimizing rigid on-site requirements.
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Healthcare Strength — Core coverage includes medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life and disability, and EAP. Supplemental perks such as commuter assistance and wellness or gym reimbursements are available in some locations.
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What We Do
Veeva is the global leader in cloud software for the life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva serves more than 1,000 customers, ranging from the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Veeva is committed to balancing the interests of all stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, and the industries it serves.
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