System Administrator III

Location: Long Beach
Posted on: November 2, 2024

Job Description:

A. Primary experience/Professional certification (one of the following)

a. Cisco CCDP

b. Cisco CCNP Routing and Switching

c. Cisco CCNP Data Center

-CCIE overqualified-

B. Secondary experience/Noteworthy experience in: networking and storage SHARP

a. Required: Datacenters

i. Cabling

ii. Monitoring

iii. Infrastructure equipment installation

b. Required: Enterprise incident response/ticketing

c. Required: Project Management or Subject Matter Expertise in

i. Converged Infrastructures

ii. Mentoring

iii. Documentation (Wiki/Sharepoint)

d. Desired: Linux

i. LPI1

ii. LPI2

iii. RHCE

C. Tertiary experience/Solutions Expert Windows Systems Administrator (Windows 2008/2012) certification (more than one of the following)

a. MCSA Windows Server 2008

b. MCSA Windows Server 2012

c. MCSE Server Infrastructure

d. MCSE Desktop Infrastructure

Summary: Responsible for planning, coordinating and managing the computer system infrastructure. Installs software and hardware, manages team members, and maintains various systems and security. Leads a team of systems administrators as well as other members of the IT (information technology) staff. Provides strategic oversight for deployment and utilization of servers and various systems. Researches and specifies new hardware requirements or upgrades for the company's computer system and deals with any of the problems associated with the new hardware. Essential Functions: o Mentors, trains, and supervises other team members. o Designs and implements special projects and/or equipment (entire research systems: computers, instruments, data acquisition, communication, and security). o Develops, defines, and delivers project timelines and milestones in a timely manner. o Develops and maintains disaster recovery plans for key critical systems and servers. o Installs, configures, maintains, repairs specialized systems/applications and provides system support in a networked environment. o Interacts with other departments/units on a troubleshooting and knowledge sharing basis. o Researches, specifies, and recommends specific hardware and software for the department/unit. o Performs ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configures CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required. o Performs periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning. o Maintains data center environmental and monitoring equipment. o Maintains inventory information of servers and other data center equipment. o Maintains inventory of software licenses and manages annual renewal of maintenance contracts. o Participates and executes rollouts/deployments, migrations and upgrades as part of the IT team. o Reviews, escalates, resolves, and closes various tickets in the Altiris Help Desk queue. o May be required to work flexible hours, carry a duty pager, rotate through ON-CALL shift, and respond to network or system outages in a timely manner. ? State Plan / Department Specific Duties and Responsibilities o May perform Disaster Recovery planning and infrastructure build out and maintenance. o May provide Microsoft security patch deployment and process engineering. o May automate system administration tasks such as server inventory control, file system maintenance, and server service control using script technologies. Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: o Knowledge of MS Project and possess strong project management skills o Ability to install and configure various operating systems, databases, and applications to include principally MS Windows, Sun Solaris, VMware, MS SQL, Oracle, and supporting utilities o Knowledge of TCP/IP, Cisco Switches and Routers, and Checkpoint firewalls o Knowledge of Storage Area Networks and large disk arrays o Strong understanding of network protocols such as DNS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, SSL, LDAP, and Kerberos o Expertise with command line scripting (VBScript, Powershell, JavaScript, Shell, or PERL) o Working kn We are an equal employment opportunity employer and will consider all qualified candidates without regard to disability or protected veteran status.

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