Senior Systems Administrator

About the job Senior Systems Administrator

We have partnered with a large non-profit organization in the New York, NY area to provide them with a Senior Systems Administrator. Please review the below description and let us know if you are interested.

Must Have Skills for the Senior Systems Administrator:

#1. 8+ years hands‑on experience deploying, administering, and upgrading Windows and Linux servers in a large IT environment (> 200 servers)

#2. 8+ years hands‑on experience and maintaining enterprise IT infrastructure.

#3. 8+ years hands‑on experience deploying, administering, and upgrading Windows 20XX operating systems.

#4. 8+ years hands‑on experience deploying, administering, and upgrading Microsoft Active Directory.

Responsibilities of the Senior Systems Administrator:

• Configure, maintain, monitor, upgrade, and support the VMWare private cloud infrastructure environments
• Configure, maintain, monitor, upgrade, and support Linux and Windows virtual servers including expertise in Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Replication, SMB, DFSR, etc.
• Maintain, monitor, upgrade, and support the Institutes network and cyber‑security infrastructure
• Manage the Institutes Disaster Recovery plan by ensuring RPO and RTO are achieved and tape backups are performed on scheduled basis
• Monitor database performance and recommend changes
• Monitor and administer storage devices
• Support enterprise‑wide work initiatives and projects
• Recommend improvements that increase system security, reliability, and performance
• Provide Infrastructure Support for multiple developed systems and applications of medium to high complexity ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility.
• Provide Support for enterprise applications such as Alfresco, Confluence, SharePoint, and custom developed web applications
• Provide support for business‑critical applications
• Responsible for deploying and managing security SSL Certificates, MFA Infrastructure, and 802.1X
• Support and comply with the Institutes Information Security Management System (ISO/IEC 27001:2013)
• Manage security awareness program
• Participate in IT audits and cybersecurity assessments at regular intervals.
• Maintain, manage and support cyber‑security devices, applications, and appliances.
• Primary point of contact with the Institutes Security Operations Center (SOC) and manage the relationship.
• Ensure delivery of clear and concise performance and up time repots to management on a daily basis.
• Keep current on the cybersecurity, regulatory, and threat landscapes
• Perform upgrades, patches and updates to production applications and servers
• Provide technical assistance to members of the IT Department
• Prepare project plans, implementation scheduling, and coordinate new site installations
• Document system and network infrastructure and application processes and configurations

Information Security Responsibilities:

• Attend/complete assigned information security training by the designated completion date
• Read and adhere to published ISMS policies and procedures
• Report timely any observed violations of ISMS policy - or known encroachments on information security - to your department leader and/or the Information Technology Department

Requirements of the Senior Systems Administrator:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering plus eight years experience
• VMWare, Microsoft Windows, and Cisco Systems certifications desired
• 8+ years hands‑on experience deploying, administering, and upgrading Windows and Linux servers in a large IT environment (> 200 servers)
• 7+ years hands‑on experience and maintaining enterprise IT infrastructure
• 8+ years hands‑on experience deploying, administering, and upgrading Windows 20XX operating systems
• 8+ years hands‑on experience deploying, administering, and upgrading Microsoft Active Directory
• 8+ years hands‑on experience deploying, administering, and upgrading a VMWare ESXi environments and VMWare vSphere
• 5+ years hands‑on experience deploying, administering, and upgrading a VMWare Horizon View cloud desktop environment
• 3+ years hands‑on experience maintaining VMWare Horizon View cloud desktop environment
• 2+ years hands‑on experience administering public cloud environments

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