Systems Administrator

Systems AdministratorResponsible for providing senior server and applications expertise to the District Technology team. Installs, configures, and maintains all servers (physical and virtual) and storage based devices within the Districts Windows/VMWare network infrastructure. Provide system administration for file, print, AD, DNS, DHCP, and application servers in a multi-platform environment. Serves as the lead of the desktop support team for advanced technical issues pertaining to desktops, servers, databases, and related software/hardware. Responsible for providing problem diagnosis, resolution, or escalation as needed.Manages the maintenance and security of all servers and applications across the network providing reliable, high availability services, and optimizing server infrastructure to achieve high performance and cost-efficiencies for virtual and non-virtual systems. Serves as administrator of all Nutanix, VMware, vSphere, and ESXi systems. Works collaboratively with the District desktop support team to ensure that desktop image issues are promptly addressed, documented and resolved in a timely and professional manner consistent with the highest customer service and professional / technical standards. Documents imaging processes and provides training as needed to help desk personnel in the areas in desktop imaging and general troubleshooting tasks. Manage the District's Entra and Active Directory environments; including multiple authentication systems, support identity automation, manage cloud applications servers and services, as well as using PowerShell to script changes and automate procedures. Perform maintenance, updates and upgrades on District physical and virtual Nutanix/Vmware servers and associated hardware/software. Configure access rights, and security for the Districts multi-platform server network; Establishes network performance criteria. Maintains the infrastructure of the AD Forest, DHCP/DNS, IP Printing, Database and SAN. Designs and deploys, in collaboration with other technology staff, all District backup and storage systems, providing advanced support and training as needed to ensure mission-critical data is being backed up in accordance with district policy. Leads the desktop support team in creating, testing, and deploying application packages and base images for workstations across the District. Serves as one of the Google domain super admins and collaborates with other super admins to ensure proper synchronization of systems (AD and Google). Serves as a member of the technology department's leadership team. Attends meetings as required and communicates status, accomplishments, needs, etc. Perform upgrades, patch management, and maintenance. Develop internal documentation for key systems and services. Provide and identify one on one support to other technology staff as needed.