Description

For over thirty years, SAM has built a reputation as a trusted, knowledgeable, and innovative partner. Our licensed professionals transform petabytes of complex spatial data into intelligent insights in a holistic Managed Geospatial Services™ (MGS™) framework. As North America's premiere MGS™ company, SAM provides practical, precise, and high-fidelity solutions designed to enhance decision-making, mitigate risks, achieve strategic objectives, and drive costs out of our client's business. Our vision is to advance spatial data acquisition, improve analysis capabilities, and develop predictive analytics to redefine and transform how infrastructure assets are developed and managed throughout their lifecycles.

The Senior Systems Administrator will be a member of the IT team and will be focused on the day to day operation and maintenance of SAM servers, applications and data presentation.

• Provide technical support and consultation for the server environment to IT staff, business analysts, vendors and users as necessary
• Plan, implement and maintain the server and storage environment
• Schedule installs and upgrades in accordance with established IT policies and procedures
• Monitor and tune the systems to achieve optimum performance levels including providing input for capacity planning and long term strategic planning
• Conduct routine hardware and software audits of servers and storage to ensure compliance with established IT standards, policies and configuration guidelines
• Instruct and help develop less experienced Server Administrators and other technical staff where appropriate
• On a scheduled basis, provide 24x7 on-call support for break/fix issues, respond according to established on-call procedures
• Monitor incident, change and problem SLA metrics
• Assume responsibility for projects and provide direction and feedback for team members through successful completion
• Perform other tasks as assigned to help accomplish the Company's strategic goals

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Technology or job experience related equivalence
• 6 to 8 years' experience in managing servers and storage with demonstrated experience in maintaining systems in a secure data center environment
• Successful as a key contributor in at least 5 large projects
  • Large projects are defined as having more than 5 participants or a budget of over $250k or a timeline of 4 months or longer
• Personally responsible for the build, implementation and maintenance of over 75 servers
  • Experience with Windows and Linux operating systems
  • Experience with VMware, KVM or HyperV virtualization platforms
• Personally responsible for the build, implementation and maintenance of over 100 terabytes of storage
  • Experience with either iSCSI, FCoE or Fiber Channel storage area network technologies
• MCSE preferred
• Virtualization certification preferred
• ITIL foundations certification preferred
• Any other technology certifications a plus
• Must currently reside in the Austin, Texas area

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