Lead Tier 3 System Administrator – On-site DC

ArdentMC; Washington; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ardent is seeking a Tier 3 System Administrator Lead to join our team on-site in Washington, D.C. The role focuses on ensuring 24x7x365 availability of the Museum's server ecosystem, including physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

You will lead escalation, patching, backups, and recovery efforts, guiding VMware, AWS, SQL databases, AD, and certificate services, while coordinating changes through Museum processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in Linux and Windows server administration and shell scripting.
• Ability to maintain operational integrity across on-premises, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Advanced troubleshooting across server hardware, OS, virtualization, storage, backup, databases, identity services, and network dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Lead administration, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and recovery for Windows and Linux servers (physical, virtual, cloud).
• Perform patching, storage monitoring, backup verification, certificate renewal, and vulnerability remediation.
• Administer VMware ESXi/vCenter, AWS EC2, databases, AD, DNS, SSL certificates, and patching practices.
• Automate repeatable tasks with shell scripting to speed up diagnosis and recovery.
• Provide Tier 3 escalation and after-hours support for critical incidents.

Skills

Linux

Windows Server

Shell scripting

Tools

VMware

vCenter

AWS

Active Directory

DNS

Job description

Ardent is seeking a Tier 3 System Administrator Lead to join our team on-site in Washington, D.C. The role focuses on ensuring 24x7x365 availability of the Museum's server ecosystem, including physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

You will lead escalation, patching, backups, and recovery efforts, guiding VMware, AWS, SQL databases, AD, and certificate services, while coordinating changes through Museum processes.