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Job Title: Systems Administrator
Location: Midland, TX
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The Systems Administrator is responsible for the overall administration, maintenance, and installation of all systems technologies used and supported by the organization. This position is required to work in office 4 days a week
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with other staff to research and resolve problems, applying knowledge of computer software, hardware and procedures to solve systems' problems. i.e., application, database, server, storage, network, security, NOC, etc.
- Administers infrastructure and systems (cloud and on-premise) as necessary to maintain the security, integrity, and usability of all systems tied to the information asset.
- Ensures stable performance through continuous performance tuning and alerting.
- Participates and leads the troubleshooting effort during incidents.
- Stays apprised of emerging best practices, technologies and suggest them when applicable
- Experience with Cisco (meraki) networking equipment
- Familiar with firewall and proxy procedures and activities
- Routing and protocol experience
- Experience with application load balancing equipment.
- Knowledge of WAN redundancy.
- Mapping and documentation skills.
- Previous usage of industry network monitoring tools.
- Usage of virtualization and networking in a virtual environment.
- Thorough understanding of VLAN structures.
- Wi-Fi security and configuration. - Preferably with HP Aruba Wireless a plus
- Sr. level of Switching & Routing (OSPF, Switching, VLAN, EIGRP, BGP).
Education & Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in related field preferred but not required
- 2-5 years experience in systems administration
- Strong experience strong PowerShell or other language scripting skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills surrounding server (Cloud) operating systems.
- Possess skills in utilizing monitoring tools; knowledge of standards, and processes including Infrastructure both on-premises and in the cloud.
- Must possess practical knowledge of transaction processing, application development, systems administration, and web infrastructure (web services, trend analysis, etc.).
- Must have proven understanding of underlying technologies - i.e., operating systems (Windows), networks, and databases.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure.
- Ability to work with technical architecture and implementation teams.
- In-depth understanding of Virtual Server technologies (Vmware, Hyper-V, etc.).
- A holistic understanding of a broad-ranged hardware ecosystem.
- Customer service oriented
- Ability to work independently
