Server Administrator

Server Administrator PBF Energy Inc. (NYSE:PBF) is one of the largest independent refiners in North America, operating through its subsidiaries, oil refineries and related facilities. We are seeking a talented Server Administrator to join our team as a pivotal member that would play a key role here at PBF Energy. This role would be located onsite at our refinery location in Torrance, CA.

The Server and Storage Administrator is responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, monitoring, and support of enterprise server and storage infrastructure. This role ensures the availability, performance, security, and scalability of physical and virtual server environments, storage systems, backup solutions, and disaster recovery capabilities. The administrator works closely with IT operations, network, security, and application teams to support business-critical systems and services.

• Install, configure, maintain, and support Windows and Linux server environments.
• Manage physical and virtual server infrastructure, including VMware, Hyper-V.
• Perform server provisioning, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management.
• Monitor server performance, capacity, and availability.
• Troubleshoot hardware, operating system, and application-related issues.
• Implement and maintain high-availability and clustering solutions.
• Develop and maintain server standards, documentation, and operating procedures.
• Administer enterprise server hardware, including Dell, HPE, systems.
• Perform firmware, BIOS, and driver updates.
• Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and business continuity initiatives.
• Maintain server room and data center operational standards.
• Administer and engineer aspects of Hyper-V, Multi-vendor storage solutions, Veeam Backup and Replication and related technologies.
• Provision, configure, and optimize storage resources to meet business requirements.
• Monitor storage utilization, performance, and capacity planning.
• Configure and maintain storage replication, snapshots, and data protection solutions.
• Perform storage migrations and upgrades with minimal business disruption.
• Ensure storage systems meet organizational security and compliance requirements.
• Administer enterprise backup solutions such as Veeam, or similar technologies.
• Develop and test backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Conduct regular restoration testing to validate backup integrity.
• Support business continuity planning and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Implement security best practices for server and storage infrastructure.
• Manage system hardening, vulnerability remediation, and access controls.
• Support audits and compliance requirements, including regulatory and corporate standards.
• Ensure systems are patched and protected against emerging threats.
• Utilize Solar Winds monitoring tools to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Generate operational reports related to system health, performance, availability, and capacity.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis activities.
• Provide On-Call support as part of an after-hours rotation.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, procedures, architectures, and technology solutions.
• Provide a structured approach and identify strategies, initiatives, remedies and improvements to system, technical requirements, and operations so that the infrastructure is operating optimally.
• Troubleshoot server, operating system, hardware, and application-related issues.
• Manage storage and backup solutions to ensure data protection and recovery capabilities.
• Participate in infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and refresh projects.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and best practices.
• Coordinate with vendors and third-party support providers.
• Assist in capacity planning and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Design, implement and test complex system and technical solutions.
• Provide troubleshooting steps and operational documentation to Level 1/2 support team.
• Review current technologies, tools, and services and make recommendations for their use based on security/compliance, financial, and operational criteria.
• Understanding of Microsoft licensing SKUs/models and deployment best practices.
• Assist cyber security investigations and contribute to providing audit proof of operations.
• Detect and troubleshoot to solve technical problems.
• Provision and set up new infrastructure solutions, install and configure windows operating system and other operating systems (as needed) in on-prem locations.
• Assist in management…