Job Description:
Short Description: 16 years of experience. Responsible for effective provisioning installation/configuration operation and maintenance of computer hardware software and related infrastructure.
Complete Description:
The Master System Administrator is responsible for the effective provisioning installation and maintenance of computer hardware software and related infrastructure essential for emergency response operations within the 911 center. This position involves engineering configuring and managing server systems and networks to ensure high availability and reliability of services. The Master System Administrator will provide operational support troubleshoot issues and implement security measures to protect sensitive data. The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills a thorough understanding of systems administration and experience in a high-pressure environment ensuring that all systems function optimally to support emergency services.
CONTRACT JOB DESCRIPTION
Responsibilities:
1. Responsible for effective provisioning installation/configuration operation and maintenance of computer hardware software and related infrastructure.
2. Participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.
3. Ensures that system hardware operating systems software systems and related procedures adhere to District policies standards and guidelines.
4. Systems administration engineering and provisioning operations and support maintenance and research and development to ensure continual innovation.
5. Installs new/rebuild existing servers and configures hardware peripherals services settings directories storage in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
6. Performs daily system monitoring verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware server resources systems and key processes.
7. Reviews system and application logs.
8. Verifies completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
9. Performs regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
10. 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.
11. Performs regular file archival and purging as necessary.
12. Creates changes and deletes user accounts per request.
13. Provides Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies.
14. Investigates and troubleshoots issues.
15. Diagnoses and recovers hardware or software failures.
16. Coordinates and communicates with impacted constituencies.
17. Applies operating system (OS) patches and upgrades on a regular basis
18. Upgrades administrative tools and utilities.
19. Configures/adds new services as necessary.
20. Upgrades and configures system software that supports infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.
21. Maintains operational configuration or other procedures.
22. Performs periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
23. Performs ongoing performance tuning hardware upgrades and resource optimization as required.
24. Configures central processing unit (CPU) memory and disk partitions as required.
25. Maintains data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:
Bachelors degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience
Skills Matrix:
16 yrs. installing and configuring system hardware/software in an enterprise environment. Required 16 Years
16 yrs. installing operating system (OS) patches and upgrades. Required 16 Years
16 yrs. monitoring networks to ensure security and availability. Required 16 Years
16 yrs. performing daily backups. Required 16 Years
16 yrs. troubleshooting server and other hardware issues
Required 16 Years
Bachelors degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience. Required