System Administrator

Skills

- Advanced knowledge of management systems - Advanced knowledge of evaluation installation/configuration of computer systems and network administration - Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange 2003. - Advanced knowledge Microsoft IIS and SQL Server WebSphere and Apache Tomcat - Advanced knowledge of SAN environments - Advanced knowledge of hardware and software troubleshooting skills - Advanced ability to provide system hardware and software capacity planning Tasks completed on a daily weekly monthly or annual basis project assigned - Execute system changes for application development team - e.g. deploying new applications adding / updating db2 objects configuring new message queues and configuring new alerts - Monitor production system IT infrastructure respond to issues as needed and complete problem reporting - Apply fix packs installation of new versions and execute test cases to confirm no issues after change(s) implemented into production - Maintain/Design Tier 1 application middleware hardware systems that meet corporate standards with a focus on integrating technical aspects of the environment to meet customers needs (IT and Business customers). - Maintain/Design Tier 1 database systems that meet corporate standards with a focus on performance and uptime. - Problem Analysis and remediation (RCA). Ensure incidents and problems in the team unit department division are supported and remediated through problem management with root cause analysis techniques countermeasure implementations horizontal communication between departments/divisions and pdca for effective permanent improvments. Knowledge skills abilities traits certifications years of experience to successfully perform job function Intermediate level Unix administration skills - AIX (primary) RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS (secondary) Korn - Bash - Python - AWK - SED scripting - installation patching monitoring system failover process scripting performance management of Hardware environment and OS software components.

Description

- Maintains and administers computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations
- Recommends changes to improve systems and network configurations, and determine hardware or software requirements related to such changes
- Responsible for trouble shooting server problems as reported by users
- Uses established change management processes, requiring operational procedures be performed with minimal customer impact
- Researches, evaluates and recommends software and hardware products
- Supports Web access and electronic messaging services and maintains a secure systems environment
- Provides new hardware specifications to users based on application and business needs and anticipated growth, installs new servers and maintains the server infrastructure
- Defines procedures for monitoring and evaluates, diagnoses and establishes work plan to resolve system issues
- Performs troubleshooting for complex hardware, software and network problems
- Works on multiple projects as a project team member, occasionally as a project leader