Sr. Systems Administrator

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

• Responsible for technical strategy, vetting, evaluation, architecting, design, configuration, implementation, administration, optimization, incident prevention, capacity planning and maintenance of the companys Global IT enterprise.
• Including On Premise or Cloud Data Centers, DR Sites, Company HQ and Offices Collocated, Hybrid or Cloud hosted.
• Responsible for day to day technical management including vendor technical management.
• Adherence to all company IT governance policies and best practices.
• Creation of detailed Project plans for all initiatives including ones that can impact production and other environments.
• Position will resolve or coordinate resolution the most technically difficult problems including all that require in-depth and complete evaluation of all and varying factors.
• Support and maintain company Systems environments.
• Collaboratively interface with Development team and SQL DBA.
• Act as the final technical escalation point. Train and mentor Jr. Sys Admin and Service Desk support team.

REQUIRED SYS ADMIN JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Multiple Data Centers environment experience required On Premise, Hybrid and Cloud.
• Data Centers Technical Management experience required.
• Implement, optimize and maintain primarily Nutanix based clusters minimum version 5.10 software.

Secondarily VMware environments minimum version 6.1 software

• Minimum Server 2016 experience; Minimum PC OS 2010 experience.
• Active Directory, DNS and DHCP 2016 extensive experience.
• Exchange 2016 Server administration and support dual server for high availability.
• Microsoft M365 Hybrid Environment Technical Management experience On Premise and Cloud.
• Citrix and Citrix Netscaler farms (version 7.5.1000 or higher).
• SharePoint minimum version 2013.
• Security and mitigation management.
• Load Balancing management.
• Disk and Tape backup management.
• Software Upgrade Management.
• Change Management, Patch Management, Incident Management.
• Asset Management - Commercial software and hardware. CMDB management.
• Enterprise Monitoring, Alerting and Incident prevention.
• Retention Management (Disk, Tape and Cloud).
• Morning Health Check management and reporting.
• Actively seeks out opportunities to improve existing process, practice, procedure, and technology
• Develops and maintains operational guidelines for the maintenance and support of Infrastructure.
• Provide reports for system health, configuration and capacity. Perform routine health checks.
• Perform root cause analysis of service problems and develop permanent fixes.
• Delivery of solutions and configurations without impacting users or during approved maintenance windows.
• Ensure processes are documented and up to date.
• Knowledge of network and file/print services (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, DFS, FRS, etc.).
• Knowledge and familiarity with computer hardware including PCs, servers, appliances and printers.
• Knowledge of application packaging and deployment solutions (for both server and end node deployment).
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
• Scripting/PowerShell experience.
• Knowledge of Information Security.
• Other related duties as assigned.

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related area and 10 yrs. of experience as a Senior Sys Admin.
• Master Degree in in Computer Science or related area preferred.

DESIRED ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Service oriented, prompt and courteous.
• Positive attitude and enthusiastic about job.
• Ability to adapt to changes.
• Ability to express verbally and in writing clearly and succinctly.
• Able to cope with stressing situations.
• Special attention to detail.
• Sense of urgency.
• Excellent follow-up and organizational capabilities.
• Ability to work well individually and with others as part of a team.
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact in a multi cultural environment
• Highly self-motivated, self-directed, and attentive to detail.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced, team-oriented and collaborative environment.

ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE/ITEMS ENVIRONMENT PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE

• ADFS
• Certifícate Authority Server
• Cisco VPN and AnyConnect
• Developer Express
• DFS
• Enterprise Vault
• Executrac Print Management
• Fax2Mail
• File Shares
• FTP/SFTP
• Genetec Access Controls
• General Dynamics Great Plains
• IIS
• Intune MDM
• MimeCast
• MS SQL 2012, 2017 and 2017
• Office 2010
• Outlook 2016
• Outlook Web Mail
• Networking in a Cisco environment
• PRTG
• Radius
• Samanage Service Desk
• SCCM
• Skype for Business
• SolarWinds
• Sophos AV, Web Filtering, Malware protection, Clean tool
• SQL 2008, SQL 2012, SQL 2016 and SQL 2017 environments including High Availability
• SQL Deadlock Detector
• TFS
• Veeam for Nutanix and VMware
• Visual Studio 2017
• Windows 7 & 10
• WinMagic Encryption
• Hardware SuperMicro & HP Servers, Dell EqualLogic & Thinkmate NAS, EMC VNX SAN, Overland Tape Backup, Kemp Load Balancer, Cisco & Meraki Routers, Gateways, Switches, Firewalls and APs.