SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR 1455 (formerly SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER) (F) (REVISED 08-31-26)

City of Los Angeles • Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

A Systems Administrator evaluates, develops, maintains, implements, and modifies operating systems, hardware, middleware, software, storage, and networking in a business applications environment; performs hardware-software studies; designs and implements systems architecture; analyzes systems problems and optimizes systems performance; performs systems upgrades; follows Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and security best practices for incident, change and release management, and all aspects of network and server operations; provides technical assistance to other data processing personnel and user divisions or departments; may supervise and direct the work of employees engaged in such activities; applies sound supervisory standards and techniques in building and maintaining an effective work group ; and fulfills equal employment opportunity responsibilities.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university.
• Two (2) years of full-time paid systems implementation experience in either: installing, configuring, maintaining, performance tuning, patching, troubleshooting and securing enterprise level servers and networks; or planning, configuring, and implementing enterprise systems and applications operating over large computing networks serving local and remote facilities; or preparing programs by analyzing specifications developed by systems professionals and identifying and evaluating computer processing requirements, systems and/or programming flowcharts, code programs, and software solutions.
• Two years of full-time paid experience with the City of Los Angeles as a Programmer Analyst.
• Four years of full-time paid systems implementation experience with the City of Los Angeles as a Systems Analyst with experience in either installing, configuring, maintaining, performance tuning, patching, and securing enterprise level servers; or planning, configuring, and implementing enterprise systems and applications operating over large computing networks serving local and remote facilities.
• Additional full-time paid experience as described in Requirement #1 may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required bachelor’s degree.
• One academic year is equivalent to 30 semester or 45 quarter units.
• A valid Class C driver's license issued by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is required at the time of appointment.
• Applicants will be disqualified or deemed in eligible for hire if their DMV record reflects three or more moving violations and/or at-fault accidents, or a conviction of a major moving violation within the last 36 months in any state or jurisdiction.

Nice To Haves

• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
• AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty
• AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate
• AWS Certified Dev.Ops Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Certified Sys Ops Administrator – Associate
• CCIE Data Center
• CCIE Security
• CCIE Wireless
• CCNP Data Center
• CCNP Routing and Switching
• CCNP Wireless
• CCNP Security
• CCSA
• CCSE Certification as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certification as a Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) or as a Checkpoint Certified Security Expert
• Certification as a CISCO Certified Dev Net Associate
• Certification as a CISCO Certified Network Professional (CCNP) or as a CISCO Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
• Certification as a Cisco Certified Security Professional or as a CISCO Certified Internetwork Expert in Security
• Certification as a DNS/BIND Associate
• Certification as a Global Information Assurance Certification (G9ac) Security Essentials (GSEC)
• Certification as a Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) on Windows server platform.
• Certification as an Oracle 9i/10g/11g or latest version or as an Oracle Database 10g/11g or latest version of Administrator Certified Master
• Certification as CompTIA Security +
• Certified other Database Provider (such as Microsoft SQL)
• CCIE Routing and Switching
• Certified with other Linus/Unix Operating System
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)
• Certified with other Linux/Unit Operating System
• Certified with other Network Provider (such as Juniper)
• CISCO Certified Dev.Net Professional
• Cisco Certified Dev.Net Specialist
• CISSP ISC2
• Core Infrastructure Data center Virtualization 2019 (VCP-DCV 2019); VMWare Certified Advanced Professional 6.5 Data Center Virtualization; Cloud Management (VCAP-CMA) (VCP6.5-DCV); Network virtualization (VCP-NV)
• Financial Management Certified Implementation Specialist
• IBM Certified Database Administrator – DB2 for z/OS
• IBM Certified Deployment Professional
• Certification as a Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris Operating System.
• IBM Certified Infrastructure Deployment Professional – Maximo Asset Management v7.X
• VMWare certified Professional
• IBM Certified System Administrator
• IBM Certified System Administrator – DB2 for z/OS
• Java Enterprise
• Microsoft Certified : Azure Administrator Associate
• Oracle Certified Professional
• Oracle Database 12c Administrator Certified Master (OCM)
• Oracle Database 12c Administrator Certified Professional (OCP)
• Oracle Database 9i/10/11g Administrator Certified Associate (OCA)
• Oracle Database 9i/10/11g Administrator Certified Professional (OCP)
• Oracle Database Certified Associate (OCA)
• Oracle E-Business Suite 12
• Oracle Solaris11
• Oracle Web Center Certified Implementation Specialist
• Oracle Certified Associate
• Oracle WebLogic Server 11g/12c System Administrator
• Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Administrator
• Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Certified Implementation Specialist
• Oracle Certified Professional
• PeopleSoft 9.2 Financial Certified Implementation Specialist
• PeopleSoft People Tools 8.5 Certified Implementation Specialist
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
• SAP Certified Technology Associate – System Administration (Max DB) with SAP NetWeaver 7.4
• VM Certified Advanced Professional
• WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V9.0

Responsibilities

• Evaluates, develops, maintains, implements, and modifies operating systems, hardware, middleware, software, storage, and networking in a business applications environment.
• Performs hardware-software studies.
• Designs and implements systems architecture.
• Analyzes systems problems and optimizes systems performance.
• Performs systems upgrades.
• Follows Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and security best practices for incident, change and release management, and all aspects of network and server operations.
• Provides technical assistance to other data processing personnel and user divisions or departments.
• May supervise and direct the work of employees engaged in such activities.
• Applies sound supervisory standards and techniques in building and maintaining an effective work group.
• Fulfills equal employment opportunity responsibilities.

Benefits

• Employee benefit coverage (including health and dental coverage as well as life insurance) will commence approximately six weeks after your original regular appointment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level