Senior System Administrator

Synopsis:

We’re seeking a skilled senior system administrator to manage our critical infrastructure, including our data center, cloud, and server systems. You’ll work across diverse environments like Windows and Linux, ensuring optimal performance and security and tackling any technical challenges. This role is vital to our organization’s growth, and you’ll be a key player in our success.

A day in your life:

Managing infrastructure:

• Throughout the day, you keep a watch on our data center facility and all the critical systems it houses. It’s important to you that our server clusters are operating flawlessly to avoid any interruptions. You also handle virtualization tasks, such as troubleshooting virtual server environments like Hyper V, VMWare, and KVM.

Taking care of cloud infrastructure:

• Another aspect of your role involves overseeing the deployment and management of cloud-based providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It’s crucial that our cloud infrastructure meets all requirements.

Strategies and disaster recovery:

• You make it a point to regularly verify the effectiveness of our backup solution while ensuring it complies with standards. Disaster recovery is always at the top of your priority list, as you will be prepared for any situations that may arise. Your knowledge of storage solutions, like RAID configurations and data backup, really comes in handy during these tasks.

Support and Troubleshooting:

• Throughout the day, you respond to support requests from teams within Hurix. You promptly address these requests by troubleshooting any issues related to systems, applications and network connectivity. Your strong communication skills enable you to effectively collaborate with teams in order to efficiently resolve problems.

Security and Audit:

• Ensuring security is a priority you regularly conduct security audits.

Skills in the spotlight:

• Manage the data center, server infrastructure, Backups, DNS, DHCP, IIS, and File Server
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of server environment
• Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 Servers, Server Clustering, Virtual Server environment (Hyper-V, VMWare,
• KVM), Linux (RedHat, SUSE, CentOS, etc.)
• Storage Administration and being aware of various storage solutions (Raid configurations, File System & Permissions, cloud technology, flash, software-defined storage, and data backup disaster recovery).
• Manage Backup solution to comply with regulatory requirement
• Facility audit for Datacenter and its requirements.
• Compute headroom sizing, design solutions, provide working as per need and follow best practices for any implementation in DC to comply with any audit.
• Identify utilization patterns and their effect on operation, system availability and performance expectations
• Maintains documentation of the physical and Virtual infrastructure setup
• ITIL Process knowledge (Problem, Incident, Change Management)
• Candidates with certifications in MCSE, MCSA, VMware, Linux, and storage will be preferred.