16+ Yrs System Administrator - Washington, DC (Onsite)

Role : System Administrator

Client : DC Government

Location : Washington, DC (Onsite)

Job Description:

Responsibilites:
Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of computer hardware, software, and related infrastructure.

• Participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.
• Ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to District policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Systems administration engineering and provisioning, operations and support, maintenance and research and development to ensure continual innovation.
• Installs new/rebuild existing servers and configures hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Performs daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes.
• Reviews system and application logs.
• Verifies completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Performs regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
• Performs daily backup operations, which include ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media; creating recovery tapes or disks; and recycling media and sending off-site, as necessary.
• Performs regular file archival and purging, as necessary.
• Creates, changes, and deletes user accounts per request.
• Provides Tier III/other support, per request from various constituencies.
• Investigates and troubleshoots issues.
• Diagnoses and recovers hardware or software failures.
• Coordinates and communicates with impacted constituencies.
• Applies operating system (OS) patches and upgrades on a regular basis
• Upgrades administrative tools and utilities.
• Configures/adds new services, as necessary.
• Upgrades and configures system software that supports infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.
• Maintains operational, configuration, or other procedures.
• Performs periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Performs ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization, as required.
• Configures central processing unit (CPU), memory, and disk partitions, as required.
• Maintains data center environmental and monitoring equipment.

Experience:

• 16+ yrs. performing daily backups: 10 years (Preferred)
• 16+ yrs. troubleshooting server and other hardware issues: 10 years (Preferred)
• Bachelor s degree in IT or related field or equivalent: 4 years (Preferred)
• 16+ yrs. installing and configuring system H/W&S/W: 10 years (Preferred)
• 16+ yrs. install OS system (OS) patches and upgrades: 10 years (Preferred)
• 16+ yrs. monitor N/W to ensure security and availability: 10 years (Preferred)