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Are you looking to work for a profitable, top-flight software development company utilizing your skills to create and distribute sophisticated investment management products? An opportunity with Zephyr Associates, Inc. may be just what you are looking for. Zephyr Associates is a leading financial analytics company providing advanced investment analysis software. Our software is used by an ever-growing collection of institutional money managers, pension funds, and consultants to manage billion dollar portfolios worldwide. Be a part of a small, rapidly growing, profitable firm with unbounded potential.
Corporate IT Administrator
Zephyr Associates is seeking a Corporate IT (CIT) Administrator to join us at our main office on the shores of Lake Tahoe, minutes from Heavenly Ski Resort and Nevada Beach.
The CIT Administrator will assume responsibility for the daily administration of Zephyr’s core business systems and provide end-user desktop support.
- Maintain internal business systems and applications within specified guidelines of availability and performance, keeping outages within acceptable limits
- Ensure the security and integrity of business systems and applications through regular updates and verification of backup and recovery strategies
- Provide staff with advanced technical support for Zephyr’s internal business systems and applications
- Collaborate with business units to identify areas of improvement within IT systems, propose solutions to address problem areas, and implement approved IT solutions
- Research, architect, and implement new technologies that bolster Zephyr’s technological position and meet company goals
- Perform planning for additional IT capacity to meet current and future growth needs
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation of business systems and applications
- Escalate issues to senior staff, vendors, and stakeholders, communicating as necessary the status of IT systems
- Moderate knowledge of Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory (LDAP), Exchange Email, SQL Server, Terminal Server, Dynamics CRM and Solomon
- Basic knowledge of network protocols, services and technologies such as TCP/IP, Ethernet, LAN/WAN, DNS, DHCP, VPN and Firewall
- Basic knowledge of server and desktop operating systems such as Linux (RHEL, CentOS), Windows (Server 2003/2008, Windows XP/7), and VMWare (ESX/vSphere)
- Basic knowledge of server hardware and components such as HP ProLiant DL Series and Dell PowerEdge
- Basic knowledge of mass storage technologies such as NAS (CIFS, NFS), SAN (iSCSI) and Tape Backup
- Cisco ASA appliances and Catalyst switches
- HP ProCurve switches
- Atlassian applications - Confluence, JIRA, Fisheye, Crucible
- Traditional and IP Telephony - T1, ISDN, ShoreTel
- Systems Management platforms - Zenoss, Nagios, Cacti
- RIM BES, Blackberry
- Wireless network access
- Competitive salary and benefits package including health and dental
Zephyr Cove, NV (Lake Tahoe Office)
Please submit two documents: a resume and a brief cover letter describing your previous experience and why you believe you would be well-suited for the position. Submit resumes and cover letters as email attachments in PDF format to jobs@styleadvisor.com. No phone calls please.
Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform Systems
Zephyr Associates is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our web product team at our office on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Join us now and receive a credit toward a Heavenly ski pass!
The right candidate will contribute to development and maintenance of our product reporting and analytical cluster, which is used by some of the world's largest financial firms.
We are a diverse, fast moving team with a growing user base. We use multiple technologies to support our production systems including Linux, Windows, Java, C++, C#, mongoDB, and SQL Server.
- Flexible, intellectually curious, server-side engineer who is unafraid of learning and using multiple technologies
- Strong knowledge of relational databases including Microsoft SQL Server and Postgres
- In depth server programming experience in C, Java, C#, or Python
- Command of TCP/IP and HTTP protocols and APIs
- Strong understanding of the trade-offs in common concurrency models
- Experience implementing and documenting REST or Web Service APIs
- Experience using and/or writing modules for reverse proxy applications like nginx
- Experience building applications which use event driven I/O
- MS SQL Server administration and development
- Production system administration
- Cloud development (AWS, Google App Engine, etc.)
- Knowledge of modern scripting languages like Python
- Competitive salary and benefits package including health and dental
Zephyr Cove, NV (Lake Tahoe Office)
To apply, please submit a resume and brief cover letter describing why you believe you would be well-suited for the position to chris@styleadvisor.com. Cover letters should be in the body of the email and provide a link to your resume or an attached copy. Text, PDF, and HTML formats are preferred. No phone calls please.
