Server Support Technician

Server Support Technician (CG34609)

Portland, OR, 97210

10+ Month Contract

Contract terms: W2

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS-- MUST HAVE SERVER EXP 
1.) Previous experience handling external vendors, server problem resolution, escalation and after-hours support. 
2).Proven experience reporting and managing professional inquiries by business partners and vendors. 
3.) Experience consulting for storage options, project management and business partners to determine server and storage requirements and recommend solutions in accordance with standard system procedures. 
4.) Experience with Active Directory, HP Servers, Windows Server 2003, 2008
5.) Experience with Networking principles. 
6) Excellent multi-tasking abilities to handle multiple projects and operations 
7.) Working experience with large complex infrastructures
8.) Will require evening/weekend work and some travel within local server area at employees own expense. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 
-Extensive Windows 2003/2008 Server Administrations working with high ticket volumes 
-OS Builds, Print Queues, and maintain high performance distributed systems 24/7 
-Be fanatical about performance and performance monitoring 
-Extensive experience with distributed computing, performance analysis, network -protocols, data storage subsystems, and backup. 
-EMC SAN, NETAPP NAS, EMC NAS, Data Domain/Netbackup, and TSM. 
-Some working experience with Remedy, ITIL, MS Project, Visio 
-MCITP Certification, VM WARE, Red Hat, Linux, MSSQL, Oracle 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 
1.) Implement and support all Server related requests on time and within budget mainly through Remedy incident and service request tickets. 
2.) Coordinate and facilitate moves, add changes, for Servers under general supervision of the team lead or IT Manager 
3.) Provide administrative support (eg writing documentation for tickets, updating and maintaining logs, etc.) 
4.) Responsible for all internal and vendor server inventory records of equipment and consistency of installation standards. 
5.) Performs all server asset management functions including all of the elements of monitoring and tracking of hardware and software assets 
6.) Measure, report, and monitor metrics associated with the delivery of services (eg against established Service Level Agreements) 
7.) Oversee vendors to ensure they properly handle the daily operations of Servers 
8.) Adhere and comply with Daily Ticket Metrics/MTTR 
9.) Need to be flexible with work hours, on call, etc 
10.) Responsible for maintaining ~400 Servers in the region 24/7 

Experience level- 4 to 6 years, must have min 2+ years with Windows 2003 and 2008.

Degree not required, must have min GED/HS diploma.

Resources may be lifting equipment (med screen required) they may be in medical environment (health screen required)

Consultant may be driving - DMV check required andresource needs their own vehicle. Mileage is not reimbursed. 
Hours FLEXIBLE-- will include nights and some weekends 
Softskills: ability to multitask, customer service skills and must be able to adjust to changing priorities