Senior Systems Administrator

Temp-to-hire, full-time onsite role in Indianapolis, IN (46204). Shift: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM. Estimated duration: 7 months; hourly rate: $58.00.

About the Role

The Senior Systems Administrator is responsible for the ongoing operations and maintenance of an IaaS hosted environment leveraging both enterprise-level Linux and Microsoft Windows Server operating systems, ensuring server and application availability. This role requires critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills with the ability to develop and document processes based on best practices for operating system security, configuration management, and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support the computing and VMware environment, troubleshooting virtual machines, Oracle Linux, and Windows Server operating systems.
• Work under demanding deadlines, operating independently to resolve complex problems.
• Install, maintain, and administer Windows Server Active Directory Services infrastructure.
• Maintain Salesforce CRM accounts.
• Perform platform support including monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and maintaining overall service and platform health to maximize system uptime.
• Maintain and administer DHCP, DNS, IIS, sFTP, and other network services.
• Act as a member of an integrated operations team through the management and support of an infrastructure cloud environment.
• Serve as liaison between infrastructure and Enterprise Architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-based architectures.
• Administer server hardware and software inventories and documentation.
• Participate in database designs and implementation.
• Ensure security procedures are implemented and enforced.
• Manage Microsoft server security configuration and patching.
• Assist in provisioning and administering user access credentials and folder permissions.
• Support web portals, middleware, infrastructure applications, APIs, network, and monitoring needs.
• Facilitate deployment of application code enhancements to environments.
• Present ongoing recommendations for operational improvements of applications.
• Provide support for the restoration of services, including investigation of outage cause and business impact.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve daily system backup process failures.
• Respond to server resource monitoring alerts.
• Monitor and work on customer support tickets and requests.
• Serve as an on-call support person as part of a rotation within an application support team; on-call duties cover regular business hours, nights, and weekends on a scheduled basis.
• Install, configure, and maintain CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitLab to automate deployment processes.
• Manage containerization using Docker, including image creation, orchestration, and deployment.
• Implement and manage analytics tools like Looker to support data visualization and reporting needs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience, or relevant certifications.
• 5–10 years of server configuration management, administration, and production support experience.
• 5–10 years of architecture and hands-on technical experience with VMware’s vSphere Platform, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCloud Director, and VMware migration tools/techniques.
• 5–10 years of detailed knowledge of Oracle Linux and Windows Server operating systems.
• 5–10 years of experience working within an ITIL framework.
• 5–10 years of experience within Microsoft Active Directory Services.
• 5–10 years of experience with networking and security principles.
• Knowledge of Morpheus VM Essentials.
• Basic understanding of migrating existing applications and services to cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, OCI, Google Cloud).
• Intermediate proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and integration tasks, as well as working knowledge of SQL scripting.
• Knowledge and understanding of NAS and SAN concepts and connectivity.
• Experience working and managing relationships with cloud/service providers.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Must be local to the Indianapolis, IN area; hybrid schedule once training is complete.

Preferred Qualifications

• Linux certifications.

Skills

• Configuration Management
• Linux
• Oracle
• System Administration
• VMware