What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Systems Administrator position at TransCore?
TransCore (TRN), a subsidiary of ST Engineering, is seeking a full-time Sr Systems Administrator to join our team in Houston, Texas.
Job Description: The Sr Systems Administrator position provides day-to-day technical support for existing customer installations as well as new deployments of proprietary multi-server tolling applications. Responsible for working both independently and in coordination with the help desk to resolve issues in a timely manner. Communicates highly technical information to both technical and nontechnical personnel.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Responds to requests via the helpdesk in the most expedient manner possible.
- Provides troubleshooting and repair for moderate network solutions.
- Quickly identifies and repairs common problems
- Evaluates interface between users, hardware and software, and operational and performance requirements of overall desktop system.
- Maintains servers, user accounts.
- Daily system maintenance review, such as systems log, antivirus server logs, etc.
- Provides monitoring and reports of the operational status of LAN/WAN environment as needed.
- Interacts with vendors.
- Installs and configures Server hardware.
- Recommends the acquisition or new hardware and/or software as needed.
Education: Associates degree from a two-year college or technical school or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10 years of Systems Administrator experience
- Expert implementing Hyper-V Virtual machines on a failover cluster
- Advanced Administration and setup of Dell Storage
- Must be able to work well in a stressful situation such as an entire system malfunction.
- Experience implementing and administrating failover clusters
- Knowledge of Networking (understanding LAN/WAN, Cisco products)
- Experience troubleshooting Windows Server (2008 or higher)
- File Transfer Protocol server experience
- VPN knowledge
- Microsoft SQL database understanding
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desired Skills:
- HP/Dell server experience
- Extensive working knowledge of Windows operating systems
- Experience troubleshooting Active Directory
- WSUS Experience
- SolarWinds Experience
- System Center experience
- CrowdStrike implementation
