Senior Systems Administrator

Department:
Information Technology

Job Description:

JOB SUMMARY: The Senior Systems Administrator is the driver of our continued Backoffice innovation. With your commitment to continuous improvement, you seek, develop, and help implement strategic initiatives for improved efficiency and productivity through better systems and technology. We're currently searching for an experienced systems administrator to help take our organization to the future.

Please note this position is on-site.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Key Responsibilities

General:

• Provide proposals, updates, and seek direction on a regular basis.
• Work effectively with the vendors, end-users, and senior managers.
• Promote and maintain a team environment.
• Participate in projects related to responsibilities; may serve as a technical project lead on occasions.
• Recognize problems, develop recommendations and solutions, and oversee correction within assigned specialty.
• Selection, development, retention, interviews, appraisals, and identifying training needs for staff.
• Staying current on technology trends and communicating these trends with the appropriate staff.
• Liaise between end users and network administration staff to maximize network/systems utilization.
• Oversee the configuration and management of the IT infrastructure to support requirements in areas such as data retention, security, business continuity, disaster recovery planning/testing and information risk management.
• Analyze product life cycles to help develop the IT budget.

NETWORK ADMINISTRATION:

• Oversee the coordination with IT department regarding installations and configurations of LAN, WAN, VLAN's, SDWAN and related devices.
• Travel to jobsites and regional offices to configure, install, and maintain network equipment.
• Plan, coordinate, and manage the implementation of company-wide server short- and long-term strategy in areas such as capacity planning, upgrade paths and service levels.
• Coordinates the backup and disaster recovery plans with IT, external vendors, and other functional leads.
• Act as a liaison between vendors, technical support, and departments to resolve complex system and network problems. Coordinate and implement corrective measures

SERVER ADMINISTRATION:

• Oversee the user account management and development and deployment of patches within Windows environment as well as VMWare environment.
• Work with the team to transition to Microsoft Azure.
• Oversee installs, configuration, upgrades, administration, monitoring, maintenance, and security file and database servers. Ensure that server uptime is meeting business requirements.

SECURITY:

• Identify security risks and coordinate their remediation.
• Manage responses to security incidents.
• Work with various IT functional groups to ensure end-to-end system security in regard to data exchange between systems both internal and external.
• Provide security insight and guidance to other functional groups within the company to reduce unnecessary risk.
• Provide practical security best-practice guidance to company -wide networking initiatives.
• Research emerging security technologies for their application in the company's computing environment.
• Monitors and enforces security procedures.
• Analyze impact of existing or proposed projects on the enterprise infrastructure to ensure projects are not compromising the security of the infrastructure or security policies.
• Collaborating with systems, network, database, technicians on proposed projects to ensure security is maintained.
• Promote and increase security awareness and training in the company.
• Provide independent assessments of network security on an as needed basis

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Proven experience (7+ years) as a Systems Administrator
• Excellent communication skills, with an ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Knowledge of Meraki Switches and WAPS, network connectivity, network services, and network security
• Hands on experience of managing Microsoft Azure, Entra, O365, Windows Operating Systems, Windows Domains, Active Directory, and Group Policy
• Hands on experience of supporting Windows PC, mobile devices, and peripherals.
• Experience patching Operating Systems and applications, firmware upgrade, and Cybersecurity tools.
• Ability to perform in a demanding, deadline-driven environment with rapidly changing priorities.
• Highly organized and communicative, especially in the development of actions plans and to ensure accountability and follow-through
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and senior management

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree preferred.
• Proven experience (10+ years) as a Systems Administrator with some transportation experience

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Meraki Switches
• WAPS
• VMWare environment
• Network connectivity
• Network services DB2
• Network security
• Microsoft Azure
• Entra
• O365

Workshift:
M-F (Day) (United States of America)

Education:

In compliance with Federal and State equal employment opportunity laws, qualified candidates are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, non-job-related disability, or any other protected group status.