Systems Administrator

Overview

Omni Hotels and Resorts creates genuine, authentic guest experiences at 60 distinctive luxury hotels and resorts in leading business gateways and leisure destinations across North America. Omni Hotels is known for its exemplary culture, authenticity to the markets in which we operate, innovation and exceptional service. Our commitment to career development has created tenure and loyalty that enables us to perpetuate our family atmosphere.

Job Description

The Systems Administrator is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values, enabling associates and vendors.

This individual is accountable for the systems that support Omni Hotels & Resorts corporate infrastructure as well as our properties across North America. Responsibilities on these systems include engineering and provisioning, operations and support, maintenance and research and development to ensure continual innovation.

This position is based in Dallas, TX, in office at the Omni Hotels Corporate Office.

Responsibilities

Administration and Provisioning

• Administration of related solutions for various projects and operational needs.
• Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with best practices and project/operational requirements.
• Document and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
• Contribute to and maintain system standards.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.
• Install and maintain current operating system, database, software versions and patches on all Linux based environments
• Install and maintain Apache web server configurations, including all packages needed by in-house software
• Perform performance monitoring and optimization of servers
• Proficient in installation and maintenance of MySQL and MongoDB
• Support users of Linux server platforms as required
• Support a 24/7/365 environment, including on-call needs
• Ability to work at the command line - set up cron jobs efficiently using config files and without using GUI tools for management

Operations and Support

• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Work along with the Security team to identify any possible vulnerabilities and remediate those systems.
• Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media.
• Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary.
• Utilize our Ticketing system to provide support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
• Support our property management and reservation system infrastructure for maximum uptime and reliability.

Maintenance

• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.
• Maintain operation, configuration, or other procedures.
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
• Responsibilities will require being on call and at times working off hours based on critical system outages, upgrades, etc.
• Maintain documentation of configurations, changes, and SOPs

Qualifications

• Bachelor (4-year) degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science.
• Linux Server experience is a must
• Experience with administering cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with scripting and automation tools (e.g., PowerShell, Bash) is a plus.
• Dell Server and storage infrastructure preferred (PowerEdge, Powervault, vxRail)
• NetApp SAN experience
• NGAV, EDR, WAF, etc. Security tool experience preferred
• Office 365 Administration and Exchange Server
• Microsoft SQL Server 2019
• Microsoft Server 2012 R2 and above experience required
• Microsoft Terminal Services experience
• Active Directory administration (FSMO roles, group policy, etc.)
• DNS, WINS, DHCP, IIS, SSL, etc
• Managed File Transfer software experience required
• Virtualization (VMware, Horizon VDI, vSAN, DRS) is required
• Ability to troubleshoot PBX/Telephony/VOIP hardware and software
• Windows scripting (VBScript, PowerShell, etc.)
• TCP/IP networking (switch/router configuration, VLANs, subnetting, etc.)
• Four years or more systems administration or engineering experience
• Expert experience with VMware 6.5 or higher preferred

Omni Hotels & Resorts is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer. The EEO is the Law poster and its supplement are available using the following links: EEOC is the Law Poster and the following link is the OFCCP's Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination policy statement

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