What are the responsibilities and job description for the Server Engineer III position at Veritex Community Bank?
Job Summary:
The Server Engineer III leads a team of Server Engineers responsible for Windows Server, VMWare, and other infrastructure technologies. Responsible for the stability, integrity, availability, and performance of these technology-based services, ensures the day-to-day operations, maintenance, upgrades, and patches of servers and supporting systems. The Server Engineer III provides best business practice support and guidance to junior engineers as well as the user community on application deployment and delivery, implementation of server hardware and operating systems, and options to optimize delivery of applications. Installs and builds servers for the deployment of applications in a variety of environments and platforms, provides server performance analysis, and creates plans for disaster recovery.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for other Server Engineers by providing consultation, mentoring, performance feedback, and support
- Work with the CIO to define strategic direction
- Design, architect, install, and document Branch wide information systems, servers, and services in support of core businesses
- Designs, and develops effective solutions, specifications and quotes, based upon customer needs, systems, and standards.
- Build and configure Branch server hardware, operating system and application software following approved procedures and standards established for the IT Data Center.
- Integrate systems within the enterprise directories according to established policies and procedures to ensure customer access requirements
- Maintain, administer, support and troubleshoot the appropriate services using approved enterprise tools and methods to ensure availability and performance
- Provide quality and timely technical support and assistance to customers, vendors and other IS personnel to resolve problems and issues in a clear and concise manner
- Evaluate system performance by running tests using appropriate methodologies and tools. Perform periodic maintenance to restore, maintain and improve the performance of all information systems
- Manage projects to ensure the quality and timely implementation of data center systems using established tools and procedures while monitoring project status and resolving issues in a timely manner with our Managed Data Center/Security provider.
- Act as a resource for IS team members, providing technical expertise on new and existing technology and manage projects to ensure the quality and timely implementation of data center systems using established tools and procedures while monitoring project status and resolving issues in a timely manner
- Act as a resource for IS team members, providing technical expertise on new and existing technology and guidance in how to solve complex, technical problems related to hardware, software, operating systems, and data in a professional manner
- Participate in the interviewing and onboarding of new IT personnel
Job Skills and Qualifications:
The ideal Server Engineer III candidate will have five years of experience designing, building, configuring, and supporting medium size infrastructure environments to include networking protocols, clustering, replication, encryption, tape/disk drives, and backup and restore technologies with the ability to architect complex enterprise solutions with special consideration given to application performance and resiliency, configuration, optimization, and troubleshooting. The ideal Server Engineer III will also have the following skills and experience:
- Extensive knowledge of several or all of the following: Server systems, storage arrays, fabric configurations, SAN, NAS, Fiber Channel, Microsoft Active Directory and Windows infrastructure services such as AD, GPO, DFS, File/Print, DNS, WINS, replication, certificate services, ADFS, Virtualization of network, SAN, and Server technologies, VMWare technologies
- Experience architecting enterprise solutions for application performance and resiliency
- Experience configuring, optimizing, troubleshooting, and managing: AD/Dir services, attributes, object, object classes; VMWare ESX Enterprise; vSphere, vCenter, etc.
Company Overview:
Truth in Texas Banking. That's what we're about. Founded in 2010, we are one of the ten largest banks headquartered in the state of Texas. We became a publicly traded company in 2014 and in 2020 and 2021 we were listed on Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, we've built a bank forever rooted in truth, transparency, and uncompromising integrity.
We know our strongest asset is the passion, authenticity, and talent of our people. We focus on the growth and development of each team member to unlock potential to "Be Your True Self." Our "True You" culture is made up of five pillars:
- Be Mindful
- Be Healthy
- Be Better
- Be Prosperous
- Be Faithful
With this as our foundation, we've built a bank of people who are transparent, tell the truth, and act with integrity. We unite together in common purpose - caring deeply for our clients and communities, communicating openly with each other, and treating everyone with respect. Visit our website at www.VeritexBank.com and come see how we're bringing truth and transparency to Texas banking.
Veritex Community Bank does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. Veritex Community Bank is under no obligation to pay any referral compensation or recruiter fee in the absence of a current executed Recruitment Services Agreement. In the event a recruiter or agency submits an unsolicited resume or candidate without an agreement, Veritex reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Veritex Community Bank.
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Work environment and Physical demands: The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. The employee may occasionally stand, walk, reach, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The work environment and physical demands are those of a standard office setting. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Disclaimer: This job description is not an inclusive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Incumbents will be required to follow any other job- related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. Veritex Bank reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs.
This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship. Veritex Community Bank is an equal opportunity employer. Veritex Community Bank Corporate Human Resources, Dallas, Texas.
We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on the Company. Please inform the Company's personnel representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.
- Pay Type Salary
- Dallas, TX, USA
