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CashNetUSA is an online consumer lending company with offices in downtown Chicago and Lake Bluff, Illinois. The Company was founded in 2004 by a dynamic management team with roots in Silicon Valley and Wall Street and has grown at a tremendous pace since inception. The Company currently provides short-term consumer financing solutions in over 30 states and continues to experience tremendous growth and profitability. The company recently launched operations in the United Kingdom and is looking at other overseas expansion opportunities.

CashNetUSA fosters an entrepreneurial environment that is staffed with bright and energetic individuals. The company is searching for talented individuals to fill multiple positions, and there are many opportunities to lead high visibility projects sponsored by C-level executives. Learn how fact-based analyses guide our quick decisions in a fun and entrepreneurial surrounding.

Responsibilities:
• Lead a team of Jr. System Administrators/Application Support personnel guiding and mentoring them to ensure prompt and accurate resolution of most problems escalated through Helpdesk
• Train junior staff as well as set direction and implement processes for 2nd tier escalations of IT Operations teams
• Lead projects independently and work with other IT members to ensure their success
• Lead daily operations and support activities of the Systems & Application Support teams
• Guide and assist team members to keep projects on track
• Implement best practices such as security, OS patching, networking, code deployment and configuration management
• Analyze, recommend, and implement configuration and hardware changes
• Troubleshoot, diagnose complex problems and provide potential recommendations for resolution of issues
• Support complex web-based applications as well as internal IT systems
Qualifications:
• Experience implementing and maintaining managed production environments
• Good understanding of networking including routing, VLAN, VPNs, etc.
• Experience with web development technologies and tools
• Supporting a large number of users in multiple locations a plus
• Established track of team leadership on projects
• Scripting in languages such as bash, Perl, Ruby
• Wizard at Unix shell scripting and expert at Unix command line
• Good understanding of inner workings of Microsoft operating systems, including techniques of remote administration and scripting
• Experience with Linux or flavors of Unix from perspective of system administration in production environment are required
• Experience with LDAP, Samba, Postfix, and related tools a plus
• Experience with high availability and load environments with large data volumes at multiple locations a plus
• Experience with Asterisk PBX or exposure to phone technologies a plus
• Good working knowledge of SQL a plus
• PostgreSQL or other ‘real’ database experiences a major plus
• Good verbal and written communication skills are important
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years of UNIX system administration

Environment:

PostgreSQL 8 database on Linux - Debian/Ubuntu
Ruby/Rails web applications

Email resumes to emanly@cashnetusa.com or apply via website at www.cashnetusa.com/careers