Under the general direction of IT leadership, the Senior System Administrator performs a variety of technical tasks in the area of computer systems and networks.
Summary of Job Functions- Participate in supporting and maintaining all Server Operating Systems and services
- Maintain system patching, ensure current backups, analyze systems for performance tuning
- Perform root cause analysis on incidents on supported systems hardware and OS/software
- Increase/improve automation in the areas of Virtual Machine provisioning & configuration
- Data center operations - rack and stack new servers & storage, cable management for storage and networking
- Ability to administer cloud portals including Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure
- Set up and configure new cloud-based environments; must be able to recommend best practices
- Knowledge of lift and shift migration techniques for workloads from on-premises to cloud
- Collaborate with research and infrastructure teams on high-performance and high-density compute environments
Minimum Requirements - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or another related field
- 7+ years of progressive systems administration experience in enterprise environments
- 5+ years administering an Enterprise Virtualization product (VMware vSphere preferred)
- 5+ Years Cloud Knowledge (AWS and/or Azure plus M365)
- Experience with Backup replication, air-gap strategies, and restore validation (Commvault preferred)
- Setup and maintenance experience with Enterprise storage platforms (SAN/NAS) - Pure Storage, Dell/EMC Isilon, or similar
- Ability to work in Jupiter Office 4+ Days per week (off-hours availability required for planned maintenance windows)
Preferred Skills and Previous Experience - Experience with VMware Horizon or another VDI solution
- Active/active (hot/hot) data center architecture - RPO/RTO planning, workload distribution, and failover testing
- Zerto/VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) or equivalent - automated failover and failback orchestration across data centers
- Data center systems management - Dell hardware experience preferred
- Windows Server / Active Directory experience
- Linux experience (Debian/Ubuntu preferred)
- High Performance Computing (HPC) - cluster design, NUMA tuning, low-latency networking
- Containerization experience (Kubernetes or Docker)
- Security-conscious approach to systems administration - hardening, least privilege, patch discipline, and familiarity with endpoint protection platforms (CrowdStrike preferred)
- Network security tooling experience - Zscaler or similar
Compensation and Benefits - Highly competitive base salary
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
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