System Administrator II, Virtualization

About the role

The System Administrator II, Virtualization maintains the integrity of the virtualization environment. They assist in installing, configuring, and maintaining virtualized workstations and servers in support of processing requirements. They provide extensive operations support, file restorations, backups, disk space management, and problem resolution for operating systems platforms.

Responsibilities

• Maintains the server and desktop compute infrastructures, including blade server environments, hyperconverged environments, storage, and virtualization layers
• Develops and implements business continuity practices for virtualization management
• Installs, configures, tests, and implements infrastructure software and hardware
• Monitors use and availability of resources, generating reports and analysis as requested
• Troubleshoots virtualization related issues and takes appropriate actions
• Assists users in identifying difficult technical problems and devising solutions
• Analyzes systems requirements and performance of hardware and software systems and helps to optimize the overall use of these systems
• May commonly be part of a project team and assist on projects
• May be project leader on small or task specific projects
• Maintains tasks, projects, and activities in the IT system of Record (S-NOW)
• Understands and follows LSCS standard operating procedures
• Responsible for other reasonable, related duties as assigned

Requirements

Requires knowledge of job responsibilities, procedures, practices; training or basic knowledge in a professional field; requires general understanding of purpose and operations outside own work unit. Must possess a working knowledge of server hardware technologies, including converged, hyperconverged, and composable infrastructure.

Skills

• Working knowledge of server hardware technologies, including converged, hyperconverged, and composable infrastructure
• Ability to train in certain procedures or equipment may be required
• Knowledge of duties and activities covered by specific instructions, standard practices and established procedures that require some interpretation
• Ability to manage complex problems that must be broken down into manageable pieces, ability to see relationships between problem components and prioritize them
• Ability to collaborate with team; shares relevant information with those who may be affected by decisions
• Participates in formal or informal group problem solving for immediate issues
• May develop presentations to educate internal or external audiences
• Ability to translate technical or procedural information into specifications or action plans
• Ability to convey technical or complex information to others in non-technical terms

Qualifications

• Associate degree or higher and at least 4 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience working with VMware virtualization technologies or another equivalent enterprise virtualization stack
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Entry-level certification(s) in areas of responsibility (VMware Certified Technical Associate, Dell Certified Associate, Information and Storage Management, Cohesity Certified Data Protection Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, etc.)
• Intermediate certification(s) in areas of responsibility (VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization, VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization, Cohesity Certified Data Protection Professional, Pure Storage Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with converged, hyperconverged, or composable compute hardware infrastructure in an enterprise datacenter environment
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-grade backup and recovery systems (Veeam, Cohesity, Rubrik, or similar)
• Hands-on experience with administering cloud infrastructure (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or similar)
• Hands-on experience with managing and maintaining Fibre Channel Storage and/or Network-Attached Storage systems
• Hands-on experience in physical datacenter management, including power, UPS, and cooling systems
• Experience or knowledge of network virtualization technologies such as VMware NSX or similar

Benefits

Lone Star College provides a full comprehensive and competitive benefits package, including a generous number of paid holidays and vacation days, wellness programs, tuition waiver, professional development opportunities, and more.