System Administrator

Responsibilities

• IT support, design and troubleshooting ranging from large Server, SAN farms to complex platforms;
• Configuration / Troubleshooting of Virtual environments: VMware vSphere, vSAN, Horizon;
• Server management, Operating System (OS) knowledge (UNIX, Linux, Windows);
• Design, implementation and administration of backup and restore on solutions like VEEAM and StoreOnce;
• Administration of servers, bladesystems and composable infrastructure;
• Administration of Storage systems on traditional SAN, CEPH and VSAN;
• Managing OCP platform in DEVOPS mode with related supporting systems like Red Hat Service Mesh, GitHub, Helm, GitOps, Ansible Automation;
• Development, execution and troubleshooting of Ansible and Powershell scripts;
• PKI and certificate administration;
• Administration of monitoring systems like Nagios, Splunk;
• Administration of Oracle infrastructure, namely EXADATA and ZDRLA;
• Administration of mail servers and mail relays (postfix), anti-virus and anti-spam;
• Centralized deployment of software and updates.

Additional Tasks

The engineer will work in the area of the EU Workstation services and thus will have these tasks:

• Asset and stock management of workstations, screens and peripheral equipment;
• Maintaining the Asset Inventory for all EUWS equipment;
• Imaging of the workstation image;
• Maintenance of the Image;
• Active Directory management;
• Deployment of Windows 10 / 11 on the workstation and preparation of W10 / 11 image;
• Deployment & collection of workstations;
• Providing Laptops for training / exercises reasons;
• Windows updates and Patches to all workstations (WSUS & 3rd party updates, PDQ);
• Decommissioning / Sanitizing media (Hard disks, Memory modules, etc.) for all systems;
• Implementing / Maintaining the infra of Trellix Endpoint Security solution. EPO (Endpoint Policy Orchestrator & Device Control).

Education Requirements

Bachelor or Master Degree

Minimum Experience Requirements

• Minimum 9 years of relevant professional experience.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge and experience with HW management, racking, cabling, replacement, FW upgrades;
• HW / SW inventory and configuration management;
• Advanced knowledge and experience with VMWare (vSphere, vSAN, Horizon);
• Knowledge and experience with managing Oracle HW;
• Knowledge and advanced experience in Redhat, Windows OS administration of large farms;
• Active Directory (AD) / LDAP and Keycloak Management;
• Network Attached Storage (NAS) and distributed file systems;
• Centralized IT security policy management;
• Knowledge and experience in administration of servers, bladesystems and composable infrastructure;
• Knowledge and experience in administration of Backup & Storage systems (VEEAM, StoreOnce, vSAN, traditional SAN and CEPH);
• Advanced script development and troubleshooting skills (Ansible, PowerShell);
• Experience in software compliance monitoring and enforcement;
• Advanced knowledge of OCP platform administration with supporting tools like Red Hat Service Mesh, GitHub, Helm, GitOps, Ansible Automation;
• Knowledge to support mail servers and mail relays (postfix), antivirus and anti-spam;
• Basic knowledge on DB systems, MS SQL, Oracle and Elastic search;
• Knowledge and experience with monitoring and observability systems (configuration, customization, further development), Prometheus, Grafana;
• Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills;
• Experience in managing highly available environments and multiple site support;
• Familiar with ITIL / ITIL V3 processes, in particular incident, change, capacity and configuration management.

Additional Qualification, Knowledge and Skills

• Windows 10 / 11;
• Network Access Server (NAS) and Distributed file systems;
• Active Directory (AD) / LDAP Management;
• Centralized deployment of software and updates via WSUS and PDQ;
• Software compliance monitoring and enforcement;
• Script development skills (powershell or others).

Level: Senior

Delivery Mode: On-Site (Strasbourg, France)