Senior System Administrator

Overview

Are you a Senior Systems Administrator who would like to have a positive impact for millions of people? If so, we may have an opportunity for you!

TISTA associates enjoy above Industry Healthcare Benefits, Remote Working Options, Paid Time Off, Training/Certification opportunities, Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account, Paid Life Insurance, Short-term & Long-term Disability, 401K Match, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Holidays, Military Leave, and much more!

Responsibilities

• Support a NOC/Command Center on-site for 2nd or 3rd shift.
• Assists in the support of incident response and recovery activities for business or technology disruptions, including those caused by cyber-attacks, natural disaster, man-made disaster, and other crisis scenarios at all times as necessitated by the disruption.
• Support restoration services such as restarting servers, processes and or tools.
• Identify when an event qualifies as needing a disaster mitigation or a disaster recovery response.
• Maintain accurate documentation of system configurations, procedures, and policies.
• Willingness to train on DR processes​.
• Validate and test Infrastructure Operations (IO) Incident response.
• Assist with the orchestration of actions during DM/DR event and report as required​.

Qualifications

• Must be able to troubleshoot problems and issues identified by support tools and implement corrective actions quickly.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently with little supervision.
• Ability to multi-task and work cooperatively with other.
• Requires System Admin skills/background.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or related technical discipline and 5 years’ work experience
• Eight (8) years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education (13 years total)

Clearance: 

• The ability to pass a Tier 2/Moderate Background Investigation 

Location:

• Department of Veteran's Affairs (100% On-site)
• Saturday - Tuesday  (9:00 PM - 7:30 PM CST Time)
• Austin Information Technology Center (AITC)
• 1615 Woodward Street
• Austin, TX 78741