What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Systems Administrator position at Galactic Network Integrators, INC?
Sr. Systems Administrator
GNI is looking for an experienced system administrator with a background in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting cross-domain systems. The successful candidate will work within a cross-functional team to provide hands-on experience designing, installing, configuring, monitoring and maintaining enterprise systems. The SA must have a team-oriented and customer-focused attitude due to multiple locations and various end users.
Primary responsibilities may include:
- Oversee the execution of security measures called out in the security plan to include timely scans of network resources and software patches.
- Provide effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of production Linux Servers in a VMWare Virtualized Environment.
- Responsible for daily system monitoring, security, server health, resources and log management of Linux and Windows systems.
- Troubleshooting and performing root cause analysis. This includes troubleshooting any and all issues with system configurations, backups, files systems, and user access.
- Support RHEL platforms hosting applications, operations and sustainment systems, and ACAS and other security tools
- Interface with network engineers, systems engineers, and subject matter experts in the performance of your duties
- Troubleshoot hardware, networking and software problems in multi-node environment
- Configure and install operating system and application software on bare-metal computers, virtual machines or containers.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to provide support for off-hours issues
- Be available for occasional off-hours on-call support to troubleshoot issues impacting operations
- Create and maintain software documentation and updates
- Work with a highly technical team to perform evaluation tests
Required Experience
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or related field
- Minimum 10 years’ experience focused on Linux/UNIX system administration
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage daily activities and priorities for personnel
- Direct experience with network topology, data flows, firewalls, routers and switches
Desired Experience
- Working knowledge of virtualization, VMWare, AWS Cloud administration, remote desktop, remote computer management or equivalent
- Familiarity with Palo Alto firewalls, Cisco routers and switches, WireShark, and CommVault
- Ability to problem solve and think critically sometimes independent of significant experience or documentation of the problem area
- Strong customer communication skills
- Project management skills
