System Administrator
ZinniaSummary
Zinnia is seeking a System Administrator to join their platform team. You will be responsible for the design, development, configuration, and maintenance of Zinnia's software platforms, working with stakeholders to create efficient solutions. This role involves daily administration of Linux/Windows based Middle Tier solutions, troubleshooting, and supporting cloud-hosted environments. The ideal candidate has 1-3 years of experience in managing middle-tier applications, familiarity with middleware technologies and monitoring tools, and basic knowledge of cloud platforms and DevOps tools.
Required Skills
Details
- Experience Required
- 1+ years
- Posted
- Jul 3, 2026
Description
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-call rotations and/or provide after-hours (Odd and Night Shift) support.
• Collaborate with our global teams, internal stakeholders and customers.
• Provide guidance and escalated support to the Zinnia offshore team
• Conduct root-cause analysis as needed to the platforms and create improved standard operating procedures and troubleshooting guidance
• Provide support on multiple Cloud Hosted environments using Cloud Technology.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
• 1 to 3 years of experience in Managing middle-tier applications on hosted servers.
• Familiar on Middleware application performance monitoring using SNMP, JMX and any other monitoring tool (IPM, Nagios).
• Familiar on Middleware technologies – Any of Wildfly/JBOSS, Tomcat, and Apache Web Server.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities in Linux/Windows servers.
• Basic knowledge in AWS / Azure.
• Basic knowledge in DevOps Tools like Jenkins, Artifactory (JFrog), etc.
• Basic knowledge in Bash or Perl or Python script writing.
• Basic knowledge of SSL Certificate Management.
• Basic knowledge of Java Key Store Management.
BONUS POINTS:
• Good to have working experience on enterprise-level applications/products.
• Experience working in the insurance industry is advantageous.
• Any certification (RHCSA, RHCE, AWS, Azure) would be advantage
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
At Zinnia, you collaborate with smart, creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at www.zinnia.com for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.