The Loop Factor has an immediate, full-time job opportunity for a Senior System Administrator, with our client, a University in the Greater New Orleans area. The candidate will report to the Network Enterprise Technical Support Director and perform projects related to the design, installation, operation, support, upgrades, and maintenance of infrastructure, including software, servers, networking storage alongside a dynamic and collaborative team. The position is onsite in New Orleans, LA.
Qualifications
- Provides user support for server hosting requests, problem resolution, system changes and upgrade
- Analyzes infrastructure performance and resolves problems and/or makes appropriate recommendations
- Ensures that all aspects of operability are delivered as part of the implementation process while also ensuring that existing service levels are maintained or improved
- Contributes to and ensures full compliance to operational standards, procedures, and best practices
- Serves as an expert in all data storage needs and complex architectures required by mission critical applications for the university
- Possesses extensive knowledge and best practices for disk array local and remote replication and mirroring, NAS (Network Attached Storage), NAS Virtualization, SAN (Storage Area Network), Backup Methodologies and Technologies
- Knowledge of complex disk array software and administration tools on various storage array subsystems and platforms
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Must have strong strategic planning, system administration, and development technology skills
- Serve as a team lead in the planning, development, and coordination of operations and projects for current and future infrastructures
- Ability to prioritize and manage several projects and milestones simultaneously
- Anticipates impact of growth and changes in operations, and recommends design and/or process changes
- Participates in disaster recovery/business continuity planning including backup and recovery procedures and higher availability configurations
- Ensures data/media recoverability by implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations
- Serves as project liaison - implementations or upgrades, acts as the focal point for communications between Cyber security and the other Project Leaders
- In depth knowledge of and support experience in SAN, NAS, DASD, fiber channel, and cloud storage environments
- Maintains policies and standard procedures to increase system uptime
- Monitors security alerts and ensure appropriate patches are applied in an automated and timely fashion;
- Documents and maintains system standards; researches and recommends innovative approaches for system administration tasks
- Creates and maintains standard OS installation images for virtualization
- Evaluates and manages appropriate software and hardware allocations to achieve an optimum performance level
- Possesses extensive knowledge of NAS constructs (Aggregation, Volume I Filesystem, Replication, Snapshots, QTrees I Virtual Volumes)
- Possesses knowledge of TCP/IP and related protocols
- Performs backup support for NAS, Windows, and Unix systems
- Performs capacity planning for projecting future growth
- Builds and/or updates servers and configures hardware and virtual machines (VM), applications, peripherals, services, networking, storage
- Experience in working in three tier environments (web-app-DB)
- Knowledge of industry best practices and standards for IT (ITIL) change control, project, management, and software development
- Proficient in Linux and Windows
- Performs other duties as assigned
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or closely related degree