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Job Description

About FIS

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

Current and future sponsorship are not available for this position

Jacksonville, FL Hybrid (three days in-office, two days virtual) (only)

About the team

The Oracle Appliance Infrastructure team supports mission-critical Oracle engineered systems used across FIS technology environments. The team owns lifecycle operations for Oracle Exadata, Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Linux, storage, backup, recovery, monitoring, and platform reliability for highly available financial services workloads.

What you will be doing

As a System Administrator Lead for Oracle Appliances, you will manage the operating system and infrastructure layer for Oracle engineered platforms including Exadata, ZDLRA, ZFS, and ODA.

You will lead day-to-day platform administration, patching, upgrades, troubleshooting, automation, and production support while partnering with database, storage, network, security, and Oracle Support teams to keep critical systems stable, secure, and recoverable.

• Lead OS-level administration for Oracle engineered systems including Exadata database servers, ZDLRA, ZFS Storage Appliance, and Oracle Database Appliance environments.

• Plan and execute Linux/Unix patching, firmware maintenance, kernel/package updates, security remediation, certificate renewals, and platform hardening activities.

• Support appliance lifecycle activities including deployment, upgrades, health checks, capacity planning, migrations, decommissioning, and hardware refresh coordination.

• Troubleshoot production issues across operating system, storage, networking, monitoring, backup/recovery, and Oracle platform layers in a 24x7 enterprise environment.

• Partner with DBA, infrastructure, network, security, data center, and vendor support teams to resolve incidents, perform root cause analysis, and reduce operational risk.

• Create and maintain operational runbooks, implementation plans, automation scripts, standards, and knowledge documentation for repeatable appliance operations.

What you bring

• Strong hands-on experience administering Oracle Linux, RHEL, or Unix/Linux platforms in large-scale production environments.

• Experience supporting Oracle engineered systems such as Exadata, ZDLRA, ZFS Storage Appliance, or Oracle Database Appliance.

• Ability to perform OS patching, firmware updates, package management, system monitoring, troubleshooting, capacity review, and performance analysis.

• Working knowledge of storage, networking, NFS, VLANs, bonding, DNS, SSH, certificates, backup/recovery flows, and enterprise security controls.

• Proven ability to lead production incidents, coordinate with multiple technical teams, communicate clearly, and document operational procedures.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant work experience.

Bonus if you have

• Experience with RAC, ASM, Grid Infrastructure, Data Guard, RMAN, OEM, GoldenGate, Oracle Key Vault, or Transparent Data Encryption.

• Automation experience using Shell scripting, Python, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, or CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with Oracle Cloud@Customer, Oracle Database@Azure, OCI, or hybrid cloud engineered-system operations.

• Oracle, Linux, cloud, storage, or automation certifications.

What we offer you

• A competitive salary and benefits.

• A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities.

• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology.

• A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect.

• Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillset.

Privacy Statement

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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