Administrator, Systems Job Description
Administrator, systems
provides leadership in Windows and Desktop administration through managing/leading special projects, mentoring and training other administrators, application of new concepts/practices/technologies/procedures, and remaining highly adaptable.
Administrator, Systems Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective administrator, systems job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included administrator, systems job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Involvement in I.T
Day-to-day operation and administration of servers, applications, and network equipment
Troubleshooting of network problems
Coordinating with outsourced providers
Resolving escalated technical requests
Tier 3 issue resolution
Provide support for other offices, as required by the needs of IT
Ability to support a 24x7x365 operation, including participation in monthly maintenance patching and updating activities
Supporting systems in a Validated and Qualified environment
Collaborating with other IT personnel on departmental projects
Administrator, Systems Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Administrator, Systems
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: II, IAT, VCP, MCITP, OS, CISSP, MCSA, DCA, ITIL, DODI
Education for Administrator, Systems
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the administrator, systems job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Technical, Education, Administration, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Information Technology, Management, Design, Business
Skills for Administrator, Systems
Desired skills for administrator, systems include:
Relevant technologies as assigned
Principles
Information Assurance
Configuration and debugging techniques
Methods
Multiple desktop programs
Practices and procedures
Relevant concepts
Best practices
Customer business applications
Desired experience for administrator, systems includes:
Successful history of supporting general LAN/WAN IP network systems
Preferred IT support experience for digital satellite transmission solutions
Preferred network administration experience
Must be able to provide written status reports to manager
Must be able to work flexible hours, including overtime, if necessary
Strong preference given to candidates who have experience with ATG or other large E-Commerce platforms
Administrator, Systems Examples
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Administrator, Systems Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of administrator, systems. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for administrator, systems
- Setup, configure, monitor and maintain user computers, printers, copiers, scanners, plotters
- Asset tracking and records Maintenance - Keep track of the asset additions, movements, working condition, decommissioning and maintain IT asset register, software inventory
- Monitor the current requirements and estimate the future needs and produce capacity expansion/reduction reports for servers, storage, network and peripherals
- Participate in procurement of hardware/software -Provide technical support to Procurement team for the in a timely manner to assist the procurement process for MIS items
- Do data (file/database/applications) and system configuration backups and implement disaster recovery measures
- Maintain application security, event investigations and compliance enforcement
- Perform hardware setup, software installation/configuration, and the day-to-day administration of Microsoft operating systems and related services (e.g., AD, IIS, WSUS, ), and for Linux servers and services
- Document and implement FISMA government compliance
- Works with the Head of Technical Services to prepare libraries’ short and long range technology plans and budgets
- Responsible for evaluation, review, and ordering of computer hardware and software purchases for the libraries
Qualifications for administrator, systems
- Conduct feasibility study and cost benefit analysis on proposes system additions
- Experience in administering production MySQL databases
- Experience with multiple cloud technologies, Amazon AWS, Google Compute
- Advanced knowledge of Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Java, MySQL
- Experience with F5 LTM a plus
- A minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience in a fast paced IT environment
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Administrator, Systems Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for an administrator, systems. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for administrator, systems
- Acclimate freelance personell and technical staff to facility usage guidelines and practices
- Oversee equipment inventory, maintenance and check in/out, scheduling and equipment release
- Work with Studio manager to provide, "Boots on the Ground" to daily operations, efficiencies, feedback
- Provide support to issues escalated from the Client Engagement Support team and interface with development teams to hand-off application issues
- Participate in on-call support for system alerts and escalated off-hours issues
- Monitor systems and application health
- Provide fault reproduction, troubleshooting, system characterization, and root cause analysis of product issues/bugs to Product Development
- Create and peer review scripts for automating common tasks and processes
- Represent the Technical Operations department in various product meetings with both internal teams external customers
- Fulfill technical service requests from internal and external customers
Qualifications for administrator, systems
- High school diploma or GED and four years experience will also qualify
- You have administrated server on a day-to-day basis (Windows Server, CentOS)
- You are adept at troubleshooting hardware issues (Proliant, UCS)
