What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Administrator position at DanSources?
REMOTE (DC area preferred, as they would like the candidate to come in for a quarterly meeting).
Primary Responsibilities
- Administration & Governance
- System administration tasks for both Linux and Windows server based systems including provisioning, deprovisioning, configuration, troubleshooting, and executing platform upgrades.
- Plan, coordinate, and execute successful patching of operating systems and installed applications.
- Monitor and optimize cloud storage costs and efficiency, employing FinOps strategies to ensure cost-effective resource utilization.
- Develop, deploy, and manage scalable and secure data pipelines according to Zero Trust principles
- Development & Engineering
- Implement automation using Powershell , YAML, JSON, Bash, or other tools to streamline operational processes.
- Develop, implement, and improve upon Python based scripts to support day to day infrastructure and continuous monitoring applications
- Identity Governance
- Perform user account onboarding / offboarding and managing proper role-based access controls in both Active Directory and in the cloud.
- Continuous Monitoring
- Ensure collective awareness and accurate and timely response to performance related issues through the development, implementation, and use of performance monitoring dashboards and alerts.
- Ensure integrity of data streams, ingestion, and transformations of data into Azure Sentinel.
- Develop and implement automated playbooks to detected incidents.
- Perform regular analysis, tracking, and reporting on the system environment including :
- Capacity analysis and right-sizing of virtual machines
- Inventory checks
- Compliance to security standards and benchmarks
- Cloud environment costs, trends, and anomalies
- User account access reviews
- Incidents that impact system availability
- Collaborate with other teams to implement appropriate cloud solutions and maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation of the cloud infrastructure including diagrams, configuration details, and operational procedures.
- Continually identify, leverage, and implement best practices for cloud environments and virtual machines.
Basic Qualifications
