IT Administration

 A worldwide distributor known for their luxury products is currently seeking a system administrator with extensive experience with Linux (5 years +) for their Cranston, Rhode Island Office. Duties for this system administrator position include, but are not limited to: 

• Manage aggressive individual projects and collaborate with IT peers at (Corp. and Local Level) and analysts on department and business needs.
• Adheres to Corporate IT Policies, SOPs, SLA and change management procedures.
• Participates in the building of servers, racks, and cabling for expansion and new sites.
• Create comprehensive technical architecture diagrams and documentation using Visio and other tools.
• Work with HP server hardware including blade technology and larger multiprocessor servers.
• Provide Linux, Windows server infrastructure installation, integration, maintenance and upgrades.
• Participate in various project related to design and implementation of new and/or existing server and storage infrastructure components.
• Ensure O/S, messaging and application security utilizing various software and appliances providing antivirus,anti-Spam, patch management.
• Conduct systems analysis and monitoring at the hardware, O/S and application levels ensuring system environment reliability and availability.
• Monitoring and management of infrastructure services such as NIS, BIND, Cluster Server, Sendmail and SysLogging.
• Proactively manage HP SAN and Netapp storage utilization and availability.
• Perform hardware and software installations, upgrades, and repairs on all systems.
• Actively participate in 24 X 7 crisis responses in the area of system administration; may be required periodically to work evenings and weekends when necessary to minimize business impact.
• Work with hardware and software vendors for problem determination and resolution as needed.
• Troubleshoot all production system issues, incoming support requests that are escalated from Service Desk.
• Performs all other system administrative tasks and duties assigned.
• Strictly follow Corp. IT support and server life-cycle management process.
• Function as 2nd level escalation for all customer service and support issues.
• Ability to produce creative solutions to business problems.

 This system administrator position is a full time with a salary range of 70-78K with a 5% bonus, based on experience.   RequirementsA suitable candidate for this system administrator position will have the following skills and qualifications:

• 5 years of Linux/Unix system administration experience.
• 3 years of Windows system administration experience in Active Directory, Exchange, SQL server.
• 2 years working experience in HP SANs or Netapp storage.
• 2+ years designing, deploying and maintaining a high availability VMware 2.5.x/VI3 environment.
• Solid understanding of storage area networks, Fiber Channel Switched Fabric, data replication techniques, and limitations and benefits of each.
• Solid understanding LUNs, disk based backup technologies, iSCSI,, HP server hardware.
• Substantial experience with Symantec Netbackup.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking, NFS, NIS, DNS, Linux account management, file permissions, security considerations, and clustering technologies are all essential to success.
• Understanding of fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts.
• Strong knowledge in Cluster Server; working knowledge in replication technologies.
• Ability to drive/lead problem resolution process to root cause, take initiative in identifying and fixing broken processes in production environment.
• Excellent understanding of disaster recovery components; Working knowledge of high availability strategies.
• Experience with performance tuning/capacity planning of servers (hardware and software levels).
• Responsibilities also include coding and scripting: Linux scripts, perl, shell scripts to enable system performance, capacity planning and tuning.
• Working knowledge of various systems security solution with a demonstrated ability of implementation.
• Ability to interface with and provide systems guidance and recommendations to other teams inside and outside of the IT organization, including application administrators and software developers.
• Thorough understanding and applied experience with CIFS, iSCSI, and SAN.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple problems and issues with minimal supervision, excellent organizational skills, a teamwork approach to work but also act independently to solve problems when necessary.
• Must be able to work in a flexible schedule, including nights and weekend.
• Strong organizational and analytical, leadership skills.
• Ability to work in complex, diverse environment with rapidly changing priorities.

 Please visit The Alpha Group, Inc. online at www.thealphagroup.com for more information about this system administrator position position and for a list of our available jobs. You can also email your resume to [Click Here to Email Your Resum].
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Country: USA, State: Rhode Island, City: Cranston, Company: The Alpha Group.