System Administrator Datacenter (Hybrid Chicago Metro Area)

Veterans Engineering seeking a Systems Administrator to assist in maintaining a platform of servers and supporting infrastructure environments. Specifically, the Systems Administrator (SA) will provide the following technical support:

Operating System Maintenance

• Collaborate with team to apply monthly OS patches for Windows (2K16-2K22) and Linux (RHEL 8/9) servers utilizing HCL BigFix Endpoint patch Management.
• Evaluate procedures for a timely and effective remediation of vulnerabilities to improve the overall security of networks utilizing tools such as Nessus & HCL BigFix.

Database Operations

• Monitor the successful completion of daily SQL automated database jobs, including database backups, index rebuilds, and other scheduled jobs utilizing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Hardware/software problem resolution

• Keep to a strict 5-minute service level agreement for the client's servers and applications ensuring a 99.99% uptime of the platform utilizing Zenoss Service Dynamics monitoring tool.
• Monitor communications systems continuously to include phone calls and VA email during business hours.
• Participation in a team on-call rotation.
• Routine and contingency services
• Perform hardware, operating system, and software installation, reinstallation, and configuration management for routine and contingency purposes (e.g., disaster site recovery operations).

Qualifications

Data center operations

• Ability to work in a data center environment and lift/move equipment as needed.
• Familiar with working on servers, storage, & networking equipment in a production environment.
• Comfortable with cabling/troubleshooting Ethernet and Fiber-Chanel connectivity

Virtualization (VMware)

• Ability to create baselines to manage the lifecycle of ESXi hosts & VM hardware/tool versioning.
• Ability to migrate workloads to and from various vSphere instances as needed.
• Familiar with Powerlink to automate routine vSphere tasks & queries.
• Able to leverage VMware Aria Operations (formally vRops for performance troubleshooting, automation, & capacity planning along with appliance lifecycle as needed.
• Proficient in VM deployment and configuration

Backup / Recovery (Cohesity)

• Creation & modification of protection jobs along with restoration of VMs as needed.
• Lifecyle management of Cohesity clusters and nodes.
• Troubleshooting of any cluster/node specific errors.

Storage (NetApp E-Series)

• Ability to create and grow volumes.
• Creation and modification of hosts groups
• Manage firmware lifecycle upgrades of controllers and disks.
• Familiar with the NetApp SANtricity UI

Compute (Dell)

• Familiar with Dell Open Manage Enterprise (OME.)
• Management of Dell PowerEdge compute firmware lifecycle

Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, Engineering, or Technology and 5 years' experience in a professional work environment or 13 years of experience in a professional work environment in lieu of education

Compensation details: 00 Yearly Salary

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