Server Administrator

Inova Health System; Falls Church (VA); Remote; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision coverage

401(k) matching

Education assistance

Mental health support

PTO & parental leave

Flexible work schedules

Hybrid career opportunities

Job summary

Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA seeks a Server Administrator to join our IT team. This full-time role offers mostly remote work with regular daily hours and some on-call availability for incident support.

You will monitor Windows Server environments, apply patches, manage backups, and enforce security baselines while contributing to disaster recovery planning. Collaboration with IT and clinical teams is essential to maintain reliability and patient data protection.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years of additional relevant experience.
• Minimum 2 years of enterprise Windows Server administration experience.
• MCSE certification within six months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Resolves problems and communicates statuses to stakeholders; ensures security and availability.
• Monitors hardware, server resources, logs, and backups; performs disaster recovery tests.
• Applies OS patches, upgrades, and configures new services with security in mind.
• Documents policies, procedures, and standards for maintenance and recovery.
• Defines and manages disaster recovery and business continuity procedures.
• Manages Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 environments and security baselines.
• Configures CPU/memory/disk; documents configurations and changes.
• Makes recommendations for growth; performs performance tuning and audits.
• Supports various computing resources including clusters, web apps, databases, and file servers.

Skills

Windows Server administration

Active Directory

DHCP/DNS

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4 years of additional relevant experience

Job description

Inova Health is looking for a dedicated Server Administrator to join the team. Full-time Monday-Friday work mostly remote and mostly regular daily work hours but some on-call availability is required.

This position is eligible for remote work for candidates residing in the following states - VA, MD, DC, DE, FL, GA, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, WV.

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.

• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.

• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offeringup to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.

• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.

• Work/Life Balance: offeringpaid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, hybrid career opportunities.

Server Administrator Job Responsibilities:

• Resolves problems effectively and efficiently and documents measures taken. Escalates any issues appropriately when necessary. Effectively communicates problems and resolution statuses to all necessary stakeholders, including internal and external customers as well as appropriate. Proactively identifies and implements successful preventive measures including ensuring that possible capacity issues are identified and communicated with sufficient lead time to avoid business impact or disruption. Also ensures timely responses to possible production issues impacting security and system availability that could result in patient safety issues.

• Performs daily system monitoring by verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems/key processes, reviewing system/application logs and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

• Applies operating system patches and upgrades on a regular basis and upgrades administrative tools/utilities. Configures new services as necessary. Ensures that all security and vulnerabilities are mitigated/resolved based on the risk level of the vulnerability.

• Ensures proper documentation of policies, procedures and standards on the proper maintenance and recovery of operating systems. Ensures that system software is complete and accurate.

• In conjunction with other IT staff, and consistent with policies/procedures, defines and manages disaster recovery and business continuity standard operating procedures.

• Makes recommendations regarding solutions for projected growth. Manages Windows Server 2003/2008/2012. Manages server security baselines, security patches, mitigation of vulnerabilities , configuration and upgrades.

• Configures CPU, memory and disk partitions as required. Documents configurations, installations, upgrades, backup/recovery, security/operating systems standards and other required information to ensure support and maintenance of system infrastructure, data storage and associated systems.

• Ensures that preventative maintenance activities are performed by following/developing installation, upgrade and/or configuration documentation, following change control procedures, testing changes in non-production environments, developing back-out plans and monitoring infrastructure systems for possible performance issues, security issues, application issues and/or system issues.

• Ensures operating systems and systems software components are properly installed, maintained and supported for multiple platforms. Ensures documentation for all planned and implemented operating systems, systems software implementations and upgrades are complete and accurate including overall workplans, test plans, implementation schedules and blackout/recovery plans.

• Performs daily backup operations while ensuring that all required file systems and system data are successfully backed-up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary, adhering to !nova Health System's enterprise backup solution standards. Ensures system back ups are monitored on a routine basis.

• Performs ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades and resource optimization as required. Performs account audits, log reviews, system file audits, patch audits, service audits and ports/protocol analysis for servers that must remain operational.

• Supports computing resources including super computer clusters, web applications, client/server tools, database servers, file servers, data management systems and research workstations.

• Assists in the identification, evaluation and testing of potential new technologies and solutions required to meet future business needs. Supports both multi-tier development/test/quality assurance/production environments as well as research/analysis environments - requiring two very different sets of security and management policies/procedures. Ensures team adequately completes testing prior to implementations or upgrades in a production environment.

• Ensures protection of system and data by proactively identifying and deactivating any unnecessary services, ports or protocols on system infrastructure.

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree (or 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of degree)

• Experience: 2 years of experience minimum in an enterprise server environment with both administration and problem resolution of Microsoft Windows Server 200312008/2012 and DHCP/DNS/WINS/Citrix/Active Directory management expertise required.

• Certification: Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSE) within six months of hire.