System Administrator

Seeking System Administrator experience in enterprise backup and recovery, MS Server and Linux system administration. Experience with Azure cloud computing.

Interview: Teams

Location: Columbus, OH

Posting: 709941

Work: ON-SITE

Role and Experience      

• Maintain essential IT infrastructure, including operating systems, security tools, applications, servers, software, and hardware
• Take responsibility for projects and solutions within the larger business initiative
• Enable faster and smarter business processes, and develop analytics for meaningful insights
• Work with internal partners to communicate project status, activities, and achievements
• Proven success in an IT system administration role
• Experience with or knowledge of programming languages and operating systems, current equipment and technologies, enterprise backup and recovery procedures, systems performance-monitoring tools, active directories, virtualization, HTTP traffic, content delivery, and caching
• Working knowledge of MS Server and Linux
• Experience in project management, application design and integration
• Expertise in analyzing and repairing large-scale distributed systems; creating volumes and assigning them to servers; and remote replication
• Strong knowledge of implanting and developing IT operations best practices, including expert knowledge of security, storage, data protection, and disaster recovery protocols
• Strong knowledge of systems and networking software, hardware, and networking protocols
• Experience with PowerShell scripting and automation tools
• Working knowledge of virtualization, VMWare, or equivalent
• Effective written and verbal communications skills with all levels of internal and customers and staff.
• Effective critical thinking and troubleshooting skills
• Perform server administration tasks (ex: user/group, security permissions, group policies, print services, task automation); research event-log warnings and errors; and monitor resources to ensure that systems architecture components work together seamlessly
• Monitor system health using existing management tools, and respond to hardware issues as they arise; help build, test, and maintain new servers when needed
• Maintain internal infrastructure requirements, including laptop and desktop computers, servers, routers, printers, security updates; LANs, WANs, and network segments
• Assist the service desk and other teams with troubleshooting to identify root cause, and provide technical support when needed
• Perform routine and scheduled audits of all systems, including backups
• Responsible for the maintenance, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems, network servers, and virtualization
• Install and upgrade computer components and software, manage virtual servers, and integrate automation processes
• Troubleshoot hardware and software errors by running diagnostics, documenting problems and resolutions, prioritizing problems, and assessing impact of issues
• Provide documentation and technical specifications to IT staff for planning and implementing new or upgrades of IT infrastructure

Preffered

• Knowledge of Linux systems administration
• Professional certification
• Experience with Azure cloud computing