Senior Systems Administrator

Position Description

• The client is seeking an experienced Senior Systems Administrator within its Technology Services Division.
  
  

The Position Duties Include

• Working closely with other IT teams including Information Security, Service Desk, Quality Assurance, Production Support and product vendors to plan, deploy and sustain a stable, highly performing and available infrastructure and application environment.
• Ownership/oversight and hands-on planning, deployment and operational upkeep of ASRS’ infrastructure and applications.
• Proactive monitoring, identification and resolution of the most complex infrastructure and application problems.
• Promoting and advancing team efficiencies and capabilities through DevOps/automation improvements.
• Additionally, and as needed:
• Maintain timely, accurate and complete documentation and desk procedures for systems and team functions.
• Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Administration and management of:
• Multi-tiered COTS applications
• Public-cloud services
• Physical and virtual servers
• Mid-tier storage arrays and SAN
• Security appliances
• Active directory and group policy
• Secure remote access, remote desktop/VDI
• Adherence to Incident, Problem, Configuration and Change Management processes and controls.
• Perform IT Service Management functions including creating tickets, communicating directly with users/IT staff, fielding incident escalations, performing troubleshooting operations and thoroughly documenting progress/status.
• ASRS’ intent is to transition this temp position to full-time employee after a period of 6-9 months. Long-term temporary status is not an option
  
  

Key Responsibilities And Qualifications

• Experience Required: One or more relevant industry-accepted certifications related to the following technologies: AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, VMWare, etc.
• Education Required: BS in Computer/Information Systems and/or five years of experience as a server/network administrator in a medium-large enterprise.
• Skills Required:
• Thorough understanding of multi-tiered application architecture.
• Technical knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server and client operating systems.
• Technical knowledge of Linux Server operating systems.
• Ability to automate operational tasks and routines using PowerShell and/or other automation platforms/methods.
• Proven customer service skills and ability to work professionally and effectively with all levels of staff.
• Proven organizational skills.
• Demonstrated problem-resolution skills and analytical/critical thinking abilities.
• Ability to work within established operational policies and guidelines.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to adapt to the changing needs of the agency.
• Experience working in a 24x7, mission-critical enterprise public cloud and on-premises data center environment.
• Skills Preferred:
• Experience using the Arizona Procurement Portal. Experience with contract setup and audit entries in DOORS or the LPA DBE System.
• The Arizona Procurement Portal (APP) would be the source of payment data that has to then be recorded in our spreadsheet AND in the ADOT DBE & OJT Online Reporting System (DOORS) system audits.
  
  

Additional Information

• Seeking an experienced Senior Systems Administrator within its Technology Services Division.
• FPCC 7-year BKG Check
• It's primarily remote, but they will need to come into the office as needed, as well as for the first three days of their employment.
  
  

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Skills: cisco,vmware,infrastructure,aws,microsoft,security,disaster recovery,virtualization,microsoft windows server,windows server,asrs,linux server operating systems,network security,powershell,performance tuning,automation,multi-tiered application architecture,devops,cloud computing,scripting languages,technical support