Senior Unix Systems Administrator

About FAIR Health

FAIR Health, Inc., an independent nonprofit organization, was established in October 2009 with the mission to help ensure fairness and transparency in health insurance information. FAIR Health has created a database of over 36 billion and growing of private healthcare claims?the largest in the country?which receives claims monthly and which serves as the foundation for a variety of data products, custom analytics and consumer tools. FAIR Health also has been certified by CMS as a ?Qualified Entity? and all Medicare Parts A, B and D claims from 2013 to the present.

Our benchmark data modules, custom analytics, websites and tools serve all participants in the healthcare sector nationwide; they are licensed to payors, third-party administrators, bill review companies, self-insured employers, government agencies, academic researchers, and consultants. Our medical and dental data are used to inform statutes and regulations, healthcare cost indices, fee schedules, benefit and provider network design, practice/facility expansion, health systems research, and dispute resolution among, other uses. We also offer a suite of consumer-oriented tools and resources available on our consumer website (fairhealthconsumer.org), as well as mobile applications.

Summary of Position

The Systems Engineering team at FAIR Health is responsible for the operation, design, maintenance, troubleshooting, and protection of the company?s IT infrastructure. We are seeking an experienced Unix systems administrator, with strong experience with Linux, who will manage our Linux server environment. The ideal candidate would be well-versed in Unix in general, interested in integrations between Linux and other operating environments, and attentive to details. The candidate should be interested not just in the execution of such systems, but also in design and maintainability, including the security ramifications of any architectural choices.

Primary Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and maintain Linux servers in a multi-location enterprise environment.
• Work closely with networking, storage, database, and security stakeholders to support the environment and deliver projects in a timely manner.
• Conduct capacity and performance analyses and provide system configuration change and upgrade recommendations.
• Write and support systemd-based service management configurations.
• Maintain common system package repositories for OS installations and updates.
• Engage with other teams for project planning to ensure timely and successful completion of projects assigned to Systems Engineering.
• Provide Linux technical knowledge and recommendations to staff members as required.
• Manage, coordinate, and implement environment-wide patches and software updates.
• Design and maintain reliable backup solutions for Linux environments.
• Increase efficacy and accuracy via the use and creation of automated tools and scripting languages and develop uniform system administration procedures.
• Design efficient and maintainable systems for new projects.
• Administer the company?s AWS cloud computing environment (used primarily for development).
• Plan and execute migrations from legacy environments to current Linux platforms.
• Provide third-tier support for end users as required.