Systems Administrator

Growing Baton Rouge print manufacturing company seeks experienced Systems Administrator.

The ideal candidate:

1. Is a “people person” with excellent interpersonal communication skills

2. Is more of a generalist than a specialist; loves to learn and work with all technology

3. Is organized, has good documentation skills and can be self-directing

Job requirements:

5 years experience with VMware (ESXi), modern SANs, and Veeam backup software

5 years experience managing Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange, SQL Server and Windows

Must have a firm grasp of enterprise networking, telephony and security best practices

Mac OS, Linux, and smartphone expertise are a plus

Medical field experience plus (clinical or support).

Responsibilities:

1. Oversight of help desk

2. Install/upgrade computer equipment, peripherals, services, storage, network switches, etc.

3. Perform daily system monitoring, verify integrity and availability of hardware, review system and application logs, and verifying data backup jobs

4. Perform regular security monitoring

5. Perform backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media.

6. Create, change, and delete user accounts

7. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.

8. Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted parties.

9. Identify technology purchasing needs, create requisitions in ERP.

Routine Maintenance / Scheduled tasks will include:

1. Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis.

2. Upgrade administrative tools and utilities.

3. Configure / add new services as necessary.

4. Upgrade and configure system software that supports infrastructure applications

5. Maintain procedures (operational, configuration, etc.)

6. Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.

7. Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.

8. Maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment / tools.

9. Testing disaster recovery fail-over procedures

10. Security Audits (PCI, SOC 2)

11. Penetration testing

Working Conditions / Physical Effort

1. Responsibilities require working evenings and weekends at times – sometimes with little advanced notice.

2. Travel will be required some of the time to remote sites and offices.

3. On-call will be required some of the time.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $50,000.00 to $65,000.00 /year

Job Location:

• Baton Rouge, LA

Required education:

• Bachelor’s

Required experience:

• Systems Administration: 4 years

Required language:

• English