100% on-site in Little Rock, Arkansas. Remote work is not available.
Our direct client has an opening for a Senior Network Administrator (717324)
This position is for 10 months with the option of extension and is in Little Rock, Arkansas
This job is w2 only no corps are allowed.
If you are interested, please submit the following:
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As a Lead Network Administrator, this position will be responsible for helping design, install, and monitor the fail/fix support of the Department of Finance & Administration network. Candidates should also have experience in setting up a SharePoint environment. Candidate should have managed a network with over 200 end users. Candidate will have prior experience with fail/fix network management software and bringing back on-line any servers or peripheral devices. Candidate will also be responsible for maintaining the CISCO Firewall.
Monitor and repair network outages.
Implement automated Network Management software.
Familiarity with advanced system administrator tools and process.
Maintain the physical and virtual servers in Microsoft environments.
Maintain Linux based environments.
Responsible for building and maintain enterprise servers.
Maintain the file and print capacity.
Ensures that backups are performed as appropriate.
Provide Tier 2 Network support.
Experience with administration using PowerShell
Ability to understand programs and how they operate
Communicate accurate and useful status updates.
Manage and report time spent on all work activities.
Follow quality standards.
Ability to work in a team environment.
Complete assigned tasks.
Strong communication skills; both written and spoken.
Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts.
Ability to do minimal debugging and modification of programs.
Execute the disaster recovery/back up procedures and archiving procedures.
Manage security for servers.
Responsible for performance tuning, capacity planning, database administration, and fault management.
Provide tier two support of the technical infrastructure.
Coordinating efforts with vendors if tier two support is required.
Responsible for ensuring high priority issues are resolved in a timely manner.
Responsible for keeping the environment up and running.
In many cases is responsible for identifying and reporting hardware problems.
Capable of writing purchase justifications.
Understands basic firewall, routing and switching concepts.
Identify and track issues, risks, and action items.
Resolve and/or assist in resolving issues.
Review, prioritize, and research service requests.
Anticipate and resolve issues specific to the team.
Determine time estimates and schedule for own work and resolve issues in a timely manner.
Maintains network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis
Monitor and investigate security incidents and alerts
Participate in troubleshooting network outages or performance issues
Document’s infrastructure, configurations, and support procedures
Prepares users by designing and conducting training programs
Monitor and troubleshoot backups and replication
Provides administration of servers, both physical and virtual, routers, switches, firewalls, phones, software deployment, security updates and patches.
Assist with managing virtualized server environments
Monitor cloud services and respond to service issues
Perform all Tiers of support with the ability to escalate in an efficient manner
Document network diagrams, software configurations and other equipment
Perform scheduled policy audits and ensure compliance
PLUS THE FOLLOWING:
Solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts.
Understands principles of routing client/server programming.
Manage expectations at all levels: customers/end users, executive sponsors.
Ensure quality standards are followed.
Understand the business application of technical support and design in an application development environment.
Work with the various Infrastructure teams and operations provider to identify the strategic direction of systems management activities.
Understands the design of consistent network-wide file system layouts
Maintain strong relationships with employees and various tier two and three support groups.
Develop plans for disaster recovery/ back up and archiving.
Manage the daily operations of the systems management team to ensure service levels are being met.
Manage the systems management team’s support issue and backlog.
Monitor the team’s open backlog of support issues and re-assign issues as necessary to ensure they are closed per agreed upon service levels.
Act as the first level of escalation for high priority support issues.
Function as the liaison to the various support groups with whom the systems management team interfaces.
Develop the technical infrastructure maintenance strategy.
Manage the system management resources.
Act as a system’s management expert.
Analyze, determine, and document requirements in terms of system management needs and implement them.
Identify, approve, and prioritize team projects.
Manages a large site or network.
Recommends policies on system use and services
Enterprise Level Network Administration Required 10 Years
Microsoft Server and Windows Operating Systems Required 10 Years
Cisco Firewalls, Routers and Switches Required 8 Years
Exchange Server Required 8 Years
Office 365 Support Required 5 Years
SharePoint Implementation Required 3 Years
Azure Administrations\ Required 5 Years
Design and Conduced Backup and Recovery Required 5 Years
Network Management Software Required 3 Years
Linux Required 3 Years
Powershell Required 5 Years
MCSE Required
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