Systems Administrator - Waukesha, United States - Husco

Description

POSITION SUMMARY

Husco provides individuals the opportunity to pursue a career within a fast-paced, industry leading and entrepreneurial organization. The Systems Administrator is responsible for connecting business needs to a global systems infrastructure including storage, windows file systems, active directory, virtual servers, application servers, cloud, and others across a hybrid of on-premises and cloud data centers. This position is accountable for the configuration, maintenance, enhancement, and ongoing health of systems infrastructure and leads Level 2 systems service desk support. The Systems Administrator position requires a professional committed to continuous personal development, comfortable as an individual contributor and can work as part of an international IS team to address routine support requests, unplanned break/fix issues, and larger project-based initiatives. Successful individuals will have a sense of urgency, be self-motivated, customer focused, comfortable working with stakeholders across all levels of the organization, is organized and detail oriented.

Husco is committed to building a diverse environment for employees to be able:

• To have the flexibility of their own work and put a personal 'stamp' on their output
• Continuously expand and develop their professional talents, skills, and knowledge
• Create a product for our customers that serves a greater purpose to communities around the world

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

• Perform ongoing systems support and administration tasks (ex: user/group, security permissions, group policies, application services); research event-log warnings and errors.
• Troubleshoot areas of poor performance and identify effective solutions to resolve issues both in the immediate future and for the longer term.
• Analyze, isolate, and address issues causing systems efficiencies and present opportunities for improvement to IT leadership.
• Support scalable, secure, high-performing system solutions with a "cloud only" enterprise mindset.
• Identify and manage cost optimization opportunities, regularly driving down the cost of commodity IT and always maintaining a value for cost mindset.
• Monitor system health using existing management tools and respond to hardware issues as they arise; help build, test, and maintain new servers when needed.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 1 year of hands-on experience with network attached storage (NAS) systems, Backup systems, Virtualization (VMware), Windows systems including Active Directory, DHCP, and DNS
• Familiarity and comfort with cloud-based solutions - specifically Azure and Office 365
• PowerShell experience, Nutanix experience, and SQL experience are all a plus.
• Strong organizational, troubleshooting, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to make challenging decisions in a timely fashion across highly complex and multidimensional opportunities.
• Willingness and ability to travel, as necessary (up to 10%)
• (Authorized to work in the United States.)

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• In a workday, this person may be required to sit 80%, stand 10%, walk 10%, squat or kneel, twist, and drive / travel.
• Will lift from 1 to 35 pounds. Lifting may include miscellaneous materials if required.
• Fine manipulation is needed for PC work and use of other office equipment.
• Visual requirements include ability to read and follow directions.
• This person may encounter office hazards. Temperature and humidity are normal for this position and there are no unusual atmospheric conditions.
• Will be required to wear personal protective equipment in posted areas of the plant, including safety glasses, ear plugs, and safety shoes.
• Total awareness of the plant environment as it pertains to the safety of other employees, operation of equipment, handling of equipment/materials, and visitors is required.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. (All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others). The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities.

(This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.)

(HUSCO IS PROUD TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.)