Systems Administrator/Engineer

Position Summary and Responsibilities:

This position is for a Systems Administrator/Engineer responsible for the life cycle management of infrastructure platforms including cloud and on-prem technologies with both virtual and physical servers, Microsoft SQL databases, ETL services, some middleware services, backup services, and monitoring services. The life cycle management includes deployment, support/maintenance, and decommission of technologies as they change.

The Full Stack Engineer must work as a member of a team and be willing to learn and teach technologies as part of a high performing team. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with an expert foundation in Microsoft operating systems and Microsoft SQL

Responsibilities:

• Deployment and day to day support of server and database services both on-prem and in the cloud.
• Manage infrastructure services including Active Directory, DNS, monitoring, and backup/restores.
• Manage cloud infrastructure including accounts/subscriptions, IAM, networks, load balancers.
• Responsible for on-prem technologies physical and virtual servers, SAN and load balancers
• Automation of infrastructure as code using git, CI/CD pipelines, Powershell, Ansible, Terraform.
• Expected to create and maintain and documentation.
• Will support acquisitions including configurations, monitoring and preventative maintenance
• Daily responsibilities include supporting application and operation teams with real-time production/test environments

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or commensurate experience
• 4+ years direct systems administration work experience preferred
• 4+ years database administration work experience preferred.
• 3+ years with cloud environments Azure/AWS/GCP
• DevOps mindset and tools like Git, GoCD/Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform.
• Effective written and oral communication skills; ability to utilize interpersonal skills to work with team members and business units within the company.
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly terminology.
• Avamar/HYCU (Backup/Restore) expertise a plus
• Disaster Recovery Planning/Documenting/Implementing
• Extensive experience required working with VMware virtual environments utilizing vSphere, Operations Manager, and vMotion
• Proficient in Nutanix administration

Must be able to work on call as needed to support business needs