System Administrator (Coeur d'Alene)

POSITION SUMMARY

The System Administrator, under general supervision, will be responsible for enterprise server architecture, security, and day-to-day operations.

Specifically working with design, configuration, implementation, maintenance, security, and administration activities in an enterprise server infrastructure.

This includes Virtual, Physical and Hosted Server platforms, SANs, backups, and other related server equipment.

This position is routinely assigned deliverables on various technical projects and works independently as well as part of a team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:


* Design, install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, upgrade, and audit the server infrastructure.


* Monitor overall health of production, hosted and physical server environments.


* Maintain reliable, secure, and robust operation of server environment including installation and updates of operating systems and software releases, system upgrades and backups.


* Evaluate and install security releases, patches, and updates and resolve software related problems.


* Collaborate with IT Team to implement strong security configurations, remediate vulnerabilities, manage email filtering, and install updates.


* Handle administration of virtualized hosts and provisioning of virtual machines.


* Oversee backups of production systems and ensure restore processes are functional and secure.


* Create and keep up to date documentation on server infrastructure.


* Manage DNS for internal and external name resolution.


* Manage DHCP for multiple sites/VLANs.


* Monitor capacity and analyze information concerning processing time, response times, application/software, CPU loads, etc.


* Inform management of potential system concerns, makes recommendations, and provides capacity planning/metric reports.


* Oversee administration of systems to support digital signage and remote access applications.


* Ensure uptime of mission critical infrastructure components and adhere to strict SLAs.


* Maintain governmental compliance and participate in infrastructure audits as needed.


* Conduct technical evaluations on new products and provides recommendations.


* Create and maintain technical documentation on server processes and standards.


* Remain abreast of latest technologies and trends.


* Provide 24x7 on-call support as required.


* Follow operational procedures to appropriately analyze, escalate, and assist in remediation of critical information security incidents.


* Participate in the development of project proposals with emphasis on cost/benefits.


* Assist IT team with improvements to enhance functionality and service to users.


* Travel between sites to resolve issues, which may include  afterhours activities.


* Produce and review technical documentation, procedures, white and guides.


* Other duties as needed.

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