Systems Administrator, Advanced

Responsibilities

• Cook up server configuration and administration with multiple parties (SDC, FDOT, and contractors).
• Make recommendations for future server and software upgrades.
• Monitor systems and applications to ensure security, availability, and performance.
• Evaluate network performance issues, including availability, utilization, throughput, goodput, and latency; plan and execute the selection, installation, configuration, and testing of equipment; define network policies and procedures; establish connections and firewalls.
• Maintain network and systems performance by performing systems monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshoot systems and application problems; escalate problems to vendor.
• Build and manage relationships in a matrixed environment.
• Find opportunities to refactor solutions to obtain better performance, cost, and efficiency.
• Create and manage Azure DevOps projects, git repositories, and pipelines.
• Oversight and configuration of Azure DevOps organizational settings.
• Recommend and assist with the building and hosting of complex application solutions.
• Understand, deploy, and manage AWS, Microsoft Azure, and/or other cloud services.
• Support other IT staff, including developers.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Professional experience in information systems engineering or a related field of at least 5 years.
• Professional experience in systems operations, support, maintenance, and administration of infrastructure/network environments of at least 3 years.
• Professional experience supporting middleware such as API Management, IT Service Automation tools, and batch job services of at least 2 years.
• Professional experience with Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, and 2022, IIS Administration, network communications (TCP/IP and DNS, Samba/CIFS file sharing, and NTFS permissions), and strong professional experience in AWS cloud systems.
• Strong professional experience in Microsoft Azure and other cloud systems.
• Professional experience in the administration of Microsoft software.