Senior System Administrator (Utility Operations)
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Job Location:
White Plains, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 115000 - 144000
Posted on:
15 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Summary
The Senior System Administrator works within the Application Services Group to administer the Authoritys Software Portfolio by conducting activities to support existing applications and software infrastructure as well as implementing new applications and new software infrastructure.
This position focuses on supporting NYPAs Design & Drafting Application Suite: Autodesk Vault Bentley ProjectWise PTR Plus Maximo etc.
The Senior System Admin will use technical skills to implement support maintain and improve the software infrastructure and Project Management skills to realize these objectives in an environment where decisions are guided by policies procedures business plan functional strategies and business priorities with oversight from IT Management as well as from the IT Advisory committee.
To support existing applications the Senior System Administrator effectively manages the resolution of production issues adheres to all IT change management and incident reporting requirements and verifies that applications are functioning properly after any change. Additional support activities include installing upgrades and patches and when required analyze design code and implement changes to enhance functionality or to accommodate business process changes. When an application underlying software infrastructure or hardware has reached the end of its lifecycle the Senior System Administrator is tasked with identifying and implementing replacement solutions to meet business objectives.
As technology and the utility business changes so must the solutions implemented to ensure NYPA business needs are met. The impact of this role ensures the business runs more efficiently enables the improvement of business processes and provides more information for better management decision making.
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Responsibilities
- Define develop test analyze and maintain software products to help the business unit improve reliability and drive innovation.
- Contribute to all technology aspects of application development/ programming and support including reports interfaces database design patching upgrades and enhancements.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues across business and technical disciplines with a strong bias for action. Liaises with network administrators systems analysts database administrators external vendors and application developers to assist in resolving problems with software products/systems.
- Use best practices in software development methodologies while collaborating with other areas to understand requirements and drive continuous improvement.
- Responsible for supporting cloud solution resources both IaaS and PaaS. Architecting and designing large scale enterprise infrastructure and integration patterns for cloud environments.
- Provides guidance and mentoring to less- experienced staff members.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Advanced knowledge in application development lifecycle and support including large scale software systems implementations.
- Software engineering experience.
- Experience in implementation and support of Enterprise Applications/systems.
- Knowledge application security configurations.
- Must demonstrate the ability to view tasks logically break them down into essential requirements and generate a solution applying accepted standards.
- Experience with configuration change management DevSecOps and testing activities.
- Perform troubleshooting root cause analysis and resolutions for production issues.
- Ability to deploy solutions to the operational production environment with standard practices established by the organization.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including ability to simplify complex concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.
Education Experience and Certifications
- Bachelors degree required in Computer Science or related field.
- Minimum 4 years of related work experience preferred.
- Cloud certifications preferred.
- Microsoft /AWS/SAP/PMO technology-specific certification based on specialization preferred.
Physical Requirements
Overnight travel to the various NYPA locations within New York State.
The New York Power Authority is committed to providing fair competitive and market-informed compensation. The estimated salary range for this position is: $115000 - $144000. The salary offered will be determined based on the successful candidates relevant experience knowledge skills and abilities.
The New York Power Authority and Canal Corporation believes that diversity equity and inclusion drive our success and we encourage women people of color LGBTQIA individuals people with disabilities members of ethnic minorities foreign-born residents and veterans to apply. As an equal opportunity employer NYPA/Canals is committed to building inclusive innovative work environments with employees who reflect communities across New York and enthusiastically serve them. We proudly celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race/color creed/religion national origin citizenship or immigration status age disability military status gender/sex sexual orientation gender identity/expression pregnancy and related conditions familial/marital status domestic violence victim status predisposing genetic characteristics arrest/criminal conviction record or any other category protected by law.
NYPA/Canals will also provide reasonable accommodations during the hiring process related to candidates disabilities pregnancy-related conditions religious observances/practices and/or domestic violence concerns. To request an accommodation please email.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Active Directory
- VMware
- Computer Networking
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Solaris
- Windows
- Linux
- SAN
- System Administration
- Operating Systems
- Dns
- CentOS
