Company Description

PayScale is the world leader in modern compensation software. Our rich data and unique algorithms power the world’s largest real-time database of salary profiles, giving both employers and employees immediate visibility into the right pay for any position. We are bringing the dark art of compensation into the light by helping more than 6,500 businesses to stay competitive in the labor market and retain and manage their largest investment: their people.

We’re disrupting the compensation industry and are looking to bring on talented professionals with diverse perspectives. We foster a playful work atmosphere where highly motivated individuals can be truly innovative. Are you bright, tenacious, and inventive? If so, PayScale may be the perfect place for you to grow your career!

We are a fast-growing Warburg Pincus portfolio company who is thrilled to have brought the MarketPay product into our suite of offerings in 2016, and started a strategic alliance with Mercer in 2017. We can't wait for you to join us!

Job Description

As a PayScale Systems Administrator, your job is quite simple: make all things PayScale IT awesome. This role has the freedom to practice your craft among some very sharp and motivated people. Your goal, if you choose to accept it, is to keep PayScale team members working through literal and figurative technical fires. You'll be part of a team supporting all the IT hardware and software including servers, email, solving issues with VPN, Internet, Windows and more. The position will work on building and supporting a hybrid cloud-based infrastructure, build creative IT solutions to new business challenges, and build platforms to run and evangelize PayScale’s cool and useful products.

Responsibilites:

• Design, configure, document and maintain network infrastructure
• Be the critical person to trouble network and server related issues
• Monitoring system performance, tuning and log analysis
• Perform system updates, upgrades, backups, and recovery processes
• Run Cisco IP Phone infrastructure
• Handle Windows Servers in an Active Directory environment
• Apply administration standard methodologies
• Develop short and long-term infrastructure plans to support PayScale’s growth
• Responsible for ISP, network and server infrastructure deployment and maintenance.
• Investigate new technologies and research viability within PayScale’s infrastructure.
• Support and configure two Linux based products in on-prem and cloud environments; including these technologies, LAMP, Ansible, Jenkins, GlusterFS, and node.js.
• Lead AWS technologies used for PayScale’s solutions.
• Create and maintain standard operating procedures and systems documentation.
• Mentoring and training help desk staff.
• Highly functional project coordinator, you will be leading a lot of projects simultaneously that have significant impact to the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred or equivalent work experience
• 2-5+ years of progressive technical experience in a startup setting
• In-depth understanding of routing and network protocols, including the OSI model
• Strong network troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Syslog/SNMP configuration, maintenance and security logging.
• Solid knowledge with Cisco VPN technology and troubleshooting
• Experience with Cisco Telephony Systems: Call Manager, Unity.
• Demonstrable experience documenting IT processes and procedures and project management
• Solid grasp of Active Directory, DHCP, TCP/IP and DNS
• Deep understanding of Microsoft Windows 10, Server 2012/2016, Office365, SQL 2014, IIS
• Cisco and MCSE certifications a plus
• Linux administration, Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu
• Good interpersonal communication skills and great teammate
• Experience with the following languages is preferred but not required. Python PowerShell, Batch, Bash
• SSO knowledge/experience
• Ability to receive and handle a wide variety of tasks with opposing priorities.
• Effective communication skills.
• Ability to creatively solve highly technical issues and communicate changes to non-technical staff.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Experience with AWS/Azure

Additional Information

PayScale provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. PayScale complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

Benefits We Offer:

• Unlimited Paid Time Off policy
• 100% company paid medical/vision/dental/prescription premiums for employees (50% for eligible dependents and partners)
• Four Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations towards: Medical, Dependent Care (can be used towards day care costs!), Parking, Tansit.
• Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, and Company-paid Life Insurance
• Generous Parental Leave, 4-12 weeks
• 10 paid holidays!
• Summer office closure, entire week of July 4th
• 401k with company match, vests immediately

Perks:

• Casual dress code (JSS - Jeans, shorts, and sandals welcome!)
• Onsite gym
• Onsite lockers, showers, and clothes dryer
• Bike storage
• Coworkers you actually like...
• Gender neutral bathrooms on most floors
• Mothers' Room
• Sitting-Standing ergo friendly desks
• Weekly company sponsored happy hours
• Fido Fridays (our canine colleagues join us the first Friday of every month. WOOF!)