Junior Database Administrator

Posted 8/24/2010
Send Digital Resume To: jrdba_20100824@vindicia.com

Vindicia is seeking a Junior Database Administrator with a strong background in rdbms systems. This position will report to our Manager, Database Administration.

You have experience in a 24/7/365 uptime environment and though you may not have been calling the shots, you have seen a high-visibility, high-stakes event or two and you know how to make yourself useful. You have taken level 1 escalations and are ready to start thinking at a higher level.

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for production, QA and dev systems, including being part of an on-call rotation
• Assist configuring new clients in our hosted environment
• Participate in a cross-functional team of engineers building and delivering new features for new and existing merchants
• Participate in a team providing good outcomes and implementing appropriate mitigation plans for anticipated risks

Skills:

• Ability to intuitively navigate relational models
• Self-starter who learns quickly
• Quick thinker who can deal with changing priorities
• Effective and clear intra-company communication
• Troubleshooting ability

Minimum Technical Requirements:

• 2-3 years database Oracle database administration experience
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a Linux environment
• Strong knowledge of SQL
• Experience in environments that use Oracle DataGuard, including Logical Standby databases
• Performance tuning of database servers and SQL statements
• Experience scripting in bash/perl
• Some familiarity with a monitoring solution: Nagios, Big Brother, etc

Additional Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge of Oracle technologies: Streams, RAC, etc
• Strong Perl coding skills
• Data analyst/warehousing skills
• Advanced knowledge of LDAP
• Experience writing reports
• In-depth knowledge of Nagios
• Expert sysadmin skills

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Senior Database Administrator

Posted 8/24/2010
Send Digital Resume To: srdba_20100816@vindicia.com

Vindicia is seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator with a strong background in production operations. This position will report to our Manager, Database Administration.

You are intimately familiar with Oracle but you know enough about other databases (particularly open source ones) to get around and to know their strengths and weaknesses. You are not an Enterprise-Manager-only DBA. You've got enough system administration experience to build an Oracle database server from bare metal and don't have to rely on the sysadmin group to get around the system.

You have worked as a DBA in a 24/7/365 uptime environment and have a strong sense of prioritization in that environment. You've run high-visibility, high-stakes events in your career and have been the steady hand who can make tough choices which, while perhaps not the most popular decision, were the best technical decision to make at the time.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership supporting production, QA and dev systems, including being part of an on-call rotation
• Design and deploy database systems for optimal performance
• Serve as a resource to development team for table and query design
• Participate in a cross-functional team of engineers building and delivering new features for new and existing merchants
• Take proactive ownership for good outcomes and anticipate potential risks, putting appropriate mitigation plans in place
• Mentor junior members of team

Skills:

• Ability to intuitively navigate relational models
• Self-starter who learns quickly
• Quick thinker who can deal with changing priorities
• Effective and clear intra-company communication
• Strong, proven troubleshooting ability

Minimum Technical Requirements:

• 6-8 years Oracle database administration experience
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a Linux environment
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, including Oracle Analytical Functions, inline views
• Familiarity with Oracle's data dicitonary (v$ and dba_ views)
• Strong experience in designing/deploying Oracle DataGuard including Logical Standby databases
• Performance tuning of database servers and SQL statements
• Experience scripting in bash/perl
• Some familiarity with a monitoring solution: Nagios, Big Brother, etc

Additional Qualifications (nice-to-haves):

• Advanced knowledge of Oracle technologies: Streams, RAC, etc
• Strong Perl coding skills
• Advanced knowledge of LDAP
• Experience writing reports
• Familiarity with SAN storage solutions
• In-depth knowledge of Nagios

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Senior Software Engineer

Posted 4/23/2010
Send Digital Resume To: eng_20100422@vindicia.com

Vindicia is seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer who has significant experience designing and implementing complex applications. You will be responsible for writing server-side code with occasional front-end responsibilities. You will recommend and implement changes to the software that will enable us to optimize, scale and grow.

Responsibilities:

• Write robust production-ready server-side code for web-based applications and develop prototypes quickly
• Design and plan the implementation, including documenting and presenting that design
• Coordinate with business product managers and client services to validate and maintain project requirements
• Develop and execute unit tests, then interact with QA department to coordinate testing activities
• Estimate and meet timelines for development releases
• Lead small teams of engineers on larger projects as needed
• Proactively participate in maintaining team standards and best practices

Requirements:

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical degree
• 10 Years of development experience in designing and delivering complex, large-volume, diverse system applications
• Extensive experience with Object Oriented Perl, Oracle, SQL, Linux and/or Unix derivatives
• Solid knowledge of development methodologies and project life cycles
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

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Senior Linux Systems Administrator, IT Operations Group

Posted 5/11/2010
Send Digital Resume To: tech_201005-1@jobs.vindicia.com

As a member on the fast growing IT Operations team, this position will work closely with other operations engineers to provide 24/7 support for our client facing production environments. Our servers consists of Linux systems and network of heterogeneous hardware.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day configuration, monitoring, and support for our production environment at data centers.
• Deploy software releases to production and customer-facing test environments.
• Install and configure new servers with Linux, applications, tools and patches.
• Resolve systems, application, hardware and network trouble tickets.
• Respond quickly to outages as reported via email, telephone, and/or paging. Participate in production on-call rotation.
• Adhere to PCI compliance guidelines and SAS 70 operation procedures

Qualification Requirements:

• 4 - 6 years IT experience with at minimum of 2 years of Linux administration in a business-critical 24/7/365 production environment
• Full grasp of business uptime requirements and customer SLAs.
• Ability to accomplish multiple projects under minimal supervision.
• Datacenter deployment and maintenance experience.
• Ability to understand and utilize web technologies, open source software and shell scripting.

