Systems Administrator - IT

Title:Systems Administrator I

Division: Corporate       

Location: Houston, TX

LJA is an employee-owned company, and our people carry pride into their projects and their workplaces. We have talented employees across the nation and are always looking for exceptional individuals to join the LJA team.  With 47 office locations, LJA is growing and ready for talented people to help us build our future.  We offer great benefits and are 100% employee owned.

Summary: LJA Engineering is looking for a highly motivated Systems Administrator to join our IT team. Under general supervision the individual is responsible for installing, configuring, documenting, and maintaining core IT systems and services.

General Responsibilities:

• Work in a team environment to administer and setup on-premise/cloud services such as, but not limited to:
  • Virtual Environments
    • VMware
    • Nutanix AHV
  • Server Operating Systems
    • Windows
    • Linux
  • Active Directory
    • User objects
    • Computer objects
    • Security Groups
  • DNS
  • Group Policy
  • Windows Based File Shares
  • O365 Environment
    • Azure Active Directory
    • Exchange Online
    • Intune
    • SharePoint
    • Microsoft Teams
  • Monitoring systems, performance, and capacity needs
  • Maintain and create system documentation.
  • Provide escalated ticket support and problem resolution.
  • Travel to remote sites as needed.
  • Participate in afterhours work as needed.

Required Qualifications:

Education

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.

Experience

• 3+ years of IT work experience in infrastructure and server environments.
• Advanced experience supporting server operating systems and hardware.
• Microsoft Windows Server and Active Directory Management experience.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies.
• Strong analytical and quantitative abilities.
• Uses data to help drive decisions and resolutions.
• Strong desire around automation.
• Strong interpersonal and oral/written communication skills.
• Effective organization and time management skills.
• Fundamental knowledge of computer networking.
• Fundamental Knowledge in Active directory management: user, computers, security groups.
• Thorough understanding of file and folder access control lists.
• Fundamental knowledge of virtualized and SAN storage environments.
• Ability to work in command line interfaces.
• Ability to work with scripts such as PowerShell or Batch files.

Preferred Qualifications:

Education:

• Associates degree in computer science or a closely related field

Job Experience:

• O365 Administration experience: Azure Active Directory, MS Teams, Exchange Online, Intune
• Virtual and SAN storage environment Administration experience: VMware, Nutanix AHV, iSCSI
• File Share Management experience: Windows SMB, NAS Certifications
• VMware certifications
• Nutanix certifications
• Microsoft certifications
• Cloud based certifications

Physical Requirements:

• Sit for extended periods of time working on computer
• Occasionally lift or pull 35-80 pounds