System Administrator III

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Role: Systems Administrator III
Location: Tennessee (Onsite)
Contract: 6+ Months
Client: State Of Tennessee


Job Description:


Systems Administrator III
Acts in a lead capacity to design, implement, and manage local and wide-area networks to ensure maximum uptime for users on the Shelby County Government's network and provide supervision, leadership and support for subordinate network engineers.



Duties and Responsibilities:
• Supervises the operation and maintenance of the software infrastructure components of the County's multi-tier systems and other software platforms that host external and internal customer facing services.
• Designs and supervises the utilization and maintenance of the infrastructure components that provide the County's load balance and failover services, domain naming services (DNS), systems and other software platforms that host customer-facing services.
• Supervises the research and evaluation of technologies and solutions that provide integration, data exchange, and other supporting services utilized by the County's hosted software.
• Designs and supervises modifications to the datacentres and their support systems.
• Develops, writes, and administers standards and procedures associated with implementation and support of datacentre technologies, to include best practices for high availability power, cooling, security, monitoring, and reporting.
• Develops, writes, and administers standards and procedures for the installation, monitoring, and problem solving of system and application environments.
• Supervises the monitoring of systems performance and function, the dissemination of alert and fault indicators, and the development and implementation of pro-active reporting.
• Demonstrates good interpersonal and communication skills in all work efforts with customers, management, and staff.
• Provides high level of project planning / scheduling and supervision of project teams through use of coaching, training, and evaluations.
• Prioritizes and manages multiple projects effectively, while meeting aggressive deadlines.
• Executes RFP processes, evaluates RFP responses, and provides purchase recommendations.
• Assists in budget recommendations to management and future needs analysis for acquisition.
• Assists in presenting management recommendations related to purchasing and installing hardware and software.
• Performs other related duties as required or directed.