Senior Systems Administrator

SR. SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR MOBILE, AL 12 MONTH CONTRACT

You will be responsible for the entire day-to-day administration of assigned platform, including troubleshooting and resolving problems as they arise. Also, you'll develop plans and processes designed to improve long-term capabilities of our system. You'll ensure our platform or system is operating correctly at all times without over-utilizing resources and is recognizing connections with other applicable machines on the network. You'll also develop new tools and procedures aimed at making platform maintenance more effective and efficient, identifying processes that can be automated.

Systems Administration: Configure and maintain assigned platform and/or system, which includes properly mapping and compiling the operating system and ensuring appropriate software is available to do so.

- Ensure platform or system is operating correctly at all times without over-utilizing resources and is recognizing connections with other applicable machines on the network.
- Regularly add and delete user logins and maintain user accounts; provide system security by checking files and directories for access, checking password changes, and restricting access by outside users on the platform or system.
- Configure system security via file permissions, host trusting, etc.
- Ensure that processes and procedures are in place to perform system backups according to departmental procedures.
- May configure toll free numbers into the platform or system, assigning the correct labels and skill groups.
- Schedule and implement system backups and data storage processes.
- Assign and monitor system resources such as disk space, processor time, and network bandwidth, ensuring a file system is cleaned when it fills.
- Balance work across all available operating systems in an effort to maintain system load.
- Assist in ordering, planning, and installing new or used hardware, as requested.
- Install all new versions of software and/or hardware on applicable units, coordinating upgrades with appropriate departmental staff.
- Perform proactive analysis of platform data (ie disk utilization, system load, etc.), to predict overloads or failures and correct these problems ahead of time.
- Ensure that the system is running correctly and that as much of the equipment is in service as possible; maintain all documentation related to systems administration.

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