System Administrator 3

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

Title: System Administrator 3(With Windows and Powershell Expertise)

Duration: 12-month Contract (with possible extensions up to 5 years)

Pay Range: $61.29 - $64.52 per hour

Candidates must be willing to work on our W-2. Due to federal contract requirements, only U.S. Citizens can be considered for this position. This is a fully 5 days a week onsite role.

The role of the System Administrator is to provide operating system support in order to provide sustainable, stable and secure enterprise level servers including backup recovery, performance tuning, upgrades/patches, maintenance, troubleshooting, permissions and file sharing.

The System Administrator installs, configures, and supports management approved local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and Internet systems or a segment of a network system. This role monitors the network to verify network availability to all system users and may perform necessary maintenance to support network availability.

Position 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 need to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future.
• Confer with network users about how to solve existing system problems.
• Monitor and test Web site performance to verify Web sites operate correctly and without interruption.
• May 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 operating system and additional software to configure 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 from vendors or other teams to enable clear implementation standards and guidelines.
• Document implementation guidelines and installation guidance.

Position Requirements

Education & Corresponding Experience

• 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.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• 2 years' experience with the following:
• Working knowledge and experience sufficient to successfully support and maintain a virtualized and converged compute environment.
• Working knowledge and experience sufficient to successfully support, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise Windows infrastructure using active directory, group policy, Powershell, and other Windows utilities.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience setting up and administering an enterprise cyber vulnerability scanning and assessment infrastructure.
• Experience administering computer systems in a 24/7 high availability operational environment.
• Administration and maintenance of network systems infrastructure management tools or systems including anti-virus, patch deployment, log management, software deployment and backup and recovery functions.
• Experience administrating and performing and analyzing scans using Nessus.
• Experience in researching vulnerabilities and deploying security patches in a large IT infrastructure environment.
• Windows operating systems packaging, installation, and troubleshooting.
• Administration of virtualization technologies including VMWare and Hyper-V.
• Experience with administering both network and host based firewalls.
• Experience troubleshooting LAN connectivity problems.
• Experience using specific technologies such as Splunk, Remote Desktop Services, IIS, Wireshark, App-V, Tripwire, Trend Micro, LANDesk, Sysinternals Tools, Puppet Enterprises, Checkpoint Firewall, Veeam backup, HP and Cisco server hardware, KVM hardware, PowerShell.

• Everest Consultants offers the following benefits for this position: medical, dental, & vision insurance, short-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, and a referral bonus program, paid sick/vacation/holidays, and a health and welfare fringe benefit.

Everest Consultants is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state, or federal civil rights laws.