Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a holding company, is a global specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of generic and proprietary pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Operating through its principal subsidiaries including Barr Laboratories, Inc., Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Pliva d.d. and its subsidiaries, the Barr Group of companies markets more than 120 generic and 25 proprietary products within the U.S. and more than 550 products internationally.

With more than 8,000 employees worldwide who share a commitment to bringing these affordable generic and unique proprietary products to our customers, Barr has annual revenues in excess of $2 billion through our commitment to and significant investment in new product research and development.

We have an outstanding career opportunity for a successful Global Antivirus/Spam Administrator located in our Upper Saddle River, New Jersey offices.

Position Summary:

This position offers the ability to work with our dynamic Information Technology group to manage and administer the antivirus policies for the company. This is an excellent opportunity for a success driven Antivirus Administrator to join a fast paced, rapidly growing organization. This position reports to the Associate Director of Infrastructure and will have global responsibility.

Responsibilities include:

• Perform engineering, administrative and operational functions on Anti-virus, spam technologies.
  
• Global Symantec antivirus engineering and administrative roles as they pertain to the overall business goals of the company and for maintaining world-class service levels and systems availability.
  
• Lead a team that manages a global antivirus infrastructure.
  
• Recommend and implement policies and software to protect Barr's static and mobile IT resources against malicious code
  
• Proactively identify gaps in current environment and propose solutions.
  
• Managed an antivirus infrastructure spanning multiple locations with 500+ mobile users
  
• Maintains global Anti-virus, spam environment.
  
• Carry out Operating System and software upgrades as required.
  
• Manage multiple tasks as well as service requests and incident resolution.
  
• Provide on-site and off-site support.
  
• Produce and maintain documentation of all procedures
  

• BS degree in a technical discipline with 3+ years of antivirus, spam administrator experience or at 6+ years of antivirus, spam administrator experience.
  
• Experience in a regulatory compliance environment preferred.
  
• Demonstrated understanding of major application server platforms - MS SQL, Oracle, Exchange, Apache, IIS, etc. and the types of malicious code they are vulnerable to
  
• Symantec Antivirus, Ironport, and/or Sygate Protection Agent experience a plus
  
• A deep understanding of Microsoft and Linux based operating systems and how they can be compromised by malicious software
  
• Proven ability to communicate with senior management in a professional and articulate manner.
  
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior server administrators and peers
  
• Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal