IT Administarator

Description

• Ten or more years of system administration experience
• A degree in an information technology related field, although additional experience can compensate for the lack of a degree.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to write purchase justifications, train users in complex topics, make presentations to an internal audience, and interact positively with upper management.
• Independent problem-solving, self-direction.
• Familiarity with the principles and practice of system configuration management using modern declarative tools; ability to model and reduce complex system requirements as configuration declarations
• A solid understanding of an operating system; understanding of paging and swapping, inter-process communications, devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts
• Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts; ability to configure file sharing, ability to query DNS records, understanding of basic routing concepts.
• Works well alone or on a team
• Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (e.g. Perl, Python, VBScript, Windows PowerShell)