IT Sr Systems Engineer

UMC Health System • Richmond, KY

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is responsible for system management functions for all shared computer system platforms and operating systems, as well as datacenter operations. The role involves managing application administration for pushing updates, packages, and configuration management to servers. It also includes assisting in the planning, implementation, and administration of the overall backup strategy, encompassing traditional backups, VM-level backups, SAN data replication, and air-gapped backups. The engineer will work with third-party vendors to manage databases for optimal performance and backups, and automate processes using scripting technologies. Responsibilities also include managing server architecture for both on-premises and cloud platforms, capacity planning, security administration, ensuring data integrity, data backup and recovery, system performance tuning, system software installation, patching, upgrades, and general troubleshooting. The role also involves assisting with strategic infrastructure design and evaluating new technologies for potential organizational usefulness. System administration will cover AIX, Linux, and Windows.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED
• + 7 years of experience supporting, maintaining, and managing data center systems; working with virtualization platforms
• ITIL certification
• + 1 field certification
• Highly technical, troubleshooting skills are required.
• Effective written and oral communication skills are required.
• Ability to mentor and help grow other team members.
• Well rounded knowledge of how enterprise server systems work to provide applications to end users
• In depth knowledge of how servers should be backed up, preserved, maintained for business continuity, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree
• Scripting capabilities are highly preferred (PowerShell, Python, Bash)

Responsibilities

• Manage application used to push updates, packages/applications, and configuration management to servers.
• Assist in planning, implementing, administrating, and modifying our overall backup strategy. This includes, but is not limited to traditional backup methods, VM-level backups, SAN data replication, and air-gapped backups.
• Work with third-party vendor to manage databases to ensure optimal performance and backups.
• Automate processes where possible and beneficial using scripting technologies.
• Manager server architecture of the servers on premises as well as cloud platform servers
• Capacity planning, security administration, ensuring data integrity, data back up and recovery, system performance tuning, system software installation, patching, upgrades, and general troubleshooting
• Assist with strategic infrastructure design
• Evaluate up and coming technologies and their potential usefulness to the organization
• System Administration: AIX, Linux, Windows

Benefits

• This position qualifies for a hybrid on-site/remote work location. Hybrid remote allows for three days a week to work remotely, and two days a week to work on site

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: High school or GED