IT Systems Adminstrator

Job Title

New position to support expansion of and long-term, IT infrastructure needs

Support global validation and engineering teams in Mossville (IL), Tucson (AZ), Brisbane (Australia), and Bangalore (India)

Overall team is responsible for testing bi-annual Client’s product line used by global mining customers as part of the staffed and autonomous surface and underground mining operations within self-managed IT environment.

Variety of Windows server, SQL, etc. versions are concurrently maintained to ensure MineStar product compatibility across an array of commercially available and supported IT infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Provide IT administration for Client’s global validation environment. Responsibilities include administering access to test servers, ensuring servers are up to date with regular security patches and updates to Window server VMs and Unix VM, generate and manage security certificates, troubleshooting various issues within validation environment, monitoring server health and identifying any performance concerns within environment, maintaining SQL databases for each test cluster, coordinate necessary updates with global corporate IT, engineering, and validation teams.

Top 3 Technical Skills Required

Windows server 2016 – 2022 administration

• SQLServer database administration experience
• Experience using VMWare to manage Windows and Unix VMs

Additional Skills Required

• Windows server 2016 – 2022 administration
• SQLServer database administration experience
• Experience using VMWare to manage Windows and Unix VMs
• Azure or other cloud architecture experience
• Active Directory
• Windows security certificate generation and support
• Network administration experience
• Firewall administration experience
• Python or other scripting language experience
• Windows 365, Outlook, Teams, and other standard office product proficiency

Desired Skills

• Azure DevOps experience
• QA, UAT, or other application testing experience
• Ubuntu OS experience
• LDAP

Soft Skills Required

• English proficiency.
• Ability to work in a complex work environment.
• Ability to work in a diverse, multicultural team environment.

Education & Experience Required

• 10 years of IT administration and support experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT/Engineering or equivalent professional certification (Ex. Microsoft).

(Desired) Relocation to the Peoria, IL area but will accept candidate working in Pittsburgh or Tucson Client’s locations.