Additional Experience:

• 2 years of network administration experience, with emphasis on VPN, fault-tolerant networking and security.
• 1 year of fiber-SAN or iSCSI-based SAN administration experience.
• Systems Administrator-level experience of OpenVPN, OpenSSH, Apache, Postfix, DNS/BIND, OpenLDAP, Jira, Subversion, LVM, Confluence, Nagios, Cacti, Zenoss, Samba, Iptables and Linux routing.

Benefits:

• Vindicia offers a full range of benefits including health and vision care with subsidized dependent coverage, stock options, and a company 401(K). Members of the operations team also enjoy a bonus plan based on meeting and exceeding customer SLAs.

Please submit your resume in PDF or HTML format and include a cover page explaining why you are an ideal candidate for this position. Applications not meeting these requirements will not be considered.

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Director, Corporate Marketing

Posted 8/24/2010
Send Digital Resume To: marketing_20100422@vindicia.com

Vindicia is looking for that special someone to lead the corporate marketing group. You will have a vision for how we reach new prospects, optimize the lead-to-sales process, build a compelling online presence, and create traction in our target vertical markets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define strategy and goals around lead generation activities including webinars, trade shows, online advertising, and other programs.
• Craft web site presence and SEO programs.
• Manage and optimize lead nurturing program, including monthly emails to existing database.
• Fine-tune marketing automation infrastructure, define key metrics and constantly measure to improve both programs and process.
• Work closely with sales team to optimize lead flow process
• Hire and manage small team

Job Requirements:

• Deep experience with building and scaling marketing programs, including online marketing
• Clear understanding of social media and how to leverage for lead generation purposes
• Significant experience with marketing automation and CRM software (e.g., Marketo, salesforce.com, etc.)
• Experience with SaaS a plus, but candidates need to have marketed in an enterprise software environment
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with minimal oversight
• Detail oriented.
• Some travel required, specifically to trade shows and events

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Online Marketing Manager

Posted 6/3/2010
Send Digital Resume To: mk_20090421-1@jobs.vindicia.com

Vindicia is seeking an Online Marketing Manager to drive our online marketing strategy. You will be responsible for conceptualizing, planning and executing online marketing programs including Google AdWords, web advertising, and search engine optimization.

This position reports to the Corporate Marketing Director.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage key elements of Company's online marketing plans:
• Work with our web engineer to create and implement a search engine optimization plan for Vindicia.com
• Manage web updates and improvements for Vindicia.com
• Responsible for developing and implementing a web advertising program
• Manage and track our Google AdWords campaign
• Define and measure effectiveness of online programs and optimize for future program iterations.
• Plan and execute our ongoing webinar series.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of experience building online marketing programs for software companies
• Experience with software-as-a-service a plus
• Ability to work quickly and deliver high-quality online programs
• Proven ability to create and execute successful online advertising campaigns
• Metrics driven with a keen understanding of how to measure success
• A can-do attitude with little supervision required
• Experience with Google Analytics, Google AdWords, and search engine optimization a must
• Ability to easily work with multiple functional groups to achieve goals
• Bachelor's degree

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Product Manager

Posted 8/10/2010
Send Digital Resume To: pm_082010@jobs.vindicia.com

Vindicia is seeking an experienced Product Manager with a strong background in software development environments. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter and capable of overseeing product feature enhancements and issue resolution from requirements gathering, prioritization and specification documentation through delivery.

The candidate will work with all internal groups including Executive Staff, Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Client Services and Engineering, as well as clients, partners and vendors. Responsibilities could also include assistance with use case descriptions, functional specifications, test scenarios and outbound Product Marketing. Experience with hosted product delivery and agile development methodologies is a plus, as is experience in the e-commerce, billing or payments spaces. This position will report to the Senior Director, Product Management.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with internal cross-functional teams to build and deliver new features for new and existing merchants.
• Gather and define business and functional requirements.
• Work closely with Merchant Services, Customer Service, Marketing, Business Development and Sales and participates actively in all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Take proactive ownership of product releases and anticipate potential risks, putting appropriate mitigation plans in place.
• Establish and communicate priorities and make smart, informed tradeoffs.
• Contribute to documentation, white papers and other information vehicles to communicate product features, functionality and benefits.

Skills:

• Minimum 5-8 years experience in internet software, and at least 3 years product management experience.
• Self-starter who is highly organized, learns quickly, and is a team player.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple parallel projects and keep to deadlines.
• Proactive leader who takes initiative and demonstrates a high level of accountability.
• Familiar with open-source oriented technologies and architectures.
• Track record of strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Effective and clear communication skills - both to internal teams, external stakeholders, and merchants.
• BS in Engineering strongly desired.

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