Senior System Administrator - Windows & PowerShell Onsite

Everest Consultants, Inc.; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 175,621,000 - 184,877,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Referral bonus program

Paid sick/vacation/holidays

Life and AD&D insurance

Short-term disability

Job summary

Everest Consultants, Inc. is hiring a System Administrator 3 to support enterprise Windows infrastructure and virtualization in a fully onsite environment. The contractor will handle OS, backups, security, patches, and performance tuning for a large networked environment. W-2 and US citizenship are required.

The role emphasizes on-site work five days a week with responsibilities spanning network, server, and data protection tasks, including disaster recovery and security implementation.

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a directly-related technical discipline is preferred.
• With an Associate's or Bachelor's degree in applicable fields, 8 years of experience is required.
• Without an applicable degree, 10 years of experience is required.
• Experience must include direct work experience in Information Technology performing System Administration.
• Experience includes a minimum combination of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
• Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary.
• Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures to protect data, software, and hardware.
• Configure, monitor, and maintain email applications or virus protection software.
• Operate master consoles to monitor the performance of computer systems and networks, and to coordinate computer network access and use.
• Load computer tapes and disks, and install software and printer paper or forms.
• Design, configure, and test computer hardware, networking software and operating system software.
• Monitor network performance to determine whether adjustments are needed and future changes.
• Confer with network users about how to solve existing system problems.
• Monitor and test Web site performance to verify operation without interruption.
• Assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software.
• Administer network security measures.
• Implement and integrate new system architecture into an existing environment
• Deploy highly available technologies such as replication, load balancing, geographic clustering
• Install and configure server hardware including OS and software for optimal use.
• Identify standard monitoring requirements and scripting or applying additional setting requirements.
• Troubleshoot hardware and system level problems.
• Interpret architecture and design configurations to enable clear implementation standards and guidelines.
• Document implementation guidelines and installation guidance.

Skills

Windows administration

Networking

Scripting

Security hardening

Backup & recovery

Performance tuning

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in IT

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Active Directory

PowerShell

Windows Server

Nessus

VMware

Hyper-V

Splunk

Check Point Firewall

Veeam

Puppet

Job description

Everest Consultants, Inc. is hiring a System Administrator 3 to support enterprise Windows infrastructure and virtualization in a fully onsite environment. The contractor will handle OS, backups, security, patches, and performance tuning for a large networked environment. W-2 and US citizenship are required.

The role emphasizes on-site work five days a week with responsibilities spanning network, server, and data protection tasks, including disaster recovery and security implementation.