Digital Services

MRi’s next-gen digital services arm your brand with the technology it needs to give your marketing promotions a competitive edge and put your brand on top of the marketing world.

Industry-Leading Tech Solutions

Stay Ahead of the Trends and Meet Your Consumer’s Needs

We’re proud to offer leading digital services and technology solutions to help your brand make the most out of promotional marketing opportunities. 

From making meaningful connections with your consumers in a virtual world, to providing necessary context to your results through careful digital analysis, MRi develops custom-built digital experiences tailored to your brand to bring your purpose-driven digital promotions to life and put you on top of the marketing world!

Blue Bunny Promotional Campaign Truck

Digital Services Built to Take Your Promotion Further

Support your purpose-driven promotion with our innovative digital solutions. Our team of experts will suggest relevant promotion and digital service pairings for your brand.

Website Development

Create a visually stunning digital experience to bring your campaign to life. Guide users to engage with a site that aligns with your goals.

OCR/Receipt Scanning

Optical Character Recognition offers an easy, cost-efficient way to execute customer loyalty or purchase incentive promotions.

Visual Recognition

Enhance your promotional campaigns and activate a digital experience with our industry-leading visual recognition technology.

Unique Codes

Our industry-leading secure online system allows your brand to generate unique codes as a key component of your promotional game, sweepstakes, or loyalty program.

Data analysis

Extract valuable insights from key data points with targeted capturing, management, and analysis of your brand’s consumer data.

Geofencing

Connect with your target consumers wherever they are through strategic geofencing promotional campaigns.

Mobile App Development

In this mobile-first world, meet your consumers’ needs with custom mobile app development for convenient access to your loyalty program.

Voice Activation

Delight tech-savvy consumers with personalized voice activation as part of your next promotional campaign and offer quick, real-time connections with your brand.

Augmented Reality

Strengthen your loyalty programs and digital games with an immersive augmented reality experience.

Campaign Optimization

Ensure your brand stays on top of the marketing world with our consultative approach to campaign optimization. Give new and existing campaigns a boost with MRi!

Digital Rewards

Create a seamless promotional experience and offer instant gratification with a digital gift card or reward consumers directly by linking to their digital wallets.

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Systems and Network Administrator

About Us

Marketing Resources, Inc. is a leading promotional marketing agency that specializes in purpose-driven promotions. With over 25 years in the business, MRi helps brands Identify, Develop, Execute, and Analyze promotions and marketing projects that consumers love. We’re a team full of committed, passionate, solutions-driven, hands-on, and innovative individuals who collaborate to bring success to our client’s programs.

Overview

The System and Network Administrator plays a critical role on the MRi Digital team, and overall in the success of our company. They are responsible for the day-to-day administration and technical support of complex Linux servers, Virtual Infrastructure and Systems Management, and maintenance and support of end-user systems. You’ll be working closely with our teams on client projects and making sure our internal systems are updated and secure. 

Our ideal candidate will be proactive, have great organizational skills, not shy away from communication with our teams, think through and help solve different problems, and gain an understanding of our business to help our team achieve amazing results.

In this role, we’re looking for that person who does not accept average.

You will help us create the best digital, promotions, products, and campaigns to achieve our client’s marketing goals. MRi takes pride in our ability to constantly push the boundaries of development in the digital promotions space, and you will take an active role in working closely with our client services, business development, creative, and project management team to guide, develop, and deliver exceptional work for our clients and partners.

Our ideal candidate will be proactive, have great organizational skills, not shy away from communication with our teams, think through and help solve different problems, and gain an understanding of our business to help our team achieve amazing results.

Responsibilities May Include

  • Design, install, configure, upgrade, maintain, monitor, and tune performance of Linux-based servers and infrastructure, both internal and client-related promotions.
  • Provide support for problems and issues that come up from our clients, vendors, and internal teams.
  • Examine and audit various server logs and determine if any corrective action is required.
  • Review releases of new operating systems and evaluate the implementation in the enterprise.
  • Install, configure, and maintain server firewall and other security software.
  • Identify and provide technical resolution for potential security breaches, then establish and monitor security and apply appropriate fixes.
  • Implement and maintain technical solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity of enterprise and client systems.
  • Select the ideal server hardware for the company’s needs and administer physical server hardware, including repair and replacement of parts as necessary.
  • Monitor and maintain proper end-user system security by ensuring operating systems and software are up-to-date and applying patches as necessary.
  • Maintenance and support of all end-user service accounts including Office365, Google Workspace, hosted VoIP accounts.

The Essentials

  • 1-2 years of experience in Linux server administration in a small to midsize environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree or minimum 4 years of related work experience.
  • Able to effectively plan, deploy and administer Linux servers in an enterprise environment.
  • Strong familiarity with Linux OS, Windows, macOS, application, and hardware troubleshooting.
  • Familiarity with VMware ESXi and XenServer/XCP-NG, DigitalOcean, Amazon AWS, and Docker.
  • Networking and Storage – Familiarity with pfSense (*BSD pf) firewalls, Ubiquiti network gear, Synology NAS equipment, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and AFP file protocols.  TCP/IP, UDP, and VLAN. configurations to manage networking and storage.  
  • Ability to compose thorough and clear documentation on routine tasks, standard operating procedures, and other documents beneficial to team members.

You’ll stand out if you have experience with

  • Debian-based Linux or Ubuntu operating systems, roles, services, concepts, security, permissions, middleware, and facilities required. (e.g. SMTP, NFS, SMB, iptables, LVM, LUKS).
  • Amazon AWS S3, EC2, and ElasticBeanstalk required.
  • Samba4 as an Active Directory Domain Controller, Administering Active Directory through. the use of GPOs and OUs.
  • Supporting Windows and macOS systems.
  • Scripting concepts and methods with competence in at least one relevant language (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl, etc.)
  • Internet clients/servers/protocols, including HTTPS, SSH, MTAs (e.g. Postfix).
  • An ability to explain complex technical processes in a more simplified version to team members, clients, and partners.
  • Experience with IT project management practices and techniques.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.

The Perks

  • Medical insurance options
  • Dental insurance
  • 401(K) plan with company match
  • Flexible remote work policy
  • Paid sick days
  • Generous vacation and paid holidays

Interested in applying?

Send Resumes to resumes@marketingresources.com