Job Title: System Administrator IV
Location: San Francisco - 3 days a week
Duration: 3 Months
 
Please rank your preferred top skill sets: (For Example: tools, previous experience, technologies)

• Systems Engineering experience in enterprise setting either as a tech support engineer or IT systems admin

Must have skills:

• Proven experience (7-10 years) in systems engineering or administration in the Enterprise Services space
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools for system performance and troubleshooting.

 
Summary

• Monitor slack channels for ticket management and issue troubleshooting

• Contribute to the overall success of the IT Operations organization by providing oversight and improvement of corporate IT infrastructure platform and by streamlining recurring administrative efforts.
• Interface daily with other IT technical staff, working on assignments and delivering services related in the area of responsibility.
• This position will require 24x7 coverage and response to systems alerts during 'on-call' periods.
• The Systems Administrator must be receptive to management coaching to increase his/her individual and teams effectiveness.

 
Additional responsibilities:

• Participate in technology evaluations, related projects, and make recommendations
• Help resolve complex IT issues
• Maintain systems patch levels proactively
• Demonstrate enterprise compliance to standards with objectively using metrics
• Respond to and remediate systems incidents
• Write installation scripts and programs for installation of products
• Develop and maintain hardened systems configuration standards and conventions
• Configure systems and tools to automate manual tasks through scripting and scheduling
• Make use of command scripting and scheduling to reduce errors
• Ensure enterprise changes are tracked and controlled Document standards, best practices and policies for Windows/Linux/Solaris server platforms
• Field escalated support requests from groups including Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, IT NOC, Desktop Support, GSD, Information Security, Data Warehouse, Application Support, Tech Operations and other

 
Required skills/experience

• This position requires someone who is smart, learns quickly, hardworking and thrives in a fast-paced team environment
• Requires a Bachelor’s degree and 6-8 years combined experience within technical support, network administration, systems engineering and security administration
• Must have effective oral and written communications skills and the ability to work successfully with others
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills, ability to provide alternatives, root cause analysis, testing skills and ability to make thoughtful proposals are also among the skills required
• Must have practical experience with network, systems and storage management implementation, troubleshooting, change management and root cause analysis
• Must possess hands-on experience with later Wintel/Sun/Linux/VMWare platform hardware and software
• Ablity to travel: Travel periodically within 50 miles of home office and occasionally to the San Francisco, Bay Area

 
Desired skills

• Experience with mission critical systems management in a large global organization
• Proficiency with two or more management suites from vendors including: Dell, EMC, NetApp, Cisco, HP, VMWare, Symantec, APC
• Microsoft enterprise technologies administration expertise including Exchange, AD/GPO, MS SQL
• Data replication and acceleration solutions. Web 2.0 technologies, software development, license metering, asset management, scripting
• One or more industry certifications including but not limited to MCSE, RHCE, VCP.
• Prior experience with salesforce.com application.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 75.00/hr.