Information Technology - Systems Administrator

Provide enterprise-wide system infrastructure support for effective installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure, as well as ensuring that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values.

This individual will assist project teams with technical issues in the initiation and planning phases of our standard Project Management Methodology. These activities include: defining the needs, benefits, and technical strategy; the research & development within the project lifecycle; the technical analysis and design and the support of operations staff in executing, testing and rolling-out the solutions. Project participation is focused on smoothing the transition of projects from development staff to production staff.

∙Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.

∙Research and recommend innovative and automated approaches for system administration tasks.

∙Maintain and extend Cisco/pfsense environment with connectivity to Azure

∙Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

∙Perform proactive monitoring for high availability, system data protection, backup and restore, user

account management, disk storage management, hardware and OS maintenance and application maintenance.

∙Provide data protection, recovery and business continuity; test and validate disaster recovery and

business continuity methods in the environment.

∙Provide technical support to project teams for various software applications.

∙Perform system software management; identify appropriate patches and necessary system environments for purchased software.

∙Provide Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.

∙Other duties as assigned.

∙Five+ years’ experience providing Windows systems administration.

∙Strong Windows and Linux administration skills.

∙High Availability techniques in a mixed Windows Linux environment and ability to identify opportunities for automation of Ops services.

∙The ability to perform OS and application software updates in a Windows and Linux environment.

∙Experience with Cloud (Microsoft Azure) environment is a Plus.

∙Maintaining internal documentation through Confluence.

∙Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to work within strict deadlines.

-Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

∙Minimum of five years’ experience.

∙Prefer Microsoft or network related certifications