Senior System Administrator Server

Description
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Senior System Administrator Server

This role focuses on Linux server administration.

Job Summary:

• Responsible for providing guidance and engineering solutions to fulfill business requirements using sound, proven, industry best practices and in accordance with architectural standards and engineering methodology. Develops and presents recommendations to Sr. Management. Analyzes and resolves complex issues related to server administration and operations, system software, storage management, backup methodology, virtualization, monitoring and management tools, business continuity, high availability solutions, provide hardware estimates, support hardware and related applications. Analyzes, coordinates, and implements infrastructure projects. Monitors system performance and capacity, and provides periodic system status reports to department management and provides proactive remediation. Analyzes reports to identify trends and opportunities for process and technology enhancements and coordinates system enhancements with architectural team. Provides cost and trend analysis and resolutions to critical Infrastructure problems. Acts as a technical escalation point for junior team members.

Responsibilities:

• Build and support server infrastructure and systems
• Responsible for maintaining the server and virtual machine environments
• Proactive server performance management
• Level 2 escalation point for server and operations teams
• Serves as liaison between operations and architecture teams
• Manage physical and virtual server environments using sounds process and procedures
• Service, incident and change request ticket management
• Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures
• Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization

Credentials:

• MCSE certification (Preferred)
• RHCSA Certification (Preferred)

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• H.S. Diploma/GED (Required)
• 10+ years System administration, VMWare and Storage
• 8+ years Server Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, storage

OR

• Bachelor of Arts or Science
• 6+ years System administration, VMWare and Storage
• 4+ years Server Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, storage

Skills & Abilities:

• Senior level Windows or Linux system admin
• Working knowledge of networking including routing, switching, firewalls.
• Working knowledge of common security devices and practices.
• DEVOPS experience X VMware or other Virtualization experience (Preferred)
• Storage and backup systems (Preferred)
• Healthcare experience (Preferred)
• Ability to manage databases

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.