Senior System Administrator, Cynet Systems, Fairfax Station, VA
Cynet Systems -
Fairfax Station, VA,
US
Senior System Administrator
Date Posted: 2024-05-13
Job description
Job Description:
- The individual can work successfully with guidance; can manage simple to medium complexity work efforts; does not provide leadership to others.
- Complete Description: 2-3 years of experience in the field or related subject matter area.
- Respond to Tier 1 support requests.
- Provides exceptional customer service.
- Communicates effectively with teammates and customers of varying levels of technical expertise.
- Responds to all break/fix requests associated with end-user resources.
- Configures and deploys new/replacement desktop/laptop computer equipment and peripherals.
- Maintains up-to-date project and architecture documentation.
- Maintains up-to-date inventory and maintenance records.
- Monitors system resources for server/service anomalies.
- Resolves connection issues between users and resources.
- Maintains a detailed change history of changes.
- Supports team efforts to improve cyber security controls and defenses.
- Supports team efforts for threat hunting and mitigation.
- Manages time and resource constraints.
- The System Administrator is responsible for the effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of computer hardware and software and related infrastructure.
- This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to Commonwealth policies, standards, and guidelines.
- Responsibilities include systems administration engineering and provisioning, operations and support, maintenance, and research and development to ensure continual innovation.
- Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. by standards and project/operational requirements.
- Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
- Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
- Perform daily backup operations and regular file archival and purge as necessary.
- Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.
- Provide Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies.
- Investigate and troubleshoot issues. Diagnose and recover from hardware or software failures.
- Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
- pply OS patches and upgrades regularly, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
- Configure / add new services as necessary.
- Upgrade and configure system software that supports GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.
- Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures.
- Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
- Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.
- Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.