Systems Administrator

Job Summary

IPG Photonics is seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to join our expanding IT team and work in a growing, dynamic, high‑tech manufacturing company. As a System Administrator, you will help develop, maintain, and secure our global infrastructure. The ideal candidate is a flexible, driven, diligent worker that can analyze the environment both as a whole and in detail to provide necessary business systems and services to the organization that meet business objectives and SLAs.

• Hands on administrating infrastructure services including but not limited to Microsoft Active Directory, Citrix Deployment & Management, Microsoft Exchange, Nutanix, VMware, Veeam Backup, Solar Winds, and MDM applications.
• Strong design, implementation, and management experience with Microsoft 365 Stack;
  Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, MS Teams, One Drive, Intune, and Azure AD.
• Knowledge and experience with deployment and management of identity and access management, Single Sign‑on and Microsoft MFA.
• Experience migrating M365 environment between different tenants and Gsuite to M365.
• Administer AWS, including license management, platform deployment and connectivity.
• Assists with maintaining and administration of Tenant's security and spam filter systems.
• Monitors and analyzes infrastructure systems and business applications for advanced notification of potential issues and identify and recommend proactive resolutions.
• Ensures infrastructure systems and applications are compliant to meet the highest levels of security and data integrity.
• Coordinate with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• Follow assigned project tasks and commit to timelines.
• Provide weekly status update on all assigned projects tasks.
• Recognize roadblocks and work to resolve them before they impact schedules.
• Create and maintain system configuration, and troubleshooting documentation as needed.
• Review all policies and procedures and ensure they are being adhered to. Proactively troubleshoot and test application performance for potential bottlenecks and identify areas for continual improvement.
• Provide 2nd & 3rd level IT support and participate in the scheduled on‑call rotation.
• Lead vulnerability mitigation and scheduled system patching cycles.
• Actively claim, triage, and resolve IT tickets and contribute to the team’s overall SLA matrixes.
• Configure, install, hardware upgrade and review infrastructure systems to ensure their smooth and reliable operation for fulfilling business objectives and processes.
• Participate in outage/incident bridge calls as needed.

• Hands‑on experience working with AWS, Microsoft Azure and M365 stack.
• Detailed knowledge of Office 365 services;
  SharePoint Online, One Drive, Teams, Power Platform, O365 Groups, and others as needed. Familiarity with M365 usage reports.
• Solid understanding of Active Directory, Group Policies, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Windows, and Linux operating systems, Veeam, Microsoft Exchange, Nutanix, VMWare and Monitoring Tools.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of ITIL best practices and experience with an ITSM tool.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Self‑motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
• Experience working in a team‑oriented, collaborative environment. Strong customer service orientation, ability to verbally communicate complex concepts and address sensitive situations, resolve conflicts, negotiate, motivate, and persuade others.
• Experience with SSO & Microsoft MFA.
• Experience with Power Shell scripting.
• Knowledge of networking configurations, installation, and maintenance.
• Merger and Acquisition experience.

• BS degree in…