Systems Administrator II - General - Window

Benefits and perks available for eligible positions include: robust educational assistance programs, generous paid time off, employee assistance and wellness programs, paid parental leave, qualifying employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program, plus more.

A team of morethan
600 professionals,
Health System Information Services (HSIS)works to keep UAB Medicine’s IT systems and infrastructure running smoothly to deliver quality and innovative care to our patients. Join our nationally ranked team at UAB Medicine,amongstthetop 150 Places to Workin 2025as ranked by Becker’s Healthcare.

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The Server Administrator's role is to ensure the stability, performance and integrity of all Health System server systems. This includes hosts, virtual machines, physical servers, data storage systems, presentation services, authentication and authorization systems, data and server backup systems and system services. In addition, the Systems Administrator will participate in the installation, monitoring, maintenance and support of all server hardware, software, and networks.

The person will also diagnose, resolve, and document hardware and software server problems in a timely and accurate fashion and provide team and end user training where required. The System Administrator ensures the availability of client/server applications, ensures high-performance levels of the various business and clinical applications, configures new implementations and develops processes and procedures for ongoing management and monitoring of enterprise server and storage environments.

Handles client access issues and assists in overseeing the physical, integrity, and safety of the server and storage stacks/farms.

• Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure
• Ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational standards
• Investigate and troubleshooting issues. Repair and recover from hardware or software failures
• Coordinate and communicate with impacted business units
• Manage workflow using an enterprise ticketing system
• Windows Server Build and Administration
• Participate in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure
• Ability to take project requirements and turn them into an executable plan
• Respond to emergency server outages in accordance with business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to server configuration, server relationships, and service records.
• Adhere to policies, procedures, and associated training plans for server administration, usage, and disaster recovery.
• Maintain company servers, hosts, Active Directory, file servers and other server related hardware.
• Utilize trouble ticketing and tracking system to coordinate work and document work tasks.
• Conduct research on server products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the server industry.
• Oversee new and existing equipment, hardware, and software upgrades.
• Configure servers to ensure their smooth and reliable operation for fulfilling business objectives and processes.
• Monitor server performance and troubleshoot problem areas as needed.
• Receive and respond to incoming calls, automated alerts, notifications, and/or e-mails/ticketing system regarding server problems.
• Ensure server authentication with directory services.
• Practice server asset management, including maintenance of server component…