Systems Administrator II – 6139

Your Roles and Responsibilities

• Work directly with global team to upgrade all versions of Windows servers and  Vmware hypervisors.
• Troubleshoot day-to-day physical and virtual system problems.
• Consolidate and upgrade equipment to reduce cost and complexity.
• Submit change management tickets and manage their lifecycle to completion for systems.
• Act to consolidate Active Director forests and domains to a single domain.
• Research, design, recommend and implement solutions for creating modern data centers that maximize energy efficiency, cost savings and global management.
• Assist in all office and data Center consolidation projects.
• Perform firmware upgrades to remediate bugs and security risks.
• Deploy, rack, cable patch, and decommission equipment.
• Initiate and communicate with Ion internal business line personnel to provide knowledge pertaining to the servers their team’s utilize.
• Work closely with the networking team to troubleshoot and provide remote hands to address physical networking concerns.
• Schedule and track hardware maintenance.
• Create operational procedures and processes as they pertain to the global data centers.
• Security awareness and remediation of vulnerability on applications and servers.
• Assist in upgrading aged hardware across multiple entities and locations.
• Remediate problematic machines that fail to patch or have security agent problems.
• Document both existing and proposed systems utilizing various Microsoft applications such as Visio, Word, etc.
• Pro-active monitoring and maintenance of hardware and software.

Required Skills, Experience, and Qualifications

• 3-5 years of work experience building and troubleshooting physical and virtual servers, hypervisor hosts, hardware platforms.  Some higher education preferred.
• Should have strong, hands-on technical knowledge of storage system logic and management.
• Must be a self-starter, able to work odd hours on occasion, be autonomous within a team structure.
• Applicant should be willing to work extra hours to get the job completed to ensure project deadlines are met.
• Knowledge of basic hardware configurations: memory, compute, storage, BIOS, networking.
• Hand-on experience with VMware, Hyper-V and if possible Ovirt.
• Experience with blade chassis and stand-alone servers.
• Be detail oriented as it relates to capturing IT information, updating tickets, and communicating risks.
• Should understand security protocols, procedures, and best practices.
• Must be able to quickly grasp high level concepts and be able to relate these with applicable business requirements.
• Must have hands-on experience with Windows-Active Directory and related server roles and configurations.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues during installation and upgrades.
• Proven experience with change control operations and procedures.
• Documentation and organization skills are critical.
• Ability to work independently.
• Azure and 365 experience is plus, but not necessary.
• Strong communication both verbal and written.