Your role is to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the organization's data and information systems. Our ideal candidate has 7-10 years of systems administration experience and is comfortable supporting virtualization and security.
Responsibilities for the Sr System Administrator - Manage, maintain, and secure IT infrastructure, including hardware, software, virtualization, and network devices, ensuring proper configuration, updates, and patches for vulnerabilities and corporate compliance.
- Responsible for implementing and maintaining IT policies and security measures across the organization's IT systems.
- Respond to security threats and incidents in a timely manner to contain the threat, mitigate risks, and restore normal operations.
- Investigate security incidents and breaches, analyzing root causes, assessing the impact, and implementing corrective actions and remediation.
- Conduct regular security audits and assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of security controls, identify gaps and vulnerabilities, and recommend improvements.
- Support backup and recovery operations and implement appropriate processes for data protection, data recovery, and failover procedures.
- Provide documentation and technical support to IT staff for planning and implementing new or upgrades of IT systems and infrastructure.
- Responsible for asset management, patch management, storage planning, network performance and other duties as assigned.
Qualifications for the Sr System Administrator - Bachelor's degree in information technology, or equivalent experience required.
- Have 7-10 years of system administration experience.
- IT certifications in Microsoft, Security or other related fields are a plus.
- Experience with VMWare, Palo Alto Firewalls and Endpoint Security software.
- Strong knowledge of systems and networking software, hardware, and networking protocols.
- Strong knowledge of implementing and effectively developing helpdesk and IT operations best practices, including expert knowledge of security, storage, data protection, and data recovery processes.
$90-$100k, onsite 3 days per week