Associate IT Systems Administrator

About the role

The Associate IT Systems Administrator will manage and maintain the organization's technical infrastructure, ensuring reliability, performance, and security of IT systems across departments. Key responsibilities include deploying and configuring systems, troubleshooting issues, implementing upgrades and patches, and supporting project deployments.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the organization's technical infrastructure, ensuring reliability, performance, and security of IT systems across departments.
• Deploy and configure systems, troubleshoot technical issues, and implement system upgrades and patches.
• Collaborate with IT staff to support project deployment and build a robust technical environment.
• Provide technical expertise to resolve environmental issues and support the design, implementation, and maintenance of management systems that support the company's business applications.
• Maintain knowledge of environments that run business-wide applications and are accessed by multiple departments and users.
• Drive projects and timelines towards on-time completion, working with software and hardware vendors to deliver a stable infrastructure from purchasing to environment configuration, installation, and support.
• Support and promote food safety and quality program initiatives within the plant environment.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge in operating system, software, and application platforms relevant to the cooperative, such as Intel, UNIX, storage groups, portal, and web application platforms.
• Locally maintain and support all aspects of the corporate infrastructure environment for servers, peripherals, portals, web, and other applications.
• Establish, maintain, support, and upgrade associated architecture and environment.
• Provide technical expertise to resolve environmentally related issues and support the design, implementation, and maintenance of management systems that support the company's business applications.
• Maintain knowledge of environments that run business-wide applications and are accessed by multiple departments and users.
• Work with software and hardware vendors along with in-house users to deliver a stable infrastructure from purchasing to environment configuration, installation, and support.
• Support and promote food safety and quality program initiatives within the plant environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• At least 3 years of experience in large enterprise systems and databases environments.
• Knowledge in assigned systems and software.
• Strong problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in project management.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Understanding of Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and NTFS security, server hardware configurations, Windows LAN/WAN networking, IP address management, Azure cloud management, and UNIX-based server operating systems.
• Infrastructure as code, cloud migrations, and colocation management experience.

Skills

• Advanced knowledge in operating system, software, and application platforms relevant to the cooperative, such as Intel, UNIX, storage groups, portal, and web application platforms.
• Experience with large enterprise systems and databases environments.
• Knowledge in assigned systems and software.
• Strong problem-solving and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in project management.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Understanding of Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and NTFS security, server hardware configurations, Windows LAN/WAN networking, IP address management, Azure cloud management, and UNIX-based server operating systems.
• Infrastructure as code, cloud migrations, and colocation management experience.

Benefits

• Complete insurance package on Day-1 that includes health and wellness programs, health savings account, flexible spending account, life and accident insurance, employee assistance program, telehealth services, 1:1 health coaching, supportive benefits for all stages of life, 401(k) with up to 6% company matching, additional potential discretionary match at year-end, short-term incentive/performance bonuses, flexible scheduling options, vacation pay, holiday pay, career development and growth opportunities, tuition/education assistance programs, access to LinkedIn Learning, scholarship programs for children of employees, parental leave, Bright Horizons Family Solutions - backup care, tutoring, etc., adoption assistance, bereavement leave, up to $300 fitness reimbursement, up to $300 massage reimbursement, employee appreciation events, employee discounts, charitable giving.