Senior System Administrator

Mavis Tire - Senior Systems Administrator

Mavis Tire is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Senior Systems Administrator to join our headquarters in White Plains, NY. As an integral member of our expanding IT team, you will be at the forefront of maintaining and enhancing our systems infrastructure that supports our operations across the nation. We offer a vibrant and collaborative work environment that encourages continuous learning and professional advancement.

Job Description:

As a Senior Systems Administrator at Mavis Tire, you will be pivotal in ensuring the dependability, security, and performance of our IT systems infrastructure. Your role will encompass deploying new applications, participation in engineering infrastructure solutions, OS deployments and upgrades, service desk escalations, and Azure cloud support. Your meticulousness and technical know-how will be key in making sure our systems are contemporary and function seamlessly.

Responsibilities:

• Install new and rebuild existing servers.
• Participate in the design, implementation and management of systems automation as required for better efficiency
• Collaborate with peers to develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures; contribute to and maintain system standards
• Perform daily system and security monitoring, verify the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verify completion of scheduled jobs
• Provide support to operational and development teams as needed.
• Enhance our patching, and package deployment automation
• Play a key role in automating our store technology deployments
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required
• Adhere to firm Change Management, Problem Management policies
• Collaborate with engineering peers and security teams to develop and deploy system monitoring, change control and infrastructure policies to meet business requirements.
• Assist with expanding our Azure Cloud presence

Skills:

• 4 Years' experience in IT
• Knowledge of identity and access management
• Knowledge of scripting languages - Powershell, Python, VBscript
• Hands on deployment and maintenance experience of Microsoft server technologies - Failover Cluster, Hyper-V
• Advanced hands-on experience with Microsoft Active Directory including GPO, DNS, DHCP
• Knowledge of email best practices and administration.
• Hands on knowledge of Veeam backup and recovery.
• Experience with Packaging applications.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Demonstrable experience as a Senior Systems Administrator or a similar role.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment
• Familiarity with system security norms and best practices.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills combined with strong communication abilities.

Employee Benefits

At Mavis, we understand that our people drive our success. We provide our team members with competitive weekly pay, including weekly incentive compensation, a good working environment and an excellent combination of additional benefits like health, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, paid vacations, paid time off, paid holidays, life insurance, on-the-job training, and opportunities for career growth and advancement.

Mavis is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Consistent with our commitment to the principal of equal employment opportunity for all individuals, we enforce a zero tolerance policy on discrimination at Mavis. Employment decisions are made without regard to an applicant's or employee's actual or perceived membership in any category or status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. Where appropriate, Mavis may provide reasonable accommodation, in order for an otherwise qualified individual to perform the essential functions of the position.

Mavis does not seek salary history information from applicants.