Systems Administrator, Sr

City of Glendale•Glendale, AZ

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The City of Glendale's Water Services Department provides over 250,000 residents with safe, reliable, and high-quality water and wastewater services. Glendale Water Services promotes industry best practices, leadership, and innovation to ensure our employees put public health and the vitality of our community first! This position will be open until filled; applicants will be reviewed as they are received. The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System Administrator, Sr. provides senior level technical support for the Water Services Department's SCADA systems. In this role you will contribute to the planning, purchase, installation, update, and support of the Water Services Department SCADA infrastructure. In addition to a generous salary, this position also offers a $5,000 Hiring Bonus! Hiring Bonus to be paid as follows: $1,000 after 30 days of employment, $2,000 after 6 months of employment, $2,000 after completion of 1 year probation. You must be an active employee at the time the hiring bonus is scheduled to be paid in order to receive the bonus. Current City of Glendale employees are not eligible for hiring bonuses.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering and four years of experience supporting a SCADA system.
One year of relevant experience may be substituted for each year of required education.

Nice To Haves

One or more years of experience in a Lead or Supervisory position is preferred.
Any equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying.

Responsibilities

Works in conjunction with Information Technology staff to devise strategic and tactical solutions required to meet overall business objectives of the Water Services Department.
Recommends and develops SCADA technology security solutions considering a number of factors including budget, business need, internal capabilities and strategic direction.
Develops project schedules, prioritizes tasks, and meets project schedule requirements for all phases of SCADA system upgrades for water and wastewater treatment and conveyance systems.
Manages Active Directory, group policies, DNS and replication
Provide system administration, analysis, and design functions for SCADA servers, storage, and backup systems.
Keeps systems software and firmware up to date.
Evaluate, recommend, and perform upgrades to IT systems and infrastructure to ensure availability and minimize downtime
Develops, implements, documents, and maintains appropriate back-up strategies for Water Services compliance data for emergency and data recovery needs.
Recommends and maintains standard SCADA procedures and naming conventions.
Ensures system changes and modifications are documented using a change control process and system.
Plan and manage user identity and roles.
Manage access and authentication
Implements and monitors appropriate SCADA security procedures to safe guard the SCADA infrastructure from physical harm, viruses, unauthorized users and potential data loss.
Provides on-call support during non-business hours
Provides support for the VMWare virtualization environment and oversees HP Nimble storage solutions
Performs other related duties as assigned.

Benefits

The City of Glendale offers a generous benefits package with competitive rates that become effective the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment.
10.5 holidays per year
12 hours of holiday special leave to celebrate their cultural or religious holidays throughout the calendar year.
Vacation leave accrues at: 5.33 hours per pay period (138 hours/17.25 days per year)
Increases to 6.12 hours after 5 years
Caps out at 7.6 hours after 10 years of service
Sick leave accrues at 4.4 hours per pay period (114 hours/14.25 days per year)
Participates in the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS).
Contribution is mandatory, and deducted every pay period
The current contribution rate is 11.98%