Sr Systems Administrator Train Control Information Systems

Key Accountabilities (Essential Job Duties)

• Administer and maintain systems responsible for dispatching and train control, ensuring continuous availability and high reliability.
• Develop, refine, implement, and maintain technical and operational documentation, (policies, procedures, and standards), to meet compliance responsibilities.
• Document all systems for disaster recovery, integrity and repeatability, and cross training purposes.
• Prepare change requests and make modifications to systems consistent with corporate change management processes.
• Ensure system security, make vulnerability assessments, and take necessary steps to mitigate risks.
• Monitor systems, and network / messaging traffic logs for unusual activity, and make recommendations or act based on those findings.
• Administer testing and evaluation of system patches and updates in test environments prior to deployment on production computers and equipment.
• Manage direct subordinate personnel charged with similar duties.
• Lead groups in gathering information for performing root cause analysis of system failures.
• Participate in designing system infrastructure, solutions and applications.
• Work with teams to resolve issues that are uncovered or occur during day-to-day operations.
• Interface regularly with staff from other departments, communicating system issues and responding to requests for assistance and information.
• Be on call to manage and/or troubleshoot system problems to address above responsibilities.

Additional Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Experience with Enterprise Infrastructure in a railroad environment, specifically related to signals, communications and train control systems, PTC.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux or other *nix certification.
• Hand On experience diagnosing network related issues.
• Ability to navigate, debug, and modify programs in high level programming languages.
• Experience with administering database systems (e.g. SQL, Oracle).
• Experience with inter-application messaging systems (e.g. JBOS, MQ).

Working Conditions (including Physical Demands)

• Must be available to respond to emergency calls 24/7.

Pay

Salary Range: $104,319.50-$123,077.00

Schedule

Not specified

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package designed with your wellbeing in mind, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness coverage, home, auto, and pet insurance, and a 401(k)-retirement plan with a company match.