- You have good understanding of storage and network technologies (storage (NetApp, EMC, Cisco)
- Strong interpersonal skills, including customer relationship skills in conjunction with the ability to work well in a team environment to work independently and assume responsibility
- Experience with VMWare ESX, vSphere software, Linux/Unix firewall technologies
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for an administrator, systems. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for administrator, systems
- Other duties may include setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space, providing backup
- Provide requested builds for dev through to production
- Work with Sales and Marketing to keep the database clean ensuring ideal prospect and accurate customer data
- Work with business owners to develop test case scenarios for functional enhancements
- Manage, build, and generate operations metrics to make strategic business decisions
- Install and configure SQL servers, perform periodic patches and maintain at the correct service pack, ensuring the security posture is maintained
- Provide expert-level support in server administration and configuration for server hardware and operating at Secret levels
- Install and support Windows Servers 2008 and 2012 or others as required
- Demonstrate ability to provide authentication Services
- Demonstrate ability to insure availability of Messaging services on Allied-Secret and US-Secret Communications networks
Qualifications for administrator, systems
- Bachelor's degree or Diploma in IT
- Cisco certified and/or VMWare certified and/or Microsoft certified or more years' relevant experience
- Considerable experience in systems administration functions with a focus on Microsoft Active Directory
- Blade chassis management
- Administration of VMware environments
- Practical experience with SAN infrastructure management
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Administrator, Systems Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for an administrator, systems. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for administrator, systems
- Maintain the configuration of systems and network components, enterprise wide
- Analyze project requirements and pertinent technical information, develop recommendations including alternate solutions and where appropriate develop implementation plans and install and configure the solution
- Develop procedures and automated solutions to support the customer service operation
- Responsible for installing and administrating Unix/Linux operating configurations for servers and desktops and also serve as technical referent on engineering review boards considering all additions to or changes to the operating environment
- Install and maintain the UNIX or LINUX operating configurations on all organization servers and desktops
- Troubleshoot problems that may involve applications and the network
- Provide technical support to applications and utility developers on requirements for integration into the operating environment
- Provide guidance and technical assistance as needed
- Maintain and update documentation on the operating systems' configuration
- Participate in various design reviews
Qualifications for administrator, systems
- Theory and operations of backup systems
- Entry level knowledge of systems monitoring, and long term trending of SLA, performance, and sizing metrics
- Experience with Active Directory and basic IA monitoring tools
- AA or AS degree or 2 years of experience with IT
- Experience with DoD CM tools preferred, including CMPro
- Possession of excellent Java and C++ programming or SQL or Oracle database skills preferred
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of administrator, systems. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for administrator, systems
- Proactively monitor performance and availability of applications, operating system platforms, and infrastructure to troubleshoot root cause and provide issue resolution to minimize degradation and outages to hospitals and clinics in the delivery of patient care
- Perform proactive troubleshooting activities utilizing CHS standard monitoring tools to proactively detect and classify service impacting events of targeted applications, operating systems, systems and network devices for the purpose of preventing potential outages of these systems in compliance with defined Service Level Agreements
- Troubleshooting and experience with Telecommunication carriers and their technologies to configure and manage monitoring and alerting capabilities on point to point circuits
- Experience with proactive monitoring and alerting on VPN connectivity and troubleshooting service degradation or connectivity issues with third party vendors and/or IT groups
- Monitor hospital and clinic applications and infrastructure to meet or exceed defined Service Level Agreements
- Record and measure key statistics on support to produce routine reports by shift as a measure on the current state of hospital, clinic and data center operations
- Proactively monitor consoles for alerts
- Perform initial troubleshooting on alerts to coordinate with internal support teams for ticket routing to engagement or contact on-call resources during afterhours
- Correlate application and network data to perform troubleshooting steps for performance or availability related issues on applications, network or operating system platforms
- Utilize log files from disparate sources to aid in troubleshooting network connectivity, service delivery or application connectivity
Qualifications for administrator, systems
- Preferred – Oracle, MS SQL
- Helpful – MySQL, Postgres, other open source
- Preferred - Java (Jboss, WebSphere, Apache, Tomcat)
- Helpful – Security, and configuration tools
- Preferred – Perl, Windows batch Unix Shell
- Helpful – Python, Java, BROC