Systems Administrator – Microsoft

About This Role

The Systems Administrator will play a key role in assisting the OIT in the oversight, management, troubleshooting, and execution of cloud services and platforms to support of infrastructure, applications, data, and other business needs.

Responsibilities

• Support and expand infrastructure
• Coordinate server configuration and administration with multiple parties (SDC, and contractors)
• Make recommendations for future server and software upgrades
• Monitor systems and applications to ensure security, availability, and performance
• Establish systems by evaluating network performance issues including availability, utilization, throughput, goodput, and latency; planning and executing the selection, installation, configuration, and testing of equipment; defining network policies and procedures; establishing connections and firewalls
• Maintains network and systems performance by performing systems monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting systems and application problems; escalating problems to vendor
• Build and manage relationships in a matrixed environment
• Find opportunities to refactor solutions to obtain better performance, cost, and efficiency
• Create and manage Azure DevOps projects, git repositories, and pipelines
• Oversee and configure Azure DevOps organizational settings
• Recommend and assist with the building and hosting of complex application solutions
• Understand, deploy, and manage Microsoft Azure and/or other cloud services
• Understand, deploy, and manage Microsoft Power Platform
• Understand and manage Microsoft 365 services
• Supports other IT staff, including developers

Requirements

• 5-8 years of professional experience in information systems engineering or another related field
• 2-3 years experience with Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, and 2022
• 2-3 years IIS Administration
• 2-3 years of network communications, including TCP/IP and DNS Samba/CIFS file sharing and NTFS permissions
• 3-5 years of IT work experience in infrastructure/network environments in systems operations, support, maintenance, and administration

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or technical institute degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience.
• 5-8 years of professional experience in information systems engineering or another related field is required.

Nice to Have

• 2-3 years of strong professional experience in Microsoft Azure cloud systems
• 2-3 years of experience with other cloud providers, such as AWS or GCP
• 2-3 years of professional experience in the administration of Microsoft software
• 3-5 years of professional experience supporting middleware such as API Management, IT Service Automation tools, and batch job services

Skills

* Required skills