Job Description

Windows Administrator

Be an Innovative Agent of Change

Are you a Windows administrator Professional, comfortable working in a fast-paced and innovative environment?

At FTD (NASDAQ:FTD) we continually evolve the business by promoting a culture where solutions from the technology group help transform our lines of business through customer-meaningful solutions, innovative technologies and business-impacting projects.

We are seeking an innovative game changer: a creative problem solving Microsoft engineer equally comfortable with the changing needs of the business and a continually evolving technology group. This highly crucial position will take a central role in building in several core & critical technology areas which are an important component of our high traffic, consumer facing, $1.3B industry leading ecommerce platform. 

What you will contribute:

• Develop collaborative partnerships across internal and external technical support teams to maintain and improve the integrity of the Windows server infrastructure.
• Provide engineering and infrastructure support for application DevOps and deployment activities
• Support SAN infrastructure and storage arrays. Hands-on enterprise-class storage experience is preferred
  • Ability to foster new ideas and concepts and make decisions surrounding complex issues
  • Demonstrated clear and concise verbal and written communication skills at levels appropriate for the intended audience in a professional manner
  • Proven decision-making capabilities
  • Work in collaboration with the project management office to create comprehensive statements of work and detailed project plans involving Windows server infrastructure projects.
  • Participate on server technology implementation and technology evaluation projects as requested.
  • Improve the delivery of information technology services across the enterprise.
  • Assist Network Team in evaluating technology solutions that will improve the delivery of Enterprise server applications.
  • Maintains system performance by performing system monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting system hardware, software, networks and operating and system management systems; designing and running system load/stress testing; escalating application problems to vendor.
  • Secures system by developing system access, monitoring, control, and evaluation; testing disaster recovery policies and procedures; completing back-ups; maintaining documentation and inventory.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

What we offer:

• We encourage and welcome out of the box ideas in all areas like artificial intelligence, data processing and information retrieval, voice capabilities, automation, computer vision, etc.
• Enjoy all the benefits of working for a publicly traded company (stock purchase plan, flexible hours and a healthy vacation plan).
• A relaxed work environment (shorts and sandals always welcome, onsite gym with classes).
• The blending of cultures across multiple cities and 3 continents where you can be part of helping shape our future.
• Lines of business and a technology organization ready to embrace your role and the business value it brings.
• A "flat" organization where you will spend time with business leaders, managers, developers, product management and executive leadership.
• Career opportunities! Those that have positive impact, with a positive approach, have a very bright future as we change, grow, expand and explore new and exciting experiences for our global customer base. 

What we seek: 

• Minimum of 4 years advanced technical knowledge and experience in management of large Windows server environments
• Experience with EMC Avamar data protection solution in an enterprise environment
• Experience supporting high volume, high availability website architectures which include load balancers, web servers, messaging services, caching, CDNs and code deployment
• Hands-on experience with automation tools and Google Cloud Platform, or any other cloud provider
• Installation and configuration of multiple versions of Windows servers running in Active Directory.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure design, implementation and troubleshooting of large VMware ESXi and Virtual center environments
• Experience with server monitoring and capacity planning tools.
• Network management (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP)
• Expertise of Windows based applications of basic principles, theories, and concepts
• Expertise of Third party software integration within a server enterprise environment
• Knowledge/Expertise in supporting and administering centralized storage platforms, including Storage Area Networks. ISCSI and Fibre Channel 

Come join our team and be part of an exciting transformation! While you are part of the office of technology, you will have a broader impact on the overall growth of the business. 

Come give FTD a look! This position will be based in San Diego, CA. We are an incredibly open and welcoming company--come join our family!

FTD Companies is a global premier floral and gifting company with a vision to be the leading and most trusted floral and gifting company in the world. We provide floral, specialty foods, gift and related products and services to consumers, retail florists, and other retail locations and companies in need of floral and gifting solutions.