Systems Administrator 5

Job Title: Engineering and IT Support - Systems Administrator 5

Location: Remote

Duration: 14 months+

Pay Range: $72/hr (W2)

Job ID: 371686

About BCforward

BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.

Job Description

The Systems Administrator is responsible for proving, designing, documenting, and scripting cloud infrastructure in the Azure Portal. Decisions and development should be handled in a non-disruptive manner and when necessary, using duplicate systems to test out new scenarios. Leverage an in-depth understanding of ARM/BiCep templates to make a scalable cloud development system.

Explain a typical day in the role.:

A sys admin spends their day improving and maintaining the cloud compute infrastructure to enable secure and efficient use of our compute resources. We focus heavily on automation, reliability, and security. Throughout the day, you'd collaborate with the rest of the team to troubleshoot and root cause existing reliability or connectivity issues, and work towards eliminating what we can and mitigating what we can't. In addition, existing and new infrastructure is documented both for our long-term understanding and explaining entry points

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

• Systems Administration in Azure, 5+ years


• Containers, 7+ years


• Network Security, 7+ years

Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to build and support automation infrastructure for a large Azure engineering organization, enabling scale, stability, and efficiency.

Key projects: This role will contribute to managing and scaling a large Azure VM environment, including day to day administration, image creation, automation, security, and platform optimization.

Ideal Background of the candidate:

Someone who is able to wrangle network security, containers, and VMs with determination, persistence, and the hubris to believe they can solve it.

How will contractor performance be measured?:

Reliability of Automation Scripts

Code Quality & Maintainability

Documentation & Knowledge Transfer

Meeting agreed upon deadlines

Responbilities::
* Provides wide ranging system administration in a multi-platform environment
* Responsible for general systems administration tasks including system configuration management, OS installations, security updates, urgent system patching
* Writes and implements scripts to automate tasks
* Ability to identify and troubleshoot hardware components that are problematic
* Performs daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, network disruption awareness and predefined key processes
* Reviews system logs, application logs and security logs

Minimum Qualifications & Skills:

Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
* 10+ years' experience required
* Proven work experience as a system or network administrator
* Azure portal administration via BiCep scripts and ARM templates

Preferred qualifications:
* Layered BiCep templates and scripts to easily manage multiple resource groups
* Experience with Kubernetes clusters and container management
* License server setup, deployment, and maintenance

Disqualifiers: Candidates without hands on Azure cloud administration experience or who are rigid in tooling, environment, or ways of working will not be eligible for the role.

Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would demonstrate strong Azure systems administration experience, a flexible and adaptable mindset, and experience building tools or automation (e.g., scripting) to improve efficiency and free up engineering capacity.

Why BCforward?

At BCforward, we believe in advancing lives and careers. When you join our team, you gain access to:

• Competitive compensation and benefits.


• Opportunities for growth with global clients.


• A supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people.


• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and projects.

About Our Commitment

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

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