Experience and Education
Required:
Bachelor's degree in computer field and 5 years experience in field directly related to operating systems and systems administration, including experience working with and maintaining multiple server hosts in a combined environment. Experience with project management phases and methodologies as it relates to
assigned projects and tasks. Certification in at least one relevant operating system or associated technology. May be required to submit to a federal background investigation.
Job Duties:
- Works with current, commercial grade server hardware both for physical and virtual hosted environments.
- Works to identify and propose innovative and creative solutions that enhance or increase the efficiency of the services provided by Information Resources to the campus community.
- Perform network troubleshooting at the server host level, using associated tools, i.e. network traces.
- Works with server hosts running in a combined directory services environment and handles associated share/folder/file configurations and rights assignments.
- Works with operating system security components, both with identifying potential vulnerabilities and remediating said vulnerabilities where applicable.
- Analyzes and remediates problems involving server hardware, operating systems, database systems, applications or other related technologies associated with the server host system. This includes troubleshooting hardware and software issues using proficiencies with the proper tools and utilities.
- Works with system users and engineers to make recommendations, receive feedback and test additions and/or enhancements to the server host environment so that the systems and any associated/ hosted applications or virtual environments are updated, tested, developed and implemented as required.
- Proposes policies for server hardware, operating system and associated storage layout and design; works in tandem with scientific and technical community using knowledge of future trends to produce a combined systems solution that is based on user and system engineer needs.
- Installs server hardware, operating systems and associated application upgrades, in a manner that maintains proper system i integrity.
- Responsible for consulting with ends users, application analysts and vendors as a component of leading assigned project efforts; this includes the initial design and development phases, hardware/ software specifications and pricing and the follow on system design, build, configuration testing, go live and project closure tasks.
- Responsible for developing documentation relative to assigned projects and tasks including documentation related to system testing, disaster recovery and routine system administration processes; provide support for Call Center (HEAT) incidents.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- strong analytical, computer, and technical skills with experience in VMware and Storage platforms
- Responsible for the Organizations server computing systems
- Duties include installation, maintenance, upgrading of the Server/Storage hardware and software infrastructure and interfacing with users to determine support needs
- Comply with the Organization security standards
- On-call support and weekend work as required
- Experience in Change Management
- Be well organized in VMware - Tier 3 maintenance and support
- Deploy, Maintain VMware Environment in accordance with industry best practices
- Monitor performance, develop more effective techniques, troubleshoot performance issues and recommend solutions
- Storage -Tier 3 maintenance and support
- Experience with Dell/EMC Blade Systems and Dell SAN/NAS Platforms
- Knowledge of zoning, configuration backups, and ISL with Brocade Director/Switches
location: DALLAS, Texas
job type: Permanent
salary: $115,000 - 120,000 per year
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
Job Duties:
- Works with current, commercial grade server hardware both for physical and virtual hosted environments.
- Works to identify and propose innovative and creative solutions that enhance or increase the efficiency of the services provided by Information Resources to the campus community.
- Perform network troubleshooting at the server host level, using associated tools, i.e. network traces.
- Works with server hosts running in a combined directory services environment and handles associated share/folder/file configurations and rights assignments.
- Works with operating system security components, both with identifying potential vulnerabilities and remediating said vulnerabilities where applicable.
- Analyzes and remediates problems involving server hardware, operating systems, database systems, applications or other related technologies associated with the server host system. This includes troubleshooting hardware and software issues using proficiencies with the proper tools and utilities.
- Works with system users and engineers to make recommendations, receive feedback and test additions and/or enhancements to the server host environment so that the systems and any associated/ hosted applications or virtual environments are updated, tested, developed and implemented as required.
- Proposes policies for server hardware, operating system and associated storage layout and design; works in tandem with scientific and technical community using knowledge of future trends to produce a combined systems solution that is based on user and system engineer needs.
- Installs server hardware, operating systems and associated application upgrades, in a manner that maintains proper system i integrity.
- Responsible for consulting with ends users, application analysts and vendors as a component of leading assigned project efforts; this includes the initial design and development phases, hardware/ software specifications and pricing and the follow on system design, build, configuration testing, go live and project closure tasks.
- Responsible for developing documentation relative to assigned projects and tasks including documentation related to system testing, disaster recovery and routine system administration processes; provide support for Call Center (HEAT) incidents.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
qualifications:
- Experience level: Experienced
- Minimum 5 years of experience
- Education: Bachelors
skills:
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