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Senior Server Administrator

FARMERS BRANCH-75234, TX, US
03/07/2019

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Required Skills

Linux

Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

Job Description

SENIOR SERVER ADMINISTRATOR

CONTRACT-TO-HIRE

DALLAS/FARMERS BRANCH, TX

POSITION:

ICS is looking for a Senior Server Administrator, who thrives being in a "jack-of-all-trades " enviroment, to join our growing Financial Services client’s team! This person will be responsible for installation, integration, administration and maintenance of the servers and systems software.

The ideal candidate will contribute to the strategic vision, serve as the top-level contributor, and lead for the IT Infrastructure initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work with the IT Applications team, IT Operations team and lines of business to analyze business requirements and develop scalable and cost-effective solutions

Perform evaluations of new infrastructure solutions sets to augment existing capabilities.

Assist in the design of IT infrastructure solutions that conform to industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

Participate in and/or lead major infrastructure implementations, upgrades, and migrations.

Maintains the backup system infrastructure, improves backup system performance, and develops new enhancements and services

Create standard procedures for the backup and storage systems

Conduct capacity planning and performance analysis of the backup and storage infrastructure

Performs troubleshooting as required. As such, leads problem-solving efforts often involving outside vendors and other support personnel and/or organizations.

Perform activities related to the install, configuration and management of SAN devices and fiber switches

Oversee IO performance and provide architecture and performance recommendations

Works with senior IT staff to recommend hardware and software purchases

In Person, Phone, Email and Ticket support with onsite and remote employees.

Manage Ticket pipeline within stated SLA’s.

Performs all other duties as required.

REQUIREMENTS:

3+ years of experience in storage administration

5+ years in backup administration

Strong experience with storage architecture and administration (SAN, NAS, Fiber channel, iSCSI, etc.)

Strong experience managing and designing backup solutions for an organization with multiple locations and multiple storage types

Prior experience with NetBackup or Veeam a plus

Must have experience with NetApp Filer and Hitachi SANs, Nimble a plus

Linux experience a strong plus

Cloud experience a strong plus (AWS, Azure)

Strong problem solving skills: ability to assess a problem and determine an effective course of action.

Excellent verbal and written communication, listening, and strong presentation skills.