Sr. Systems Administrator

Crane Worldwide Logistics LLC; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly Incentive Plan

136 hours of Paid Time Off

Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Recognition and Rewards

Paid Volunteer Time

Employee Discounts

Wellness Incentives

Job summary

Crane Worldwide Logistics LLC in Houston seeks a senior IT operations leader to manage a team of Systems Administrators and Engineers, and a parallel team of Database Administrators, ensuring reliable server infrastructures and proactive patching.

You will oversee vendor relationships, drive incident response, monitoring, and DevOps practices, and steer cross-functional projects using JIRA in an Agile environment. Strong communication and analytical skills are required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience administering server system infrastructures and technology.
• 6+ years of experience in a senior or lead role.
• Project Management certification preferred.
• Professional certification may be required in some cases.

Responsibilities

• Manage team of Systems Administrators and Engineers responsible for maintaining, monitoring, patching, and remediating issues in the server infrastructure.
• Manage team of database administrators responsible for maintaining, monitoring, patching, and remediating issues in our database environments.
• Manage relationships with 3 rd party vendors including but not exclusive to DBA and Sys Admin managed services.
• Ensure strong incident response processes keeping all stakeholders informed as well as maintaining status pages for the organization via the Incident io product.
• Maintain and improve monitoring practices, looking for ways to become as close to proactive as possible.
• Maintain patching schedules for both OS and application related patch cycles.
• Lead and Support cross-functional technology projects such as upgrades, migrations, or implementations.
• Engage in and support DevOps practices for infrastructure and security management.
• Exhibit a Site Reliability Engineering mindset when engaging with or developing reliability and incident response practices.
• Manage projects and priorities via JIRA project management system in an Agile based format.

Skills

Systems administration

Database administration

Team leadership

Incident response

DevOps practices

Communication

Tools

JIRA

Incident.io

Monitoring tools

Job description

• Mange team of Systems Administrators and Engineers responsible for maintaining, monitoring, patching, and remediating issues in the server infrastructure.
• Manage team (with lead) of database administrators responsible for maintaining, monitoring, patching, and remediating issues in our database environments.
• Manage relationships with 3 rd party vendors including but not exclusive to DBA and Sys Admin managed services.
• Ensure strong incident response processes keeping all stakeholders informed as well as maintaining status pages for the organization via the Incident io product.
• Maintain and improve monitoring practices, looking for ways to become as close to proactive as possible
• Maintain patching schedules for both OS and application related patch cycles
• Optimize existing systems for performance and reliability
• Develop and maintain SOPs for core functions
• Lead and Support cross-functional technology projects such as upgrades, migrations, or implementations
• Engage in and support DevOps practices for infrastructure and security management
• Exhibit a Site Reliability Engineering mindset when engaging with or developing reliability and incident response practices
• Manage projects and priorities via JIRA project management system in an Agile based format
• Excellent customer service, communication, and documentation skills
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to solve complex technical problems
• Other duties as assigned

Other Skills and Abilities

• Self-starter attitude with ability to troubleshoot and conduct own research on solutions.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Proven working experience systems operations.
• Ability to manage customer and other technological group relationships.
• High attention to detail, maintaining accuracy in all managed and implemented solutions.
• Ability to step outside normal role to fix issues that may not directly be related to just technology.
• Organizational and project management skills.

Education and Experience

• 10+ years of experience administering server system infrastructures and technology
• 6+ years of experience in a senior or lead role

Physical Requirements

• Job may require extended sitting or standing, use of standard office equipment
• Job requires the ability to use vision, adjust focus and work on a standard computer screen
• Use of audio-visual equipment is required

Professional Certification

• Project Management certification preferred
• Professional certification may be required in some cases

WHY SHOULD YOU WORK FOR CRANE?

At Crane, we believe in providing our employees with excellent benefits at a Great Place to Work.

We offer:

• Quarterly Incentive Plan
• 136 hours of Paid Time Off which equals 17 days for the year, that can be used for Sick Time or for Personal Use
• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement for education related to your job
• Employee Recognition and Rewards Program
• Paid Volunteer Time to support a cause that is close to your heart and contributes to our communities
• Employee Discounts
• Wellness Incentives that can go up to $100 per year for completing challenges, in addition to a discount on contribution rates

Come join the leader in logistics and take your career in the right direction.

Disclaimer:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

This position requires the final candidate to successfully pass an E-Verify Check.

Company benefits are contingent upon meeting eligibility requirements and plan conditions.

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