System Administrator

Fantastic opportunity for an experienced System Administrator for our client firm in their Sarasota, FL office. What You'll Do: Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems. Introducing and integrating new technologies into the existing environment. Performing routine audits of systems and software. Performing backups and testing recovery. Applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes to servers. Installing and configuring new server hardware and software. Administration and routine maintenance for critical core services such as MS SQL server, Exchange, Domain Servers. Adding, removing, or updating user account information and group memberships, resetting passwords, etc. Answering technical queries by users. Responsibility for security of network and server systems. Responsibility for documenting the configuration of the network systems and servers. Perform maintenance and updates to VMWare server infrastructure. Troubleshooting any reported problems with servers/network. System performance tuning. Ensuring that the network infrastructure is up and running. Administration of email services in Office 365/Azure. What You'll Bring: BA/BS in CS, EE, CIS, MIS or Mathematics from a 4-year university or equivalent experience 6 years of Windows system administration supporting a production environment Well-developed and demonstrable understanding of Computer Science principles, basic networking concepts; OSI network layers, TCP/IP, routers, switches, systems, and servers such as DHCP, DNS and understanding of system and network security Well versed in Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 administration tasks, such as installation, configuration, management, lock down, security, patching and updating Experience with Active Directory (Domain trust, site and services, group policy), IIS, SQL Clustering, PowerShell, System Center Configuration Manager, and Intune. Knowledge and experience with traditional and hyperconverged infrastructure, RAID, NTFS, DFS, and Share Permissions Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis in a complex and distributed environment 6 years of virtualization experience - VMWare preferred (ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Log Insight, vROPs). Familiar with Nessus, Carbon Black, Thycotic and security concepts such as OWASP and Mitre ATT&CK. SharePoint Online setup and configuration experience 3 years Experience with Azure (M365, Exchange Online Azure AD, SAML, SSO, SharePoint, Teams, Power BI) and AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, Security Groups, IAM) cloud services. Experience with PowerShell scripting for maintenance and automation. Knowledge and experience with SMTP Gateways / Anti-Spam filters such as Mimecast, or similar.