Our client is seeking an experienced Systems Administrator.

This role is a full time direct hire permanent position.

The role will be 4 days on site in their Southlake location and 1 day work from home.

Position purpose

The System Administrator will provide advanced technical support and administration of Enterprise-class storage, security, network, communication, and virtualization environments as well as hold vendor specific certifications.

Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks

• Work closely with the management to gather input, diagnose root causes, and resolve problems
• Document processes to standardize and streamline end user experience.
• Proactively communicate with management throughout the problem resolution process.
• Interface with executives, engineers, and vendor technical support resources.
• Maintain hybrid server infrastructure and assist in root cause analysis of any system issues.
• Assist in developing a disaster recovery plan, assist in testing plan and update documentation as needed
• Implement and maintain various methods of identity, security, and authentication methods. (SSO, MFA, conditional access)
• Administer, integrate, and secure Office 365 to maintain a single uniform communication platform
• Recommend and justify any upgrades to infrastructure and systems
• Management, monitoring, and deployment of Vmware/Nutanix/Azure/storage assets
• Build, implement, and document new servers according to industry best practices
• Document data flows between internal and external environments.
• Participate in on-going certification and training opportunities.
• Provide mentoring and leadership to team members as appropriate.
• Maintaining, and providing appropriate access to SQL instances
• Windows server and Linux administration/troubleshooting
• Group policy administration/troubleshooting
• Developing and automating task using various scripting languages
• Manage McAfee Epo Security, products, policies, and deployment task
• Mimecast email security administration
• Modifying and maintaining public, and internal DNS records
• Managing delegated permissions
• Managing clustered resources
• Managing a load balanced Windows RDS environment
• Environment onboarding, and consolidation

Additional Qualifications

• Excellent People Skills
• Experience supporting networking, security, virtualization, storage software and hardware products, including:
• Experience supporting or troubleshooting in an IT environment (sever, application, or infrastructure).
• Solid understanding of Windows Server Products, Unix, and Linux operating systems.
• Proven ability to diagnose, resolve, and document technical support issues.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Positive, customer-centric approach.