System Administrator

Title: System Administrator 2(With Power Shell and Intune/Microsoft Configuration Manager Expertise)

Location: Vancouver, WA (Hybrid)

Duration: 12-month Contract (with possible extensions up to 5 years)

Pay Range: $49.57 – $52.80 per hour

The role of the System Administrator is to provide operating system support in order to provide sustainable, stable and secure enterprise level servers including backup recovery, performance tuning, upgrades/patches, maintenance, troubleshooting, permissions and file sharing.

The System Administrator installs, configures, and supports management approved local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and Internet systems or a segment of a network system. This role monitors the network to verify network availability to all system users and may perform necessary maintenance to support network availability.

• Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
• Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary.
• Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures to protect data, software, and hardware.
• Configure, monitor, and maintain email applications or virus protection software.
• Operate master consoles to monitor the performance of computer systems and networks, and to coordinate computer network access and use.
• Load computer tapes and disks, and install software and printer paper or forms.
• Design, configure, and test computer hardware, networking software and operating system software.
• Monitor network performance to determine whether adjustments need to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future.
• Confer with network users about how to solve existing system problems.
• Monitor and test Web site performance to verify Web sites operate correctly and without interruption.
• May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software.
• Administer network security measures.
• Implement and integrate new system architecture into an existing environment.
• Deploy highly available technologies such as replication, load balancing, geographic clustering.
• Install and configure server hardware including operating system and additional software to configure for optimal use.
• Identify standard monitoring requirements and scripting or applying additional setting requirements.
• Troubleshoot hardware and system level problems.
• Interpret architecture and design configurations from vendors or other teams to enable clear implementation standards and guidelines.
• Document implementation guidelines and installation guidance.

• Education & Corresponding Experience
  • With an Associate's or Bachelor's Degree in applicable fields, 3 years of experience is required.
  • With an Associate's or Bachelor's Degree not in applicable fields or without a degree, 5 years of experience is required.
  • Applicable Certifications may count for 1 year of experience.
• Experience must include direct work experience in Information Technology performing System Administration.

• 1 year of experience with Powershell (or equivalent scripting tool).
• 1 year of experience packaging desktop software applications for delivery using a centralized software distribution system (Microsoft Configuration Manager or Microsoft Intune).
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access) and other office automation/production software (eg. Adobe Acrobat).

• 1+ year of experience packaging and delivering applications via Microsoft App-V or MSIX App Attach
• Preparing desktop software applications for delivery via Citrix Xen App and Xen Desktop.
• Resolving application packaging and delivery issues.
• Conducting thorough Quality Assurance (QA) testing.
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills with commercial and in-house developed software applications.
• Experience in troubleshooting Microsoft Windows 11 in an enterprise environment.

Everest Consultants offers the following benefits for this position: medical, dental, & vision insurance, short-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, and a referral bonus program, paid sick/vacation/holidays, and a health and welfare fringe benefit.

Everest Consultants is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state, or federal civil rights laws.