Systems Administrator
Reports To: Manager, IT and Business Process Technology
Employment Status: Full-Time Exempt
Post Date: March 2020
Overview
Benelogic is looking for a career driven IT systems expert to tackle high level projects and help maintain/upgrade existing infrastructure. We are looking for someone who works well with others and enjoys working in an open, honest and fast-paced work environment.
Responsibilities
High Level Projects (the fun stuff)
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Assist with architecture redesigns for hybrid cloud environments
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Introduce new collaboration technologies to the business
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Automation, Automation, Automation
Maintenance Tasks (the stuff we have to do)
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Create, manage, and maintain virtual machines hosting mission-critical data and services
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Perform hardware setup, software installation/configuration and the day-to-day administration of Microsoft operating systems and related services (e.g., Hyper-V, IIS, MS-SQL)
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Maintain the Active Directory structure and all interrelated authentication systems, including the administration of user accounts, shared resources and access permissions
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Help maintain and administer networking infrastructure (e.g., firewall appliances, core switches, load balancers, and Wi-Fi AP’s)
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Oversee storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, and cloud environments)
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Provide timely and effective on-call support for Benelogic's computing infrastructure including Web Servers, Application Servers, Exchange Servers and User Community (according to the defined SLAs)
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Assist with infrastructure maintenance tasks as required
Technical Skills
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Business work experience with Windows Server Operating Systems, Active Directory, and their related environments
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Administration, Maintenance and Configuration of Windows Failover Clusters
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Familiarity with Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Hyper-V, ADFS and Linux Operating Systems
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Familiarity with Dell, EMC, WatchGuard, F5 and Synology hardware
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Command line and PowerShell expertise
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Strong TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, WINS, SMTP, FTP/SFTP, POP3 and server load balancing knowledge
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Ability to interpret information security data and processes to identify potential compliance issues
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Experience with backup and restore methodologies
Expectations
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Willingness to learn new technologies
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Obtain a deep understanding of Benelogic’s product and service offerings
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Escalate issues or items when appropriate and necessary
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Work well with co-workers and external contacts
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Be passionate about work and driven to be outstanding
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Complete work on multiple projects on time with high quality and accuracy
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Communicate openly and honestly
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical staff
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Ability to be available 24/7, as required in order to support the high availability and uptime requirements of the business
Is This You?
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Systems Expert (Rapid subject matter expertise)
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Career Driven (prior experience with a demonstrated career advancement)
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Educated (Bachelor’s degree in CompSci, IST, MIS, InfoSec, or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience)
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Experienced (contribution to a high availability, high security environment is strongly preferred)
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Works well with others (can work on a team and independently)
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Honest and direct – that’s the style