System Administrator

• Participate as a member of a small team that works cooperatively to ensure system infrastructure and operating systems are available to support applications.
• Analyze, evaluate, plan, implement, configure, patch, upgrade and tune software and hardware in virtualized, highly available, and stand-alone environments.
• Automate manual processes such as patching, updates, server builds, and monitoring.
• Document procedures and update standards for new or modified systems and environments.
• Ability to work in a datacenter environment to provide technical support and asset management.
• Follow Change Management policy and Incident resolution timelines.
• Open and respond to required Change Requests and Work Tickets.
• Respond to systems alerts and be part of a 24/7 rotation for on-call production support.
• Review HPE, Red Hat, and VMware security notifications and deploy updates as necessary.
• Gather, evaluate, and measure data on performance/capacity and report on key measurements.
• Proactively identify problems and provide solutions to management before implementing change.
• Prevent downtime, ensure system availability, monitor performance, manage disk capacity, and ensure system security.
• Design solutions to technical problems and implement new systems or infrastructure changes. Participate in roadmap discussions for future infrastructure improvements.
• Monitor critical systems and take corrective actions prior to failures.
• Prepare for disaster recovery and ensure that appropriate backups are completed and tested.
• Troubleshoot software and hardware failures and work with vendors for support and escalation.
• Establish and maintain security and integrity controls.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

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Linux Systems Administrator