| Title: Senior System Administrator - Windows Specialty
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| Location: Sherwood, AR
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| Job Type: Direct Hire
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| Compensation: per Year
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| Reference Code: 943495-WQG
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Description: The Senior System Administrator position is a unique position which requires a diverse range of skills as well as an understanding of how to participate in a team-oriented environment. This position provides a range of services for corporate users beginning with desktop support and hardware issues all the way to maintaining vendor relationships and application support for customized installations, both vendor-supplied as well as in-house developed.
Responsibilities:
- Installing and supporting new server hardware and software infrastructure
- Ensuring that hardware and software systems are maintained
- Allocating network resources
- Providing technical support to users with very different levels of IT knowledge and competence
- Ensuring the most cost effective and efficient use of resources
- Suggesting and providing IT solutions to business and management problems
- Ensuring that all IT equipment complies with industry standards
- Trouble-shooting ranging from critical system outages to forgotten passwords
- Implementing and monitoring security measures and standards
- Training users - sometimes one-on-one, sometimes in groups, and providing written guidelines and instructions
- Working closely with other departments/organizations to analyze requirements or solve problems
- Planning and implementing future IT developments
- System maintenance and administration of internal networks and public web services
- Monitoring and reporting system performance
- Participating in projects as a technical support knowledge base
- Working closely with other teams for problem resolution and project coordination
- Operating in a leadership capacity by taking on a mentoring role where appropriate
- Performing other duties and projects as assigned
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Requirements: Skills Required:
- 7+ years of prior technical support experience
- Strongly developed analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Good communication skills (written and oral)
- Knowledge and experience with MS Active Directory and Internet Information Server
- Knowledge and experience with high-end Microsoft Windows based server platforms such as Windows 2000/2003/XP and Microsoft SQL Server
- Extensive knowledge and experience with the BASH shell environment
- Team player with the ability to learn complex technical material
- Microsoft (MS) Exchange (Admin and Installation)
- SharePoint
- SQL administration and installation
- VMware
- Windows Server 2008 (preferred not required)
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