Senior Administrator, Microsoft

Company: Catholic Health
Location: Melville
Posted on: June 21, 2022

Job Description:

Facility: CHS Services Location: Melville, NY Department: Desktop & Server Architecture Category: IT Schedule: Full Time Shift: Day shift Hours: 9:00AM - 5:00PM ReqNum: 6041176Position SummaryThe Senior Microsoft Systems Admin is charged with assisting the Team Leads in project level activities and management of day to day activities, while mentoring staff administrators. This position is responsible to architect solutions that enhance operations and automation. This individual ensures that systems hardware, software, operating systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational strategy and known best practices. Candidate participates in technical research and development to enable continued innovation, and optimization.Duties/Responsibilities

• Design, develop and participate in project appropriate aspects of information systems lifecycles (business requirements definition, selection / planning, build, test, train, implementation, production support)
• Ability to work within a team environment, be a self-starter, have strong time management and communication skills, be highly focused / disciplined, and be willing to take ownership and produce deliverables on schedule
• Install, configure and maintain Microsoft based systems
• Actively manage daily system administrative duties, including but not limited to error monitoring, storage management, processor utilization analysis and data integrity validation
• Achieves system upgrades - hardware / software, patch management and system tuning
• Assist with maintaining enterprise backup and restoration of systems
• Develops technical and procedural documentation for related systems and applications
• Participate in the development and implementation of CHS' business / disaster recovery tests to ensure that plans are current and effective
• Work closely with vendors and other suppliers of IT related products and services to implement solutions or solve business problems
• Contribute to and consistently apply CHS' security policies and procedures to the system infrastructure
• Working with IT team members to assess and solve teams' application to server related issues.
• Provide Tier II and Tier III end-user rollout and troubleshooting support as directed
• Performs related and unrelated duties as assigned or requested. POSITION REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Education: Bachelors' Degree in Information Systems / Computer Science preferred.
  • VMware Certified Professional (VCP or VCAP) preferred.
  • Microsoft Systems Administration training and / or certification. Skills: Successful Implementation / Knowledge Of The Following Technologies
    • VMware ESXI experience (certification/plus)
    • Site Recovery Manager
    • vSphere Replication
    • Storage integration (FC, iSCSI/NAS)
    • vRealize Operations Manager
    • Active Directory and Windows security
    • Group Policy Management
    • Sites & Services Management
    • Federated Services (desirable)
    • Microsoft Operating Systems - desktop and server (2008 through current)
    • Microsoft Exchange
    • Microsoft scripting (PowerShell, Batch and SQL)
    • System automation
    • Solarwinds monitoring experience
    • Data Protection experience
    • Knowledge of disaster recovery and business continuity
    • Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills.
    • A predisposition to collaborate with others in the attainment of common goals and objectives.
    • Must be proficient with MS Office Suite including Visio and Project, with the ability to document systems architecture.
    • Effective human relations and personnel management skills.
    • Capability to work independently, with ability to multi-task.
    • Willingness to travel from entity to entity.
    • Ability to work in stressful situations.
    • Available for on-call or off hour support - 24 x 7 x 365.

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