Senior Systems Administrator (Windows Server / Linux / Kubernetes / Cloud / VMware)

Trigyn Technologies Limited; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Trigyn Technologies, Inc. is seeking a seasoned IT systems administrator to manage Windows Server and Linux across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments.

The role includes Kubernetes cluster support, security baseline enforcement, and high-availability configurations, with emphasis on automation and scripting. The candidate will document procedures, participate in change windows, and coordinate with agency staff while ensuring robust monitoring and incident response during scheduled

Qualifications

• Minimum 84 months of experience administering Windows Server operating systems in an enterprise
• Minimum 84 months of experience administering Linux server operating systems in an enterprise environment
• Minimum 60 months of experience administering Kubernetes or an equivalent container orchestration platform
• Minimum 72 months of experience administering servers in a public or private cloud
• Minimum 72 months of experience implementing high availability configurations for servers
• Minimum 72 months of experience administering privileged and administrative access
• Minimum 60 months of experience using infrastructure automation or configuration management tools
• Minimum 60 months of experience applying security baselines and remediating vulnerabilities
• Minimum 60 months of experience using enterprise monitoring and alerting tools
• Minimum 72 months of experience administering enterprise virtualization or hypervisor platforms

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on administration of Windows Server and Linux across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments
• Administer virtualization/hypervisor platforms and provision VMs
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and container platforms
• Configure privileged access controls and remediate vulnerability findings
• Monitor system capacity and performance, troubleshoot incidents
• Implement high-availability configurations and perform change management
• Document root causes and maintain technical docs and diagrams
• Support State technical staff and report progress in status meetings

Skills

Windows Server

Linux

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Automation

Education

Advanced education

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

PowerShell

Bash

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

Job description

Description

• Perform hands-on administration of Windows Server and Linux operating systems across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud-hosted environments, including installation, configuration, patching, hardening, and version upgrades.
• Administer enterprise virtualization and hypervisor platforms, including host configuration, virtual machine provisioning, and storage, network, and resource assignment.
• Administer Kubernetes clusters supporting UISIM workloads through node provisioning, component upgrades, and container platform troubleshooting.
• Configure and review privileged and administrative access controls, coordinate elevated account requests with agency database and security staff, apply security baselines, and remediate vulnerability scan findings.
• Monitor system capacity, performance, and availability using Agency tools, tune resources, and troubleshoot and resolve incidents and service requests during scheduled work hours.
• Implement and validate high-availability configurations (clustering, failover, replication, backup/restore testing), write and maintain automation and configuration management scripts, and execute change requests within approved change windows.
• Document root causes and corrective actions, while maintaining comprehensive technical documentation including system diagrams, operational procedures, and configuration records.
• Support State technical staff through guidance and knowledge transfer as directed by the State Project Manager, and participate in recurring status meetings to report progress, risks, and issues to State supervisory staff.

Mandatory Qualifications

• Works in the field of Information Technology, experienced in the usage and support of a collection of development platforms, technical architectures or business applications and products that run on those platforms - beyond that of a Programmer.
• Candidate is able to work independently, without assistance and provides guidance to others. May have an advanced education.
• 84 months of experience administering Windows Server operating systems in an enterprise
• 84 months of experience administering Linux server operating systems, such as Red Hat, Enterprise Linux, SUSE, or Ubuntu, in an enterprise environment, including installation, configuration, patching, and version upgrades.
• 60 months of experience administering Kubernetes or an equivalent container orchestration platform, including cluster provisioning, component upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• 72 months of experience administering server operating systems hosted in a public or private cloud environment, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform.
• 72 months of experience implementing and maintaining high availability configurations for server operating systems, including clustering, failover, replication, or backup and restore.
• 72 months of experience configuring and administering privileged and administrative access
• 60 months of experience using infrastructure automation or configuration management tooling, such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, PowerShell, or Bash, to provision or administer servers.
• 60 months of experience applying security baselines and remediating vulnerability scan
• 60 months of experience using enterprise monitoring and alerting tools to track servers
• 72 months of experience administering enterprise virtualization or hypervisor platforms, such as VMware vSphere and ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV, or Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, including host configuration, virtual machine provisioning, storage and network assignment, and resource management.

TRIGYN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and has been in business for 35 years. TRIGYN is an ISO 27001:2022 and CMMI Level 5 certified company.