On-Site Enterprise Systems Administrator (Windows/VMware)

Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation

Columbia (SC)

On-site

USD 85,000 - 120,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation in Columbia, SC is seeking a Systems Administrator to manage on-site enterprise servers, virtualization, storage, backup, and recovery. You will ensure availability, performance, security, and reliability of infrastructure through patch management, monitoring, and lifecycle activities.

The role requires strong Windows Server expertise, VMware vSphere, and storage/backup experience; certifications such as VCP/VMCE are preferred.

Qualifications

Strong enterprise systems administration knowledge across physical/virtual servers and storage.
Experience with Windows Server installation, configuration, patching, and lifecycle management.
Hands-on VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter administration experience.
Knowledge of storage provisioning, replication, and capacity planning.
Backup and recovery platforms experience including DR support.

Responsibilities

Administer and support physical and virtual server environments, including OS installation, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, patching, and lifecycle management.
Administer Windows Server operating systems and associated infrastructure services to ensure system availability, reliability, and performance.
Administer virtualization platforms, including VMware hosts, clusters, virtual machines, templates, and supporting infrastructure.
Administer enterprise storage systems, including storage provisioning, performance monitoring, capacity planning, replication, and lifecycle management.
Administer backup and recovery platforms, including backup monitoring, retention management, replication, restore testing, and recovery activities.
Develop, maintain, and execute disaster recovery and business continuity procedures for infrastructure systems.
Monitor server, virtualization, storage, backup, and infrastructure environments to ensure availability, capacity, performance, and operational health.
Perform advanced troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for server operating systems, virtualization platforms, storage systems, backup solutions, and infrastructure services.
Implement and maintain infrastructure security controls, including server hardening, patch management, vulnerability remediation, privileged access management, and security logging.
Coordinate infrastructure upgrades, hardware replacements, firmware updates, vendor support activities, maintenance contracts, and lifecycle planning.
Participate in infrastructure projects and provide technical recommendations regarding system availability, scalability, performance, reliability, and recoverability.
Provide technical support and escalation assistance for infrastructure-related incidents and operational issues.
Participate in scheduled maintenance activities, disaster recovery testing, incident response, and on-call support as required.