System Administrator 3

Title: System Administrator 3

Location: Portland, OR (Hybrid)

Duration: 12-month Contract (with possible extensions up to 5 years)

Pay Range: $61.29 - $64.52 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.
• dminister 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

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Business Systems, Engineering or a directly related field is preferred.
• 6 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor's degree.
• 10 years of experience is required without an applicable bachelor's degree.
• Experience should include demonstrated work experience supporting and maintaining operational software applications in Computer Science/Information Technology and transforming data for automation efforts.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• 7 years of the following experience:
  • Experience in Database queries and stored procedures
  • Experience in Scripting to automate tasks with PowerShell
  • Experience in various operating systems like Windows, Linux, RedHat, and specific enterprise systems is crucial. This includes installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
  • Experience in troubleshooting skills to diagnose and resolve complex technical problems, system downtime, and hardware errors promptly.
  • Microsoft Office Suite applications, specifically PowerPoint, Access, and Project

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of and proficient skill in applying the following:
  • Designing and/or maintaining high availability systems having 24x7 support
  • Using Version Control Systems
• Proven experience collaborating with software developers, testers and users throughout the System Life Cycle (SLC)
• bility to create and maintain clearly written technical, user, and system documentation
• bility to analyze information and use logic to address work related issues and problems, with understanding of impact on current and future programs and processes.
• Provide a sustainable IT infrastructure by supplying cross training and functional documentation.
• Experience in all aspects of the software development lifecycle for a high availability environment.
• Experience using centralized repository based CMDB tools
• Knowledge of and experience working with:
  • Software development Lifecycle methodologies
  • Systems development and maintenance environments
  • High availability environments
  • Change management concepts and practices
  • Configuration management concepts and practices
  • Project management and coordination concepts and principles
  • Compliance and standards as applied to systems development and program management
  • Process and procedure development
• Experience in any aspect of software development lifecycle for a utility environment.
• Experience with the set-up, configuration or oversight of change and/or configuration management tools
• Experience developing process, procedures to support compliance efforts
• Excel at solving problems by debugging, troubleshooting
• Designing and implementing solutions to complex technical issues.
• Governmental processes and (electric) utility experience

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. #IND