System Administrator

System Administrator

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Systems Administrators are tasked with creating, following, maintaining, and enforcing IT policies and procedures. They make decisions that involve analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of available data in non-routine situations. An essential part of the System Administrators' role is growing and maintaining their skills to keep pace with changes in the industry.

The position also supports critical infrastructure components such as Active Directory, E-Mail, Fax, backups, and supporting end users and Developers. Essential Job Functions:

• Network infrastructure and server design, implementation, and administration
  • Performs hardware maintenance and upgrades
  • Applies software patches and security updates
  • Maintains server infrastructure including Rack server, blade server and virtual server environments.
• Work with the user community to provide technical solutions to business problems
  • Serves as a liaison between internal departments, external vendors, and senior staff
  • Effectively communicates project information to personnel having limited technical backgrounds
  • Conducts meetings with end-users to gather functional requirements and creates software requirements speciation documents following ISO Standards
• Provide support to end-users via Help Desk support

o Perform desktop support on a request basis, documenting case history using ticketing systems

• Analyze and identify problems and provide solutions.
  • Develops and maintains a change control process to manage project scope and complexity and to facilitate prioritization of development activities
  • Coordinates unit and integration testing as well as user acceptance testing
  • Tracks and reports projects progress by establishing well-defined milestones, reviewing estimates, and providing status reports to senior staff
• Communications systems implementation and administration
  • Works closely with technical lead to develop software that will help meet the functional requirements as well as usability standards
  • Reviews technical specifications for accuracy and completeness

• Provide R&D relative to emerging technologies
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Lends expertise to other job areas as required.

Qualifications and Minimum Experience
3+ years of related experience
Skills:

• This position requires advanced networking and security analysis skills.
• This position requires experience with Cisco routing, switching, and security products.
• This position requires advanced experience with Microsoft Windows and Linux servers.
• This position requires excellent communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• This position requires experience with virtualization infrastructure on either Hyper-V or VMWare
• This position requires fundamental knowledge on SAN and NAS storages