Senior Network Administrator - Houston, United States - Clearpoint

Description

The Senior Network Administrator will be responsible for setting the strategic direction and overseeing the network, establishing and maintaining network standards, and ensuring network stability and security across the organization.

• Establish network and infrastructure standards across the organization.
• Install, configure, and maintain physical and virtual server and network infrastructure platforms.
• Respond to and resolve network related incidents in a timely manner, address alerts and escalations, and work with IT leadership, other IT teams, and vendors to produce strategic solutions to recurring problems.
• Assist in the configuration and troubleshooting of IP based peripherals such as printers, scanners, mobile devices, etc.
• Monitor and analyze network traffic for potential security threats and vulnerabilities and implement appropriate mitigation strategies to minimize risk.
• Maintain inventory of network hardware, software and licensed assets.
• Maintain network topology and diagrams, network device alerting structure and network management tools in general to ensure all devices location and status are known 24x7 and detected issues actioned.
• Train users to successfully operate new systems and equipment as needed.
• Conduct network vulnerabilities scans and privileged access rights reviews at specified periods i.e., weekly, monthly, quarterly.
• Establish and maintain network device patching cadence.
• Maintain network backups and ensure periodic testing as part of DR plan.
• Participate in 24/7 On-Call Rotation and act as primary contact point for network related issues

• 8+ years of experience as a Network Administrator
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft cloud technologies, server platforms, etc.
• Strong knowledge of on prem and cloud routing and switching (FortiNet, Cisco, Meraki, etc.)
• Strong problemsolving and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work well independently and as part of a team.
• Strong knowledge of On-Prem Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, etc.
• Microsoft and Cisco related Admin certifications (Fundamentals, Identity, Azure,)
• Proven experience modernizing and maintaining corporate systems.
• Experience troubleshooting network and connectivity issues.
• Knowledge Microsoft Server (On-Prem) and Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge of Routing/Switching strategies

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.