Software Engineer, Data Systems
Zephyr Associates is seeking a Software Engineer to join us at our main office on the shores of Lake Tahoe, minutes from Heavenly Ski Resort.
Zephyr, as a financial analytics company, processes a large amount financial data from vendors throughout the industry. The Data Systems team maintains a production system which aggregates and packages the data for use in our products and on our web site. This is an opportunity to contribute to a high-profile system which is critical to the ongoing success of our business.
While we primarily work in the Python language in a Windows environment, we will consider all previous relevant programming experience.
- High value on software system quality and reliability
- Broad knowledge of data text processing technologies such as RegEx, Python, Perl, and XML processing (SAX/DOM)
- Solid understanding of SQL and relational database design
- Client side understanding of internet and web technology such as TCP/IP, HTTP, and FTP
- Experience implementing a sophisticated data aggregation system in the financial services market or beyond
- Experience with ETL data management systems
- .NET and/or Java development
- MS SQL Server administration and development
- Installer creation
- Web and User interface design
- Production system administration
- Cloud deployment
- Comfort with multiple system environments including Windows and Linux
- Competitive salary and benefits package including health and dental
Zephyr Cove, NV (Lake Tahoe Office)
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter explaining why you believe you would be a good candidate for the position to chris@styleadvisor.com. No phone calls please.
Product Support Specialist
- Provides support to our clients/prospects surrounding basic and advanced usage of our software products
- Serves as a backup to the Client Consulting team for hosting online product trainings
- Educates clients/prospects on investment management concepts and statistics
- Passes product enhancement requests from clients/prospects to our Development team as well as suggests enhancements
- Troubleshoots incorrect functionality in our software reported by clients, prospects, and internal users and reports these to Development when necessary
- Tests pre-release versions of our software and provides feedback to Development
- Contributes articles to our Knowledge Base
- Suggests revisions to existing product documentation and recommends new documentation
- Trains internal staff on new/modified features of our software with each release, as well as known issues for product features and how to work around them
- Ad-hoc tasks
- 1-3+ years using Zephyr products, particularly StyleADVISOR
- 1-3+ years using Windows and Microsoft Office products
- 1-3+ years in a customer service role, preferably a call center environment
- Investment management knowledge including returns based style analysis and basic statistics
- Strong math skills including creating formulas in Excel
- Comfortable learning new software with little guidance
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Strong documentation skills
- Ability to provide solid presentations publicly or online
- Ability to articulate instructions verbally and in writing
- Microsoft SQL, Citrix, Windows Installer, and other technical knowledge
- Bilingual, preferably Spanish
- Competitive salary and benefits package including health and dental
Zephyr Cove, NV (Lake Tahoe Office)
Monday through Friday, various shifts available. Submit resumes to jobs@styleadvisor.com. No phone calls please.
Technical Support Representative
- Assists clients/prospects with installation and configuration of all Zephyr products, as well as data and other third party products.
- Provides support to our clients/prospects surrounding basic usage of our software.
- Troubleshoots errors, crashes, and other technical issues reported by clients, prospects, and internal users and reports these to Development when necessary.
- Tests pre-release versions of our software and provides feedback to Development.
- Contributes technical articles to our Knowledge Base.
- Suggests revisions to existing technical documentation and recommends new documentation.
- Maintains awareness of new and changing technologies and provides recommendations to Development on preparing our software for these changes.
- Trains internal staff on technical changes to our software with each release, as well as technical issues that arise and how to fix them.
- Maintains Microsoft certification to ensure the company's status in the Microsoft Partner Program.
- Other duties as assigned.
- 1-3+ years experience in Windows system administration or related education.
- 1-3+ years experience in Microsoft SQL Server administration or related education.
- 1-3+ years experience in Citrix administration or related education.
- 1-3+ years experience in a customer service role, preferably a call center environment.
- Strong troubleshooting skills.
- Strong documentation skills.
- Ability to provide solid presentations publicly or online.
- Ability to articulate instructions verbally and in writing.
- Microsoft certification, preferably related to SQL 2005 or newer
- Bilingual, preferably Spanish
- Financial knowledge
- Zephyr product knowledge, particularly StyleADVISOR
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
Zephyr Cove, NV (Lake Tahoe Office)
Hours: Monday - Friday, various shifts available. *Some flexibility required. Submit resumes to jobs@styleadvisor.com. No phone calls please.