Administrator- Systems II

Job Description

First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset.

• Work independently and with team members to perform senior level functions with multiple technologies. Administers and maintains hardware and applications such as Linux OS, Windows OS, VMware Horizon, VDI, Intune, and any other as assigned.

• Work independently and with team members to perform senior level functions with multiple technologies. Administers and maintains hardware and applications such as Linux OS, Windows OS, VMware Horizon, VDI, Intune, and any other as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field or equivalent years of work experience.
• Minimum 4 years of work experience as a System Administrator.
• 3+ years of experience supporting Microsoft and VMware environments.
• Senior level knowledge of server and client hardware (Dell, Cisco, Zebra, and others a plus). Experience should include monitoring, installation, configuration, tuning and management.
• Experience supporting and managing M365.
• Experience managing a VDI environment, either corporate or manufacturing.
• 3+ years of experience with Server and Storage tools.
• 3+ years of experience with Linux OS support;
  CentOS, Ubuntu, RHEL.
• 3+ years of experience with a 24/7 IT infrastructure Environment desired.
• 1+ years of experience with Microsoft Intune desired.
• Experience with Kubernetes operations and automation.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with creating Helm (package manager) charts and yaml files.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Helm, Git Ops workflows, and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and cloud platforms (Azure).
• Scripting skills in Ansible, Bash, Python, or Power Shell.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
• Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security in cloud-native environments.
• Knowledge of industry standard Linux MDM support and management.
• Microsoft Azure Certified a plus.
• Experience automating Linux OS deployments and software delivery.
• Experience building OS and software patching reports for Linux OS.
• Experience with managing and supporting VMWare updates including vcenter and horizon.
• Experience managing RHEL in MS Azure Cloud.
• Backup solutions knowledge a plus.
• Experience in supporting and managing MoveIT.
• Senior level knowledge of manufacturing backup concepts and tools like Acronis.
• Advanced knowledge of storage tuning, gathering data and presenting storage statistics to support required/requested storage-based performance initiatives.
• Senior expertise Knowledge of patch management practices for a Microsoft Windows environment.
• Expertise knowledge of patch management practices for Linux environments.
• Knowledge of Windows Server patch management practices.
• Familiarity with ITIL is a plus.
• Exposure to SOX controls, processes, etc.
• 2+ years of experience in Orchestrator, general automation for Linux.
• Working knowledge and/or prior experience in Cloud offerings (SaS, IaaS, PasS) a plus.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Job description subject to change at any time.

• Work with inter/intra team members around the globe to research, plan, implement and support IT flexible, high availability solutions.
• Work with enterprise infrastructure including but not limited to, Rancher, VMware, Horizon, MS Active Directory, MS Active Directory Group Policies / configuration items.
• Utilize project management skills and manage day-to-day priorities.
• Support network and internet protocols and applications including but not limited to WINS, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, IIS, SNMP, SMTP, Interface Redundancy, SSL.
• Evaluate, diagnose, and troubleshoot complex hardware/software issues.
• Create, modify, and keep documentation related to endpoint architecture.
• Adheres to all safety procedures and good housekeeping standards.
• Must be able to perform on-call tasks on a periodic basis.
• Linux support
  • Documentation creation.
  • Troubleshooting all Linux issues.
  • Training new server admin hires on Linux support.
  • Respond to all CVE alerts in a…