System Administrator

WHO WE ARE: Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders. WHO YOU ARE: Play a key role in the design, development/configuration, unit testing, installation, and ongoing maintenance of Zinnia software platforms. Solution Engineers work with stakeholders to develop solutions and/or products that fulfil the needs of internal stakeholders and clients. Those solutions and/or products help Zinnia and our clients to be more efficient and provide better service to end customers. Solution Engineers interact directly with project leaders, business stakeholders, and may periodically interact directly with clients. Solution Engineers will facilitate, lead, and enable more junior team members by acting as a mentor for soft skills and/or technical subject matter expert. Solution Engineers will frequently work across multiple platforms to drive, define, and facilitate platform architecture and standards. Solution Engineers stay abreast of industry trends and advocate, educate, and drive the organization to new technologies. WHAT YOU’LL DO: • Work as part of a global, cross-functional team to design and administer Linux / Windows based Middle Tier (Tomcat, Apache, WildFly, etc) solutions for Zinnia stakeholders. • Contribute to projects by creating well-designed, customized, testable, efficient solutions for Zinnia platforms. • Assist in providing ongoing support, troubleshooting, improvements, or custom enhancements to the existing Zinnia platforms. • Participate in on