Location: San Francisco Headquarters Office
Start Date: December 1st , 2009

 

If you are searching for a fast-paced environment with a company that seeks to bring citizens closer to government by increasing transparency, this opportunity may be perfect for you. At Granicus, our strategy is simple - we look for great people and empower them to turn their vision into reality.

 

Your duties shall include

• Backup, Redundancy, Management, and Support of 24x7 Highly Available Data Center Hosted Applications and Network Systems
• Management of 500TB of streaming media and other data
• SAN Server Virtualization
• Management of a “Hot Failover” Data Center in geographically separate location
• Ensuring production system uptime through monitoring
• Performance tuning, optimization of servers
• Licensing and Inventory Management
• Creation of Operating System and Security policies and implementation thereof.
• Maintenance of Network topology diagrams
• VOIP Systems Management · Management of Data Center Security and Standards documentation and program.
• Mentor to other systems administrators
• Serve as primary communications conduit to Granicus management for data center events
•  Documentation of configurations of networking equipment, server hardware and other associated data center devices 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Minimum Education: 4 year degree or equivalent education or experience
Required Experience: 5+ years
Required Expertise: Data Center Management, Windows Server 2003, Hosted Web Applications, On-Call Support and Monitoring, Technical Team Leader, Network Administration (Load Balancing, Switching, Routers, Firewalls)

• Microsoft Systems Certification
• Windows Server 2003 and 2008
• Experience Highly Available Multi-location data centers
• Experience working with Content Delivery Network partners
• Microsoft IIS
• Windows Media Services
• Server Load Balancing
• VPN Management
• Network Protocols, Router and Switch Management
• Networking: OSI model, layer 4-7 Switching, layer 3 routing, functionality of layer 2 switches, VLANs and VLAN tagged frames, etc
• SSL, Secured Communications between applications
• Overseeing Managed IP Phone System
• Project Management Skills
• Professional written and verbal communication skills

Other details: On-call availability required, one weekend of every quarter required; Physical Demands: Vision requirements (close, distance, color, depth perception, ability to adjust focus); Ability to reach and use hands required; Ability to lift 10 - 25 lbs on occasion.

About the Company

Founded in 1999, Granicus, Inc. is the leading provider of government webcasting and public meeting management solutions. Serving nearly 500 governing bodies across 48 states and reaching more than 60 million individual citizens, Granicus solutions capture, store, manage and distribute on-demand audio and video broadcasts of public functions. Granicus helps governments maximize democratic transparency, engage their constituents, manage public meetings more efficiently, and improve public communication. Granicus provides the most comprehensive and tightly integrated online public records and webcasting system to all levels of government.

Granicus is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. In order to ensure equal employment opportunity for every applicant, hiring decisions will be made without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran status, or disability. Granicus is firmly committed to a policy and practice of non-discrimination of employment, and Granicus will fully comply with all applicable federal, state, and local statutes of employment.

Granicus, Inc. is an E-Verify registered company. 


Please submit your cover letter and resume to jobs@granicus.com