What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Systems Administrator position at Cooperative Farmers Elevator?
Description
Position Summary
As an IT Systems Administrator at CFE you will be responsible for ensuring the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the operations of information systems. You will participate, contribute and execute the planning, implementation, and support of a variety of complex application and infrastructure related projects and upgrades. You will work closely with the IT Leadership, business leaders and employees to ensure alignment with the company’s overall objectives, mission, and vision.
Requirements
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed in basic qualifications are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 90 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Position Summary
As an IT Systems Administrator at CFE you will be responsible for ensuring the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the operations of information systems. You will participate, contribute and execute the planning, implementation, and support of a variety of complex application and infrastructure related projects and upgrades. You will work closely with the IT Leadership, business leaders and employees to ensure alignment with the company’s overall objectives, mission, and vision.
Requirements
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage, configure, and monitor Azure cloud infrastructure, on premise Microsoft Windows servers and related systems, Exchange mail configuration and Advisor recommendations
- Be proficient in administering and best practice security such as MFA, DLP, SSO, Endpoint protection, patching, and Monitoring/Logging
- Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, new hardware, storage, application software, system management tools
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability according to SLA’s
- Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions
- Implement and maintain security systems and redundant backup to maintain data safety
- Ability to automate tasks with PowerShell
- Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, mapping, processes, and service records
- Provide 2nd and 3rd level infrastructure support
- Own user account and security administration
- Demonstrate expertise in data file management, storage, & security
- Office 365 administration, configuration and management
- Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand
- Be effective in researching technology and tasks aligned to responsibilities, growing your skills and ability to drive CFE best practices
- Be an awesome ambassador for IT Service to CFE employees and customers providing great communication, empathy, and business inquisitiveness for strong partnership
- Be highly engaged, contributing and enriching an environment that marries productivity with positivity
- Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change
- Perform other duties as assigned by management
- Favorable feedback is received from all department managers when assigned to perform or assist with other duties and responsibilities in those departments.
- Attitude consistently mirrors the company image and promotes fellow employee teamwork.
- Present a professional image through words, actions, and personal appearance.
- Uphold all cooperative policies
- Employee Right to Know meetings, etc. held as required or scheduled in conjunction with the Safety Director.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or Management Information Systems strongly preferred. Five plus years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Broad understanding of business (Agriculture industry preferred) and IT functions and processes including change and break/fix management
- Strong analytical, problem solving, and organization skills required
- Experience with infrastructure & security best practices
- Proven working experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Windows based environments, virtual machines, monitoring/diagnosing systems
- Server and infrastructure security best practices
- Excellent verbal communication, advanced analytical skills, and strong sense of ownership
- Active Directory, Group Policy, Power Shell
- VPN, RDP, DNS, DHCP, ADFS, Radius
- SaaS Architecture, Microsoft Azure
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed in basic qualifications are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 90 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
