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The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

• 7 Years Experience in systems management including relevant software, operating, and database systems with a proven ability to exercise discretional independent judgment.

• Leadership
  Exercises leadership role with staff and clients to promote customer satisfaction and staff development. Provide guidance and direction to junior staff regarding work performance and business operations.
  Provides Input into performance evaluations of Technical Systems Administrators
  Mentors other staff members and teams regarding applications and business operations as it relates to the system.
  Trains new IS staff in system functions and operations in order to maximize user effectiveness and utilization of systems and ensures staff is cross-trained on multiple applications and systems as required.
  Reviews the need for refresher or update training at least once annually and provides or coordinates training as required with management.
  Independent worker with ability to make sound judgments based on a wide spectrum of distinct issues and work with no supervision.
• Network administration
  Installs and configures system software and associated application tools related to systems administration ensuring operating system and layered product versions are current and compatible with application certifications utilizing best practices and discretion ensuring all licensing requirements are satisfied. Analyzes and documents issues arising from operating system and layered product version upgrades collaborating with vendors and Sharp leadership when deemed necessary.
  Identifies opportunities to upgrade and improve service and coordinates such activities ensuring maximum system availability and integrity while minimizing user impact.
  Collaborates with system administrators, database administrators, application support; designing hardware/software configuration to ensure maximum performance and reliability remaining compliant with vendor requirements.
  Plans for recovery or fallback to prior versions in the instance of unforeseen issues or substantial delays in upgrade duration.
  Develops training materials and/or trains application support staff on database changes and assists in the development of application test plans that target operating system and layered product changes ensuring application and database integrity.
  Plans and estimates system downtimes necessary to execute system upgrades taking into consideration application and database resources needed. Identifies alternative approaches to minimize system downtime.
• System performance
  Utilizes effective and creative system performance management techniques to ensure optimal system performance and space utilization. Identifies and resolves sub-optimal system performance and storage challenges utilizing creative efforts, best judgment, and discretion. Designs action plans to address issue remediation and communicates plans to appropriate management and staff.
  Documents cause and effect for anomalies and identifies preventive measures.
  Proposes and implements creative solutions to operational and infrastructure issues with follow-through to resolution.
  Identifies opportunities for data archiving and purging and deduplication. Ensures that available archiving and purging activities are implemented per Sharp business decisions.
• System security
  Insures all systems are sufficiently secured to meet or exceed both application and organizational requirements by ensuring adequate backups are performed and validated to facilitate recovery within application service level agreements. Monitor systems for integrity, identify system integrity issues and engage database administrators, system programmers, application leads, and vendors to strategize and correct integrity issues.
  Ensures Tests validity of backups by performing regular recovery drills ensuring all databases are fully recoverable.
  Ensures that solid system back-ups are in place before major changes to systems (upgrades, downtimes, etc).
  Analyzes root cause and works to ensure preventive measures are implemented to avoid future integrity issues.
  Participates in appropriate forums to ensure the implications of proposed application, operating system, infrastructure and database additions and modifications will have no adverse impact on system performance or availability.
  Verifies all change management policies and procedures are adhered to for all changes that affect the database.
  Abide to and enforce ISD policies for migrating changes to all test and production environments.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class