System Administrator – Engineering and Provisioning

The System Administrator (SA) is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.

• Engineering of SA-related solutions for various project and operational needs.
• Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Install and configure systems
• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
• Contribute to and maintain system security standards.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.

Required Skills

• Bachelor (4-year) degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science.
• Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Unix and Microsoft.
• Four to six years system administration experience.
• Familiarity with Cobbler, Puppet, Ganglia, DNS, NTP, NFS, OpenLDAP, OpenVPN, NVC, bugzilla.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.