Contract (3 Months)
Summary:
- Responsible for planning deploying and maintaining critical infrastructure systems to ensure high availability scalability and security.
- Must have a strong systems engineering networking and infrastructure management background.
- Lead role in supporting departmental and company projects and objectives including researching
- recommending and implementing new technological solutions.
- Must maintain compliance with the companys Information Security policies and practices.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provides administrative support for Windows environments used across development test UAT and production environments.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure architecture documentation.
- Deploy configure and maintain Virtual Servers VDI and Storage Area Network infrastructures and other infrastructure components.
- Perform regular system updates patches and security configurations.
- Provide technical support and guidance to other IT staff and endusers.
- Proactively research plan and implement changes to improve systems/networks including virtualization.
- Work with business analysts and operations to evaluate user requirements for changes or enhancements to existing business systems and provide specifications where needed.
- Performs regular handson maintenance and management for business systems resolving inquiries and issues.
- Assists IT Operations Management with license compliance as it relates to enterprise technology environment.
- Monitors systems performance and ensures compliance with security standards.
- Interact with employees vendors and contractors assisting in resolving any issues.
- Responsible for improving and documenting the technical processes (using Confluence)
- Develop and implement automation scripts and tools to improve efficiency and reduce manual tasks.
- Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability testing.
- Maintain and enforce data protection and disaster recovery policies.
- Optimize infrastructure for performance scalability and costefficiency.
- Collaborate with software developers network engineers and other IT professionals to ensure seamless
- integration of systems.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide timely updates on projects.
Education Training and Experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science information technology or related discipline or twoyear college degree with relevant experience.
- 5 years of Windows system administration for onpremise and cloud environments (WindowsDHCP DNS IIS PowerShell Group Policies etc.).
- 5 years of experience with Active Directory & Windows Server.
- 5 years of VMware versions 6.5 and above including experience with VDI Proven and a solid understanding of VMware virtualization technologies such as vSphere ESXi and vCenter Server.
- 2 years of experience with antivirus patch management and endpoint management solutions.
- Experience managing production environments across Physical Virtualized and Cloud technologies.
- Familiarity with server builds using a spectrum of hardware components.
- The ability and history of automating tasks and writing bash scripts to make their life easier.
- Proven experience as a Systems Infrastructure Engineer or similar role.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python Bash or PowerShell.
- Experience with cloud platforms i.e. AWS and Azure.
- Familiarity with infrastructureascode tools i.e. Ansible preferred.
- Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong problemsolving skills and the ability to work under pressure.
- Knowledge of network security concepts including encryption IDS/IPS proxies and protocol filtering.
- Professional certification preferred.
Additional client information:
Industry: Insurance
Domain: IT
Assignment Type: Contract
Rate Negotiable
Client: Apex Systems LLC
Department: N/A
Education Level: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related discipline or twoyear college degree with relevant experience Bachelors Degree in Network
Hours Per Week: 40
Job Start Date: Jul 05 2024
Certifications & Licences If any
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