Senior System Administrator

Description

We are seeking a Sr. System Administrator for a Virtual Environment of about 200 VMWARE Servers, some windows, and unix and linux, to manage the creation and destruction of a development lab. Will work with requestors of the system and create a development lab for whatever project the developers are working on.

Responsibilities would include, but are not limited to:
Administering a Server development room and participating in a System archive process. Must take ownership of the system. Must understand overall function of server. They will not have a standard protocol must be able to figure out what requestors need and how to develop the environment.

Responsibilities:

• Development Lab Administrator
• Managing Server development Lab
• Keeping track of environment and activities
• Providing Status Reports of environment
• Evolve the environment
• Create and implement a backup and recovery process
• Organize and manage cabling
• Consolidate and decommission Servers
• Collaborate with business and systems developers
• Communicating current and future company standards
• Discussing systems needed for development projects
• Building systems to project requirements
• Adapting systems to project needs
• Setting up environment for patch testing
• Ongoing Support
• Install, support, and maintain Servers.
• Planning for and responding to planned and unplanned service outages
• Responding to planned and unplanned hardware outages
• Scripting and Shell programming for maintenance task
• Project management for systems-related projects
• Installing and configuring off the self-software packages
• System Archive Analyst
• Answer data retrieval requests
• Determine how to retrieve the requested data
• Connecting to appropriate Virtual Archive Environment resources
• Following instructions to answer requesters data needs
• Provide the data to requester in required format
• Working with SME to configure system for archival
• Setup systems required to facilitate the archiving, viewing and presenting data
• Virtualize data and/or Servers into the archive environment
• Verify and or develop data retrieval documentation
• Document archive activities with appropriate documentation
• Parallel manage multiple projects
• Configure computer hardware, physical and virtual
• Configure interoperability between applications, databases and client software
• Install and configure enterprise level software
• Install and Configure RDBMs (Oracle/MS SQL Server)
• Migration of databases
• Troubleshoot computer and software issues - L3
• Follow Standard Operation Procedures
• Execute test scripts
• Review/update all documentation
• Develop and write procedural protocols and test scripts
• Verification of migration of data over LAN/WAN
• Recommend improvement to the existing procedures
• Develop and write supporting documentation
• Communicate to various levels of technical skill sets in an effective manner
• Communicate across all levels of staff and management
• Work independently as well as in a team environment
• Utilize tools to migrate to a virtual environment
• Administer virtual environments
• Accurately track and report project hours
• Work with GMP and validated systems
• Comply with corporate processes

SKILLS:

Requirements:

• Must have experience in Linux/Unix and Strong Windows experience
• Expertise in the Installation, use, administration and troubleshooting of: Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2 Servers, VMware 3.5 ESX/ESXi, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2008R2, Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, and 11g, Redhat Linux 3, 4 and 5
• Expertise in the Installation, use, administration and troubleshooting of VMware Virtual environments
• Hardware expertise in the Installation, use, administration and troubleshooting of: HP DL, ML and DLG Servers, Dell Power Edge, Storage Management, SAN, NAS, NFS, LUNS
• Understanding of DNS and TCP/IP
• Infrastructure Management
• Cabling
• Electrical
• Experience configuring & troubleshooting the interoperability between applications, databases and client software
• Understanding of interdependency of systems (ie Application, Database, Web, File Servers and client systems)
• Strong organization skills
• Demonstrated ability to communicate across all levels of staff and management
• Detail oriented
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• 5 years IT plus 1 year of Jr Server experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Solid troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Experience determining how to maneuver unfamiliar applications

Plus:

• A+ Certification
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry
• Experience with GMP systems
• Experience working with Solaris & SunFire Servers
• Understanding of Active Directory & authentication technologies
• Experience with different virtualization tools, such as: Platespin Migrate, VMware Converter, and Acronis Backup and Recovery
• Understanding of system clustering
• Valid passport for international travel (limited if any)
• Experience working with AS400