Systems Administrator

Personalized education starts at eScholar.

Company Description 

Personalized education starts at eScholar. Our company helps state, local and federal education agencies across the country solve their education data management and data warehouse challenges. For nearly two decades our solutions have enabled clients to integrate, manage and communicate their key data effectively. In that time we have built an organization of experienced professionals who understand our clients' needs. We value integrity, leadership, respect and diversity. We recognize the importance of communication and innovation. We enjoy working with people who can turn insight into action, who are strong analytical thinkers and creative problem solvers, and who are able to influence others, both with the written word and face to face. Those who share our vision, who work well independently and who have a demonstrated ability to engage positively with others, who treasure the potential for personal growth and the excitement and challenge of working in one of the largest markets in the country should consider a career with eScholar.

Systems Administrator

eScholar is seeking to fill the role of Systems Administrator. This position is responsible for daily management of the Infrastructure. This role will be responsible for supporting various projects that include infrastructure upgrades and implementation of new technologies.

Primary Responsibilities:

Manage operations and plan new build-outs and implementation initiatives

Work with development teams to facilitate application initiatives

Knowledge of technologies such as application and server virtualization, application hosting, server management, monitoring, Windows and Linux

Skills to include troubleshooting server issues

Knowledge and some experience with managed storage (NAS/SAN)

Managing Active Directory with adding/terminating users; assigning rights and access; resetting passwords; establishing email addresses; performing backups and restores

Ensuring technology documents/certificates such as product registrations, SSL certificates, maintenance agreements, service contracts related to technology operations or services are evaluated, updated and processed

Conduct capacity planning to enable timely purchasing of IT resources and equipment

Participate in strategic planning and development of operation plans for production and development environments

Perform timely internal customer support with a professional attitude

Research to identify effective new conferences/events. Analyze & summarize each event's results and capture learning after event.

Develop and execute marketing campaigns for the conferences and events (e.g. email, flyer, blog post, relevant social media posts for the events, etc.)

Qualifications:

Recommended 2-3 years minimum experience in IT field

Ability to work under pressure, managing multiple tasks with accuracy and to meet demanding deadlines, possessing strong ethics and the ability to maintain confidentiality

Must be willing to work the occasional weekend and evenings, and to be on call as required from time to time

Experience in hands on management of technology infrastructure consisting of Windows 2003/2008/2012, Active Directory, VMWare, Cisco routers/switches/Firewalls

Must maintain a sincere, polite and respectful "customer service" attitude with all users you support

For consideration, please apply on the careers page of our website http://www.escholar.com/work-at-escholar/

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are only able to contact those candidates whose qualifications most closely match the position requirements.

To qualify, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident alien ("green card holder"), temporary resident alien, refugee or asylee. Visa sponsorship is not available.

eScholar does not accept unsolicited resumes from vendors, such as placement firms, and will consider any unsolicited resumes to be the property of eScholar with no further obligation. eScholar works only with vendors in which we have a signed vendor agreement in place. Verbal or written commitments from any member of the eScholar staff  will not be considered binding terms.

eScholar LLC is committed to equal employment opportunity and employs all qualified persons without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, Vietnam Era Veteran status, genetic predisposition, or carrier status, or any other classification protected by the federal, state or local laws.

eScholar Company Values

Integrity

We are entrusted with the important responsibility of helping students achieve their educational goals. At eScholar we never lose sight of the protection and support of the students who have put their trust in us. This means that each member of our team strives constantly to be worthy of that trust, to accept and provide open and honest perspective in everything we do.

Leadership

eScholar not only serves education agencies like school districts and state education agencies, but leads our industry in becoming more responsive to students' needs. We do this by discovering innovative means to help students become more effective in achieving success. We value leaders who can align the success of our team to the success of our customers and to the ultimate success of the students.

Respect

eScholar team members must respect the mission we are focused on, as well as the perspectives of our customers and of the professionals we partner with. This requires that team members demonstrate that respect for others and their viewpoints and conduct themselves in a manner worthy of respect in return.

Diversity

eScholar is focused on helping individual students achieve the goals they have chosen for their lives. To accomplish this, we must value each person's culture and perspective and communicate and deliver our services in a manner which reflects that value. This imperative demands that we seek and cultivate a team that reflects this ideal.