Sr System Administrator II Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Sr System Administrator II to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Perform root cause analysis to resolve issues quickly in a complex IT environment;
- Provide budgeting input and create purchase requests for projects, maintenance, capital, and expenses;
- Ensure that knowledge is retained through documentation of procedures and knowledge-base articles;
- Drive process improvements and make recommendations for continuous service improvement;
- Work within required SLAs for the business and provide regular and frequent status updates;
- Ensure high availability and security by updating and patching systems;
- Be able to work independently with excellent verbal/written communications skills;
- Manage and execute on projects within the team and cross-functionally;
- Identify key risks on the technical design and work with involved teams to mitigate;
- Partner with cross functional teams of IT and vendors to design and deploy virtualization infrastructure solution based on the project requirements;
- Contribute to infrastructure technology strategies by staying up-to-date on industry trends and best practices;
- Monitor systems and services globally;
- Evaluate and manage vendors and contracts within budget;
- Manage and maintain windows servers, support monitoring & applications, etc;
- Follow policies and procedures including those for ITIL incident, problem, change, and release management.
Requirements:
- VMware and Microsoft certifications are desirable;
- Previous technical lead experience a plus;
- Strong working knowledge of VMware ESX environment, Citrix VDI and HP/Cisco blade infrastructure;
- Relevant Certifications on Cisco like CCNP-R&S , CCNP-DC , CCIE-DC, CCIE-R&S;
- Strong working knowledge of Windows server administration;
- Experience with AWS/Azure SaaS technologies is highly desired;
- Experience in a heterogeneous environment (including Linux);
- Strong working knowledge of system monitoring;
- Strong knowledge of applications architecture components;
- Must have Solid understanding of modern Data Center design and networking concepts including routing protocols, VLANs, DMVPN, IPsec, and TCP/IP;
- Experience with Cisco Nexus/Catalyst switches, Palo Alto firewalls, Cisco Routers, Riverbed WAN accelerator, Cisco Wireless, Cisco ASA and Cisco ISE;
- Must be able to work well with others;
- Organized and being detail oriented with high initiative;
- Strong working knowledge of security and system best practices;
- Strong project management and time management skills.