Job Title : Network/System Admin
Location: Remote
Duration: / Term: 6+ months / Contract
Job Description:
Experience Desired: 10+ Years.
Qualifications:
- Networking (Switching, Routing, Firewall)
- Network management & Troubleshooting: Administer and optimize network performance and capabilities in a Cisco infrastructure, including switching, routing, firewalls
- System Admin
Responsibilities:
- Infrastructure Administration: Involves deploying, and maintaining server infrastructure while optimizing virtualization technologies, primarily VMWare. This includes executing server builds, encompassing operating system and application installation and configuration.
- Network Management and Troubleshooting: Administer and optimize network performance and capabilities in a Cisco infrastructure, including switching, routing, firewalls and DNS.
- Load Balancing: Experience with F5 web application firewalls, including setting up new sites and configuring iRules.
- Participate in infrastructure projects, ensuring on-time completion and adherence to designs.
- Perform capacity planning to anticipate resource needs and ensure infrastructure scalability to accommodate future growth.
- System Monitoring: Assist with proactive system monitoring tools, monitoring system performance, capacity, and availability, and promptly responding to alerts to resolve issues effectively.
- Web Server administration: Experience with web server administration including installations, configuration, optimizing performance, administering certificates,
- System Services Administration: Administers SFTP servers, terminal services, Active Directory, and Group Policy, ensuring compliance with organizational standards.
- Azure ADFS: Responsible for the administration of Azure Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), configuration and management of SSO for cloud-based applications and troubleshooting ADFS-related issues.
- Terminal Services Administration: Administers terminal servers, managing user access, application deployment, and performance tuning, while monitoring and resolving terminal services issues.
- Active Directory Administration: Manages and maintains Active Directory infrastructure, including user and group management, domain services, and security policies, troubleshooting Active Directory-related issues, and implementing security best practices.
- Patch Management: Experience with patch automation of windows and third-party patches. SCCM experience preferred.
- Windows scripting: Experience writing and running PowerShell scripts to automate tasks including Employee on-boarding, off-boarding, email management and server management.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Experience with PowerShell scripting.
- In-depth knowledge of VMWare virtualization technologies.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
- Proficiency in system monitoring tools, such as What's Up Gold (WUG) or similar.
- Experience with web server administration.
- Experience with Azure ADFS and SFTP administration.
- Proficiency in Terminal Services administration
- Expertise in Active Directory administration, including group management and security policies.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
- Ability independently to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.