Systems Administrator

Job Title: Systems Administrator
Duration: 612 months
Location: Remote
Work Type:
Rate: Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidates education work experience work location specific job duties certifications etc.

Job Summary:
1. Networking (Switching Routing Firewall)
2. Network management & Troubleshooting: Administer and optimize network performance and capabilities in a Cisco infrastructure including switching routing firewalls
3. System Admin

Summary:
The Systems Administrator will be implementing and maintain our organizations IT infrastructure. This role involves server infrastructure management network management and troubleshooting system monitoring web server administration virtualization (VMWare) and various system services. The Systems Administrator will assist in ensuring the stability security and efficiency of our infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Administration: Involves deploying and maintaining server infrastructure while optimizing virtualization technologies primarily VMWare. This includes executing server builds encompassing operating system and application installation and configuration.
Network Management and Troubleshooting: Administer and optimize network performance and capabilities in a Cisco infrastructure including switching routing firewalls and DNS.
Load Balancing: Experience with F5 web application firewalls including setting up new sites and configuring iRules.
Participate in infrastructure projects ensuring ontime completion and adherence to designs.
Perform capacity planning to anticipate resource needs and ensure infrastructure scalability to accommodate future growth.
System Monitoring: Assist with proactive system monitoring tools monitoring system performance capacity and availability and promptly responding to alerts to resolve issues effectively.
Web Server administration: Experience with web server administration including installations configuration optimizing performance administering certificates
System Services Administration: Administers SFTP servers terminal services Active Directory and Group Policy ensuring compliance with organizational standards.
Azure ADFS: Responsible for the administration of Azure Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) configuration and management of SSO for cloudbased applications and troubleshooting ADFSrelated issues.
Terminal Services Administration: Administers terminal servers managing user access application deployment and performance tuning while monitoring and resolving terminal services issues.
Active Directory Administration: Manages and maintains Active Directory infrastructure including user and group management domain services and security policies troubleshooting Active Directoryrelated issues and implementing security best practices.
Patch Management: Experience with patch automation of windows and thirdparty patches. SCCM experience preferred.
Windows scripting: Experience writing and running PowerShell scripts to automate tasks including Employee onboarding offboarding email management and server management.

Requirements
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
Experience with PowerShell scripting.
Indepth knowledge of VMWare virtualization technologies.
Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
Proficiency in system monitoring tools such as Whats Up Gold (WUG) or similar.
Experience with web server administration.
Experience with Azure ADFS and SFTP administration.
Proficiency in Terminal Services administration
Expertise in Active Directory administration including group management and security policies.
Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
Ability independently to work in a fastpaced and dynamic environment.

Working Conditions
Schedule flexibility is occasionally necessary in this position. Individual may be required to perform certain business critical job functions outside of normal working hours.
Must be able to communicate internally and externally through receiving and responding to auditory and visual methods.

ABOUT Ztek:
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Ztek Consulting Inc is a minority and womanowned business enterprise that leverages a unique blend of human talent machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence to provide customized talent management solutions for clients. Zteks diversityfocused hiring models have proven successful particularly in hiring veterans. The companys veteranfocused hiring and deployment program ZV.E.T matches skilled veterans with clients needs in various areas.

Disclaimer:
Ztek is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Ztek is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race color religion or belief national origin citizenship social or ethnic origin sex age physical or mental disability veteran status marital status domestic partner status sexual orientation or any other status protected by the statutes rules and regulations in the locations where it operates.If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment please contact us at Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Ztek encourages all interested and qualified candidates to apply for employment opportunities. Ztek does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status immigration status or national origin in accordance with 8 U.S.C. 1324b.