Remote Position
[Remote] Systems Administrator
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Collegis Education partners with higher education institutions to provide technology, marketing, and enrollment solutions. The Systems Administrator manages, monitors, and maintains enterprise infrastructure and hosted applications to keep systems secure, reliable, highly available, and aligned with service-level expectations.
Responsibilities
- Monitoring, supporting, and troubleshooting incidents related to the enterprise infrastructure
- Apply patches to supported infrastructure to mitigate risk and enhance performance
- Ensure successful backups and recoverability of platforms
- Maintain security procedures and policies set forth by the engineers
- Leverage IT technologies for rapid deployment and efficient capacity/utilization management
- Performance tuning of operating systems and applications
- Design, plan, and execute change management activities during evenings, weekends or as required
- Assist systems engineers to develop technical standards and documentation, identify, and evaluate new products, and provides resolution for network problems
- Work with systems engineering staff on innovative technologies such as cloud and standard operating procedures
- Work seamlessly with third party vendors for troubleshooting and escalation of tickets
Skills
- Minimum 5-10 years of hands-on experience implementing and managing IT technologies
- Operations experience in 24x7x365 environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Must be able to thoroughly document implementations, modifications, and removals
- Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, or MIS degree or equivalent experience
- Experience supporting and managing Windows Servers in enterprise environments
- Strong experience supporting Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace cloud platforms and associated technologies such as Intune, SharePoint, Security etc
- Strong experience managing and administering Microsoft technologies such as AD, DNS, DHCP, CA
- Focused on commitment to enhance operational efficiencies through continued process improvement
- Desire to learn Linux Operating Systems with a goal to become a proficient Linux Administrator
- Basic understanding of scripting tools like PowerShell with the goal to acquire scripting proficiencies overtime
- Experience supporting and managing hypervisor platforms (VMware, Hyper-V)
- Familiarity with hyperconverged platforms (HPE, Dell, VxRail, Nutanix)
- Experience supporting and managing monitoring systems, and backup platforms a plus
- Experience with educational platforms, a plus
Benefits
- This role offers the flexibility of a fully remote environment. Candidates within a 60-mile radius of the Chicago, IL headquarters are expected to follow a hybrid schedule, working onsite 1-2 days per week.
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