System Admin

Samsung; Moonachie (NJ); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsung is seeking a Sr. Administrator in Moonachie, New Jersey, to support an enterprise data center environment. This role involves optimizing systems and resource utilization while overseeing the day-to-day operational activities of configuration, maintenance, patching, and troubleshooting.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, with at least 5 years of relevant experience, including extensive Windows administration and vendor certifications. The position requires strong technical skills in VMware and Microsoft products.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Windows experience.
• 5 years IT related experience in a production data center environment.
• Hands-on experience with Windows system and clustered compute management.
• Vendor certifications in Microsoft, VMWare, or Storage.

Responsibilities

• Optimize physical and virtual systems and resource utilization.
• Assist with quality assurance processes for monitoring computing environments.
• Provision Windows/Linux operating systems using VMware Sphere/vCenter.
• Plan and execute installation and configuration of systems.

Skills

Windows administration

VMWare

Configuration management

Monitoring tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

MS SQL

Exchange

Sharepoint

Job description

Job Description

Sr. Administrator will work on a team of engineers supporting an enterprise data center environment managing the daily activities of configuration, maintenance, patching, updating and troubleshooting of the operational systems.

Responsibilities

• Optimizing physical and virtual systems and resource utilization, while continuing to provide system capacity analysis and planning
• Assists with development to include a viable quality assurance process for monitoring and managing the computing environment throughout the lifecycle
• Use of in-house developed/commercial Monitoring and Management tools
• VMware Sphere / vCenter for provisioning Windows / Linux operating systems on ESXi hosts
• Plan and execute the installation and configuration of Windows/Linux
• Configure, optimize, monitor, operate and maintain systems throughout lifecycle
• Plan and execute patches and troubleshooting problems
• Configure Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2. Deep understanding of GPO, File/Folder Replication and Windows domain knowledge.
• Install, configure and manage MS products such as Exchange, Sharepoint, MS SQL, IIS and so on.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• 3+ years of Windows experience
• Total of 5 years work experience; or 5 years IT related experience working in a data center (production environment)
• 4 years of hands on Windows system and clustered compute management including patching, scripting, performance analysis, and system recovery and disaster planning
• Vendor certifications in (Microsoft, VMWare, or Storage)
• Windows administration experience including MS application products - Exchange, Sharepoint, MS SQL, IIS and so on

Preferred Skills

• 2+ years of experience with provisioning of services, monitoring, upgrading hardware and software, configuration management, and understanding and maintaining services, such as AD, DFS, FTP, DNS, DHCP and bare metal builds from scratch with/without domain service
• Experience with Remedy and opening/closing/transferring problem tickets
• Data-center/Server Operational Components (Monitoring, Management, etc.)
• Asset Management experience with tools and process
• Basic network administration experience