24 Oct
Systems Administrator
Vacancy expired!
SmartSource is seeking a Systems Administrator for a contract-to-hire opportunity, onsite with our customer in Sheridan, WY Duration: 5 month contract to hireHours: Normal business
Job Summary:Systems Administrator maintains and ensures security, availability, and performance of computers, servers and networks in a multi-site Windows environment. Needs to be passionate about technology and know how to best meet end user and business needs. Job Functions:- Provide engineering solutions for various project and operational needs.
- Install new/rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
- Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
- Contribute to and maintain system standards.
- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks; identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.
- Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs.
- Provide Tier II/III other support per request from various sources; investigate and troubleshoot issues.
- Repair and recover from hardware or software failures; coordinate and communicate with impacted departments.
- Apply patches, packages and upgrades on a regular basis, to the latest code releases.
- Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
- Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.
- Maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
- Manages and monitors backup systems. Regularly tests and verifies restore capabilities.
- Assists with disaster recovery planning and the recovery of vital information.
- Administers cloud-based services such as Cerner, Infor, etc.
- Creates CCL, scripting such as a batch, VBscript, and PowerShell scripts to perform automated tasks.
- Ensures availability of network services (DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, NPS).
- Interacts with laptops and workstations in a client-server environment. Ensures devices interconnect seamlessly with diverse systems including authentication servers, file servers, email servers, application servers and administrative systems. Maintains anti-viranti-malware protection and security control.
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
- Minimum three years’ progressive experience in various Information Technology related functions including but not limited to information server standard administration.
- Minimum three years’ increasingly responsible computer applications programming and systems analysis
- Demonstrated competency in project management.
- Cerner experience desired.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of current communications devices and protocols, server and desktop technologies.
- Ability to manage multiple activities and tasks simultaneously.
- Facilitation and change management skills.
- Highly developed verbal and written communications.
- Ability to communicate in English; both verbally and in writing
- Excellent customer service skills
- Knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access expected
- Efficient use of MHSC help desk application is required
Vacancy expired!