What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Administrator position at Dermatology Partners?
Description:
System Administrator
Description
Join us at Dermatology Partners, where your career flourishes alongside your health and happiness. Your future starts here-let's grow together!
Discover the Benefits of Joining Dermatology Partners!
Our Core Values Are:
Working closely with the Facilities/IT Manager and internal development resources, the System Administrator helps deploy scalable, automated, and standardized systems across all sites. This includes supporting software initiatives, improving technical workflows, and implementing high-impact solutions that streamline operations and ultimately enhance patient care.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be As a System Administrator:
What we look for:
System Administrator
Description
Join us at Dermatology Partners, where your career flourishes alongside your health and happiness. Your future starts here-let's grow together!
Discover the Benefits of Joining Dermatology Partners!
- No Nights or Weekends
- Growth Opportunity
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- PTO & Paid Holiday’s
- 401 (k) with 4% employee match-Fully Vested
- Company paid Life Insurance
- Options of additional Life insurance, Short & Long term disability, Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
- Employee Discount
- Referral Bonus
- Employee Appreciation Day: Dorney Park in Fall
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Our Core Values Are:
- Grow Together
- Seize Opportunity from Struggle
- Outcome Over Ego
- Commitment to Serve
- Do The Right Thing
Working closely with the Facilities/IT Manager and internal development resources, the System Administrator helps deploy scalable, automated, and standardized systems across all sites. This includes supporting software initiatives, improving technical workflows, and implementing high-impact solutions that streamline operations and ultimately enhance patient care.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be As a System Administrator:
- Infrastructure & Systems Management
- Administer and maintain enterprise systems including rack servers, virtualization platforms, domain services, storage, and backups/snapshots.
- Implement and maintain High Availability (HA) across key servers and supporting infrastructure.
- Manage existing Proxmox environments and Proxmox Backup OS for critical asset protection.
- Ensure comprehensive redundancy—backups, HA, RAID—and maintain documented disaster recovery pathways.
- Maintain hardware, firmware, BIOS, and patching schedules for mission-critical systems and storage pools (HDD/SSD arrays).
- Implement and uphold security best practices: permission structures, credential management, SSH hardening, firewall and IDS/IPS configuration.
- Partner with the IT Manager and in-house programmer to build, integrate, and enhance tools, workflows, and systems.
- Support application deployments, API integrations, scripting, and process automation.
- Translate operational or business needs into scalable technical implementations through planning, consulting, and architecture discussions.
- Apply consistent deployment methodologies and produce high-level infrastructure documentation for leadership review.
- Support cybersecurity initiatives including anti-phishing campaigns, system hardening, and periodic security reviews.
- Assist with identity management, endpoint security, access control, and logging oversight.
- Ensure all systems and practices comply with HIPAA and other relevant regulatory requirements.
- Collaboration, Support & Technical Leadership
- Serve as a high-level escalation resource for complex infrastructure or enterprise incidents.
- Collaborate with the Facilities/IT Manager on road mapping, standards development, and long-term technology strategy.
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to help desk staff and field technicians.
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date system documentation, network diagrams, and SOP's.
- Must be able to travel to our 40 locations in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware**
- Must be willing to participate in occasional on-call, nights, or weekend maintenance windows (emergencies, migrations, and repairs.**
What we look for:
- 3 years of experience in system administration or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong background in virtualization platforms, Linux server administration, and command-line proficiency.
- Experience maintaining server and network hardware in enterprise environments (Datacenter, NOC, or similar).
- Experience deploying or managing systems across multi-site organizations.
- Strong documentation skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a rapidly scaling environment.
- Willingness to participate in occasional on-call, nights, or weekend maintenance windows (emergencies, migrations, repairs).
- Working knowledge of Dell server BIOS/Lifecycle tools, RAID configuration, port forwarding, and IP tables.
- Strong sense of ownership, initiative, and follow-through.
- Collaborative, respectful, and able to work effectively across departments.
- Ability to design scalable, repeatable systems with long-term organizational growth in mind.
- Clear, confident communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Commitment to supporting reliable IT operations that directly impact patient experience and care quality.
- Healthcare IT experience.
- Familiarity with Linux-based server OSs, Identity & Access Management solutions, UCS, Proxmox VE, and Proxmox Backup OS.
- Experience with ZFS file systems and RAID.
- Cloud knowledge (Azure, AWS, M365).
- Experience with Unifi network platforms and enterprise router infrastructure (USG Pro, UXG, Cloud Key).
- Strong networking background (switching, VLANs, firewalls, SD-WAN, IDS/IPS, forwarding rules, proxies).
- Relevant certifications: VMware VCP, CompTIA Network /Security , Microsoft certs, etc.