Description
This role of System Administrator Infrastructure is to maintain the server and storage environment by identifying system requirements, provisioning new systems, installing upgrades, managing hardware, software maintenance and licensing.
The System Infrastructure team is responsible for all physical and virtual server infrastructure, storage arrays, and backups across all Paycom datacenters.
As a System Administrator you will collaborate with the team in the architecture, configuration, and maintenance of all system infrastructure projects, tools and processes, as well as participate in troubleshooting, remediation, and documentation.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assist in the architecture design and determining system requirements for all new server and storage requests
- Configure Windows and Linux operating systems on virtual and physical servers
- Work support tickets assigned to the System Infrastructure team
- Monitor system performance and logs and provide reports for managements awareness into the technical health of Paycoms infrastructure
- Capacity planning and forecasting
- Develop team documentation for day to day duties and gained team knowledge
- Keep systems properly configured, updated, healthy, hardened and scaled to meet the needs of the business
- Work with various technology teams to pro-actively evaluate DR plans, backup requirements, and failover procedures
- Communicate with vendors to ensure we are properly licensed and up to date on renewals
- Be responsible for and act as subject matter expert on any assigned systems
Qualifications
Education / Certification :
Bachelor’s degree
Experience :
- 3+ years of professional IT experience
- 3+ years supporting servers and / or storage systems
Skills / Abilities :
- Knowledge of virtualization technologies such as VMware vCenter / ESXi
- Working knowledge of Windows or Linux Server operating systems
- Familiar with backup and recovery software
- In depth knowledge and experience of web application architecture and technologies
- Knowledge of blade server hardware, such as UCS
- Knowledge of enterprise storage systems and protocols (SMB / CIFS / NFS / iSCSI)
- Powershell or similar command line tools used to manage and automate
- Using a log aggregation tool, such as Splunk, for troubleshooting and reporting
- Data retention and capacity planning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Education / Certification :
- Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Info Sys, Computer Science, or related fields
- MTA / MCSE
- RHCA / Linux+
Experience :
- System administration experience in med-large private datacenter environments
- Proven track record of building and maintaining highly available system architecture
- High availability and disaster recovery planning and design.
- Linux administration
Skills / Abilities :
- In-depth knowledge of Networking / Firewall components
- Multi-node system (HA) architecture planning and design
- Load-balancing concepts and deployments
- Scripting languages