OIPA System Administration Lead

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🖥️ Administration

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1900

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

💰 $250M Post-IPO Debt - Globe Life on 2024-08

Consulting • Healthcare • Insurance

Globe Life is a U. S. -based life insurance company that provides individual life insurance policies and related products through a network of agents and direct channels. The company emphasizes customer service, agent careers, and long-term financial protection for families, and is financially rated by independent analysts for strength and stability.

📋 Description

• Oversee Release Management and Environment/System Administration functions within the Policy Administration System (PAS) program. • Lead and mentor Release Managers and System Administrators. • Set standards for deployment and environment governance. • Serve as primary escalation point for release readiness, infrastructure stability, patch compliance, and SDLC adherence across OIPA environments. • Manage, coach, and evaluate PAS Release Management and System Administration team members. • Assign work, set priorities, monitor workloads, and provide professional development guidance. • Lead project meetings with technical and business stakeholders and train team members on OIPA release and environment best practices. • Review and approve external vendor invoices. • Establish release management standards across strategic PAS initiatives. • Coordinate enterprise change control processes and attend weekly production CAB meetings. • Review and approve migration change-control documentation, assign version tracking, and maintain audit trails in the enterprise ticketing system. • Track production incidents, create emergency change-control documentation, and close incidents after resolution verification. • Coordinate PAS configuration and BPM deployments, IVS cross-track deployments, and table copying between environments. • Maintain the release calendar for major and minor release windows. • Define deployment-readiness guidelines and coordinate post-deployment validation testing. • Track release risks, issues, and dependencies. • Maintain communications and distribution lists for releases across legacy and ancillary applications. • Direct configuration migrations via Oracle Rules Palette (OIRP). • Manage PAS System Administration resources across multiple data centers and monitor OIPA application and database servers. • Review environment health checks and resolve performance or capacity concerns. • Coordinate database and application-server tuning, including clustering, CPU, memory, and thread-pool recommendations. • Coordinate new environment builds, complex deployments, migrations, and OIPA upgrades. • Coordinate Oracle Exa patches, YUM updates, OIPA base-code updates, and OIRP updates. • Attend vulnerability reviews and coordinate remediation; serve as point of contact for PAS Information Security exceptions. • Review SSL certificate status and coordinate replacements before expiration. • Serve as point of contact for Oracle ASR hardware monitoring, Service Express, and My Oracle Support access. • Maintain PAS and BPM ticket categories, resource assignments, and on-call listings in Cherwell. • Collaborate with internal OIPA Configuration teams and Oracle Development on OIPA Service Requests. • Report to the Director of IT Application Development.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, or equivalent work experience. • Minimum 7 years of experience in IT application development or operations roles. • Minimum 2 years of experience in a lead, supervisory, or management capacity. • Experience with OIPA Components Deployment with WebLogic. • Experience with Oracle Linux system administration and WebLogic administration. • Experience with Oracle system administration tools including OEM, Admin Server, and Data Guard. • Experience with OIPA database and application upgrades and OIPA Release Management. • Experience with database backup tools such as Rubrik and RMAN. • Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and hold accountable a cross-functional technical team. • Strong understanding of IT SDLC processes and Agile project methodologies. • Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities under pressure while ensuring environments meet established SLAs. • Strong communication skills to convey technical information clearly to technical and business audiences. • Proficiency with enterprise ticketing systems such as Cherwell or ServiceNow. • Familiarity with Oracle Insurance Policy Administration (OIPA) and Oracle Insurance Rules Palette (OIRP). • Reliable and predictable attendance of your assigned shift. • Ability to work full time and/or part time based on position specifications. • Experience with Oracle Exalogic and Exadata is a plus. • Experience with Oracle Admin Server and the OIPA nightly Cycle is a plus. • OIPA implementation experience for multiple clients is a plus. • Knowledge of Oracle IVS, Oracle SOA, MuleSoft, and BPM is a plus. • Knowledge of AWS and Oracle OCI cloud computing is a plus. • Working knowledge of insurance life and health products across individual, group, and worksite markets is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation designed to reflect your expertise and contribution. • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans • Robust life insurance benefits • Retirement plans, including company-matched 401k and pension plan • Paid holidays and time off • Parental leave • Subsidized all-in-one subscriptions supporting fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep • Company-paid counseling for mental health, stress management, and work-life balance • Continued education reimbursement eligibility • Company-paid FLMI and ICA courses • Discounted Texas Rangers tickets

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