Linux System Administrator

Company Description

Founded in 2012, MindMaze is a global leader in brain technology and digital neurotherapeutics solutions for brain health and recovery. Its mission is to accelerate the brain’s ability to recover, learn and adapt. The company has two core divisions - Healthcare and Labs - working collaboratively at the intersection of neuroscience, bio-sensing, engineering, mixed reality, and artificial intelligence.

MindMaze Healthcare is advancing a universal platform for brain health with breakthrough solutions to some of the world’s most challenging problems in neurology, including stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. MindMaze Labs, the company’s R&D innovation hub, is focused on the future of human computing - working across multiple industries to innovate and build the next generation of human-machine interfaces. The company has offices in Switzerland, the US, France, and India.

**Job Description**:
You will join a small team and participate in the maintenance and evolution of IT infrastructures. The HQ is in Switzerland, your scope will be multi-sites with a mix of in-house and cloud environments.

If you are open-minded with a flair for new technologies while being able to adapt to healthcare regulations and constraints, please get in touch.

You will:

- Configure, manage and maintain technical and security requirements of physical servers, Virtual systems, and operating systems in a mixed Linux/Windows/MAC environment.
- Admin support for special purpose systems including new tools implementation - Collaboration tools such as Atlassian Confluence/Jira/Bitbucket, File sharing solutions (Owncloud), SSO integration (Keycloak, LDAP/Kerberos/SAML/OAuth).
- Ensure design of systems allowing all components to work properly together over multiple sites and tools
- Perform periodic performance reporting and resource optimization
- Hardening and locking down Windows and Linux systems to ensure full compliance with security requirements
- Containerization
- Docker and LXC
- Monitoring - Zabbix, Prometheus, Elastic Stack, Grafana and Kibana dashboard creation
- Administer Deployment management tools - Ansible
- Manage Versioning tools - Git
- Manage Web Services (Apache, HAProxy, Nginx), Databases (Postgres, Mongodb) and High availability
- Install new/rebuild existing workstations, peripherals, services, settings, storage, etc
- Standardize workstations equipment.
- Maintain network facilities in individual machines and settings of personal computers. New account creation/adjustment/cancellation. Manage users’ systems/accounts authorization rights in the IT infrastructure.
- Maintain data center environment and equipment. Inventory management.
- Perform regular security monitoring to identify possible intrusions.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent work experience
- +5 yrs experience in Linux system administration and networking
- Linux shell scripting, programming skills (Bash, Python, Perl, Java...) and virtualisation experience
- Windows and Mac workstations support management would be an asset
- Knowledge of the Kubernetes stack and Helm templating is a plus
- Experience with IDS and IPS systems is a plus
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact orally and in writing to a variety of audiences
- Fluency in English, and French is a plus
- Ability to work well under deadlines and pressure

**Essential soft skills to be successful**:

- Good interpersonal skills
- Effective planning, organizational and problem-solving capability
- Able to work independently and as a team player
- You are able to take initiative and be self-driven
- Customer service oriented

**Icing on the cake**:

- Experience with Network design and security.
- At ease with Atlassian’s suite and agile methodology
- Systems Administration/System Engineer certification

Additional Information
**Please note that for this position only Swiss, eligible EU citizens or those with a valid work permit for Switzerland will be considered.**
- A scale-up company in innovative therapies
- Dynamic and driven team
- Flexible work environment
- Excellent location in Lausanne, easily accessible with an amazing lake view