System Administrator 3

Title: System Administrator 3

Location: Portland, OR (Onsite)

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

Pay Range: $60.54 - $64.51 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, Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred.
  • With an Associate's or Bachelor's Degree in applicable fields, 8 years of experience is required.
  • With an Associate's or Bachelor's Degree not in applicable fields or without a degree, 10 years of experience is required.
  • pplicable Certifications may count for 1 year of experience.
• Experience must include direct work experience in Information Technology performing System Administration.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• 5 Years of knowledge and experience sufficient to administer disparate Active Directory domains and services necessary to support these domains such as DNS, ADCS, DFS.
• 7 Years of knowledge of and experience sufficient to successfully troubleshoot Windows operating systems using text-based logs, windows event logs, and various utilities.
• 5 Years of knowledge of and experience with TCP/IP and related services.
• 5 Years knowledge of and experience with Kerberos authentication in enterprise environments and a strong understanding of Active Directory (AD) integration, LDAP, and hybrid-joined infrastructure.
• 2 Years knowledge and experience of Active Directory Federation services as well as federated identity concepts to support authentication in a SaaS environment.
• 2 years Hands-on experience with Microsoft Entra ID and a solid understanding of SSO and identity protocols such as SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SCIM. Implementation of FIDO2 security keys and experience migrating large enterprise user bases from traditional MFA to passwordless solutions is desirable..

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Direct experience operating an enterprise cyber vulnerability scanning and assessment infrastructure such as Nessus.
• Experience configuring and managing systems using Puppet Enterprise.
• Strong knowledge and experience with PowerShell to automate processes, gather information and make infrastructure configuration changes.
• Windows operating system and software packaging, installation, and troubleshooting.
• VMware vSphere administration and operation..

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