System Administrator 2

System Administrator 2

Location: Vancouver, WA (Onsite) Duration: 12-month Contract (with possible extensions up to 5 years) Pay Range: $50.86 – $52.80 per hour

The role of the System Administrator is to provide operating system support in order to provide sustainable, stable and secure enterprise level servers including backup recovery, performance tuning, upgrades/patches, maintenance, troubleshooting, permissions and file sharing. The System Administrator installs, configures, and supports management approved local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and Internet systems or a segment of a network system. This role monitors the network to verify network availability to all system users and may perform necessary maintenance to support network availability.

Position Responsibilities:

• Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
• Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary.
• Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures to protect data, software, and hardware.
• Configure, monitor, and maintain email applications or virus protection software.
• Operate master consoles to monitor the performance of computer systems and networks, and to coordinate computer network access and use.
• Load computer tapes and disks, and install software and printer paper or forms.
• Design, configure, and test computer hardware, networking software and operating system software.
• Monitor network performance to determine whether adjustments need to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future.
• Confer with network users about how to solve existing system problems.
• Monitor and test Web site performance to verify Web sites operate correctly and without interruption.
• May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software.
• Administer network security measures.
• Implement and integrate new system architecture into an existing environment.
• Deploy highly available technologies such as replication, load balancing, geographic clustering.
• Install and configure server hardware including operating system and additional software to configure for optimal use.
• Identify standard monitoring requirements and scripting or applying additional setting requirements.
• Troubleshoot hardware and system level problems.
• Interpret architecture and design configurations from vendors or other teams to enable clear implementation standards and guidelines.
• Document implementation guidelines and installation guidance.

Position Requirements:

Education & Corresponding Experience

• An Associate or Bachelor's Degree in in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a directly related technical discipline is preferred:
• With an applicable Associate or Bachelor's degree: 3+ years of experience is required.
• With a degree not in applicable fields or no degree: 5+ years of experience is required.
• Experience must include direct work experience in Information Technology performing System Administration.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• A practical knowledge and experience sufficient to successfully perform Active Directory administration and troubleshooting
• Windows operating system installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Experience using Powershell
• Administration of print servers, network printers, and basic troubleshooting of printer services.
• A working knowledge and experience sufficient to successfully troubleshoot Windows operating systems using text-based logs, windows event logs, and various utilities.

Preferred Technical Skills & Experience

• Experience setting up and administering an enterprise PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) certificate infrastructure.
• Experience administering computer systems in a 24/7 high availability operational environment.
• Linux (Bash).
• Service Desk Experience & Ticket Management.
• Experience with Cisco command-line interface (CLI) for network device configuration, management, and troubleshooting.
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving issues within complex authentication systems, such as LDAP, Kerberos, or Active Directory, and Multi-factor authentication systems.
• Software Packaging.
• Security & Compliance Reporting.
• Administration and maintenance of computer systems infrastructure management tools or systems including anti-virus, patch deployment, log management, software deployment and backup and recovery functions.
• Administration and maintenance of network and direct attached server technologies including SCSI, iSCSI, CIFS, and SMB technologies.
• Administration of virtualization technologies including VMWare and Hyper-V.
• Administration and maintenance of GPS time distribution systems.
• Experience administering both network and host-based firewalls.
• Experience troubleshooting LAN connectivity problems.
• Experience administering DNS in a multi-domain environment.
• Experience using specific technologies such as Splunk, Remote Desktop Services, IIS, Apache, Wireshark, Sysinternals Tools, Checkpoint Firewall, HP ProLiant server hardware, KVM hardware, PowerShell.

Everest Consultants offers the following benefits for this position: medical, dental, & vision insurance, short-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, and a referral bonus program, paid sick/vacation/holidays, and a health and welfare fringe benefit. Everest Consultants is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state, or federal civil rights laws.