Fantastic opportunity for an experienced System Administrator for our client firm in their Sarasota, FL office. What You'll Do:
- Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems.
- Introducing and integrating new technologies into the existing environment.
- Performing routine audits of systems and software.
- Performing backups and testing recovery.
- Applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes to servers.
- Installing and configuring new server hardware and software.
- Administration and routine maintenance for critical core services such as MS SQL server, Exchange, Domain Servers.
- Adding, removing, or updating user account information and group memberships, resetting passwords, etc.
- Answering technical queries by users.
- Responsibility for security of network and server systems.
- Responsibility for documenting the configuration of the network systems and servers.
- Perform maintenance and updates to VMWare server infrastructure.
- Troubleshooting any reported problems with servers/network.
- System performance tuning.
- Ensuring that the network infrastructure is up and running.
- Administration of email services in Office 365/Azure.
What You'll Bring:
- BA/BS in CS, EE, CIS, MIS or Mathematics from a 4-year university or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of Windows system administration supporting a production environment
- Well-developed and demonstrable understanding of Computer Science principles, basic networking concepts; OSI network layers, TCP/IP, routers, switches, systems, and servers such as DHCP, DNS and understanding of system and network security
- Well versed in Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 administration tasks, such as installation, configuration, management, lock down, security, patching and updating
- Experience with Active Directory (Domain trust, site and services, group policy), IIS, SQL Clustering, PowerShell, System Center Configuration Manager, and Intune.
- Knowledge and experience with traditional and hyperconverged infrastructure, RAID, NTFS, DFS, and Share Permissions
- Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis in a complex and distributed environment
- 6+ years of virtualization experience - VMWare preferred (ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Log Insight, vROPs).
- Familiar with Nessus, Carbon Black, Thycotic and security concepts such as OWASP and Mitre ATT&CK.
- SharePoint Online setup and configuration experience 3+ years
- Experience with Azure (M365, Exchange Online Azure AD, SAML, SSO, SharePoint, Teams, Power BI) and AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, Security Groups, IAM) cloud services.
- Experience with PowerShell scripting for maintenance and automation.
- Knowledge and experience with SMTP Gateways / Anti-Spam filters such as Mimecast, or similar.