JOB SUMMARY:

Under the general supervision of the Manager, Infrastructure Services, and in collaboration with IT Department Management, Enterprise Architect, the Information Security Office, and Lead System Engineer, provides technical expertise as it applies to server and systems hardware, operating systems, and general data center operations. This position is charged with the responsibility of, and accountability for, providing long term systems solutions to the company-s needs as well as maintaining reliability/service level operational standards as dictated by IT management. The Systems Engineer is directly responsible for hardware, OS, and product implementation, day-to-day integrity, and operation of Windows, Linux, Unix, and other systems in all environments. The Systems Engineer will also assist in the planning of short and long-range changes in configuration, in making recommendations for the selection of platform configurations, hardware, operating systems, and utility software, and will assist in the planning, provisioning, installation, documentation, and administration of all server hardware, operating systems, peripherals, local storage subsystems, utility software, and applications setup. He/she will also assist in the recommendation of data center and NOC tools and monitoring facilities.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

HS Diploma, GED or Equivalent

4 years of experience

Strong background in system administration, network monitoring and management with system utilities and open source or commercial tools and services

Strong understanding and experience in server hardware technology including RAID, SCSI, HBA, NIC, Intel CPU

Strong understanding and experience with any of the following operating systems: Linux, Unix, Microsoft and general infrastructure components; IP networking services, Apache, HA clustering, BIND, Sendmail, Perl/PHP/CGI scripting

Strong understanding and experience with Windows Server operating system technologies, including Active Directory, Windows Cluster, DHCP, WINS, DNS, IIS, Exchange, MS SQL, etc.

Licenses and Certifications: As applicable on various system platforms, operations systems, and 
system applications in accordance with course of study and experience, e.g Linux, MS Windows, VMware, Exchange, etc. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's Degree

Microsoft certification as MCSE+Internet; Similar certification with Unix or Linux platforms 
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