System Administrator 3 - Pasco, United States - Everest Consultants
Description
Title:
System Administrator 3Location: Vancouver, WADuration: 12-month Contract (with possible extensions up to 5 years)
Pay Range:
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64.52 per hour
The role of the System Administrator is to provide operating system support in order to provide sustainable, stable, and secure enterprise level servers including backup recovery, performance tuning, upgrades/patches, maintenance, troubleshooting, permissions, and file sharing.
The System Administrator installs, configures, and supports management-approved local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and Internet systems or a segment of a network system.
This role monitors the network to verify network availability to all system users and may perform necessary maintenance to support network availability.
Position Responsibilities:
Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.
Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary.
Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures to protect data, software, and hardware.
Configure, monitor, and maintain email applications or virus protection software.
Operate master consoles to monitor the performance of computer systems and networks, and to coordinate computer network access and use.
Load computer tapes and disks, and install software and printer paper or forms.Design, configure, and test computer hardware, networking software and operating system software.
Monitor network performance to determine whether adjustments need to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future.
Confer with network users about how to solve existing system problems.Monitor and test Web site performance to verify Web sites operate correctly and without interruption.
May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software.dminister network security measures.
Implement and integrate new system architecture into an existing environmentDeploy highly available technologies such as replication, load balancing, geographic clusteringInstall and configure server hardware including operating system and additional software to configure for optimal use.
Identify standard monitoring requirements and scripting or applying additional setting requirements.Troubleshoot hardware and system level problems.
Interpret architecture and design configurations from vendors or other teams to enable clear implementation standards and guidelines.
Document implementation guidelines and installation guidance.
Position Requirements:
Education & Corresponding Experience
degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a directly related technical discipline is preferred.
8 years of experience is required with an Associate's or Bachelor's degree in applicable fields.10 years of experience is required without a degree or applicable degree.
Experience includes a minimum combination of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Working knowledge and experience sufficient to successfully support and maintain a virtualized and converged computer environment.
Required Technical Skills & Experience
5 years of experience with the following:
Working knowledge and experience sufficient to successfully support, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise Linux Infrastructure.
Preferred Skills & Experience
Experience in researching vulnerabilities and deploying security patches in a large IT infrastructure environment.
Troubleshoot a wide variety of issues across multiple applications, network devices and operating systems.
Experience using specific technologies such as SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, VMware Aria Suite, Load balancers, LDAP/AD, DNS, centralized patch/package management tools such as RHEL Satellite, NSX.Some knowledge of Windows infrastructure, i.e., active directory, group policy, PKI, et alSome experience working in cloud or private cloud environments.
Experience administering computer systems in a 24/7 high availability operational environment.Experience performing and analyzing scans using tools such as Nessus.
Everest Consultants offers the following benefits for this position: medical, dental, & vision insurance, short-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, and a referral bonus program, paid sick/vacation/holidays, and a health and welfare fringe benefit.
Everest Consultants is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state, or federal civil rights laws.
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