System Administrator (Control Systems)

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2

Skills

Business Continuity Planning
ADFS
Active Directory
Auditing
Backup

Job Details

We are looking for System Administrator (Control Systems) for our client in Dallas, TX
Job Title: System Administrator (Control Systems)
Job Location: Dallas, TX
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
Essential Skills and Competencies:
  • Manage and administer Windows (2008, 2012, 2016, and 2019) and Linux (RHEL 7.X, 8.X and 9.X) servers.
  • Support and manage server virtualization, server provisioning, physical server maintenance, security compliance and the daily operation of the control system environments.
  • Maintain the physical server lifecycle including provisioning, maintenance, and decommissioning of the hardware.
  • Maintain the virtualized server environment via configuration, implementation, management and support activities.
  • Maintain the VMware VDI environment via configuration, implementation, management and support activities.
  • Maintain security baseline compliance via configuration, implementation, and remediation activities; report on compliance via routine compliance and audit tasks.
  • Monitor the server infrastructure environment health status, service performance, and utilization; report on trends and anomalies.
  • Implement and maintain continuous compliance to information security policies, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), and technical standards; report and provide remediation around non-compliances.
  • Apply regular security patches and software updates.
  • Provide tier-3 engineering support as well as business continuity support for control system infrastructure.
  • Collaborates with application, network, security and functional team that support Control System tools and applications.
  • Participates in on call Control System support rotation cycle.
Technical Skill Requirement:
  • Core experience in Windows, Active Directory, VMware vSphere and vRealize Suite, vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), Horizon View. administration, Nutanix, and Linux in a global and heterogeneous environment
  • Good Understanding of Virtualization technology (Hyper-V and VMware).
  • Good hands-on experience in diagnostics and troubleshooting of above-mentioned technologies and product suites.
  • Good understanding of highly available and disaster recovery environments.
  • Experience in performance tuning of VMware servers and Virtual sessions and management of server resources for both physical as well as between virtual machines.
  • Experience and expertise on Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, ADFS, Group Policies, and FTP & SFTP.
  • Ability to implement AD infrastructure.
  • Proficient in doing Recovery of AD Domain Controllers, DNS, WINS, DHCP servers.
  • In-Depth knowledge of Domain Controller replication configurations.
  • Good Exposure to Group Policies creation, their testing and implementation.
  • Should have good knowledge and troubleshooting skills on MS clusters and load balancing.
  • Strong in file and print server management; knowledge in Windows Security.
  • Excellent in PowerShell scripting and task automation work with measurable outputs and operational efficiencies.
  • Overall knowledge and understanding of data center environments, physical hardware placements, racking, cabling, etc.
  • Good at dealing with hardware and OEM vendors for support and troubleshooting purpose for hardware break fix and large platform/server upgrades/migration is required.
  • Good at dealing and coordinating with multiple teams and stakeholders within the support structure, in order to run daily operations smoothly.
  • Should have good working experience on RAID management and array controller.
  • Should have expertise in backup products and expertise in protocol suite and command line utilities.
  • Should have worked with OEM hardware (DELL/HP), and remote connectivity tools.
  • Proficiency in system fault tolerance design, business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
  • Prior experience working in Operations Technology or Control System environments is preferred.
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