Systems Administrator 4

Location: Carlsbad, CA Salary: $86,000.00 USD Annually - $130,000.00 USD Annually Description: Our client is currently seeking a Systems Administrator 4

• Design/implement complex local and wide-area networks of machines
• Manage a large, complex site or network
• Plan the architecture of the systems, considering company needs & growth, for 2 to 5 months ahead
• Prepare alternate architectures to achieve company needs, with benefit/drawback analysis
• Keep up to date with possible new architectures that will increase performance and/or capacity, in addition to or in place of current systems
• Identify/troubleshoot possible or existing inefficiencies and/or problems with current architecture of systems
• Establish/recommend policies on system use and services
• Provide technical lead and/or supervises system administrators, system programmers, or others of equivalent seniority
• Exercise purchasing authority and responsibility for purchase justification
• Deploy, configure, and maintain new physical and virtual servers
• Monitor physical and virtual server's security and performance
• Deploy, configure, and maintain storage architecture (SAN, NAS, DAS, etc.)
• Security focal for Identity Access Management, Multi-Factor Authentication, Single Sign-On, End-Point Protection, and others as required
• Ensure adequate Disaster Recovery and Business Continuance plan effectiveness to protect critical data and ensure operational readiness
• Ensure compliance, patching and SW updates on computing assets
• Ensure operational readiness of core systems
• Define and enables configurations and capabilities to support mobile and remote workforce
• Monitor and manage network performance
• Ability to work extended hours/after-hours as needed
• Perform all other job duties as assigned

• 5 years of previous related system administration experience.
• Extensive programming background in any applicable language (such as C+, C#, SQL, PowerShell)
• Previous experience designing and implementing complex local and wide-area networks of machines
• Expertise with networked/distributed computing environment concepts; for example, ability to use the route command, administer routing and remote access service, and modify deployed group policies
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to write proposals or papers, act as a vendor liaison, make presentations to customers or client audiences or professional peers, and work closely with upper management
• Ability to solve problems quickly and automate processes
• Familiarity with the principles and practice of system configuration management; experienced using a declarative configuration management system and a broad understanding of the role of desired configuration as part of strategic organizational knowledge
• A solid understanding of an operating system; understanding of paging and swapping, inter-process communications, devices and what device drivers do, filesystem concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions), ability to use performance analysis to tune systems
• A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts, including principles of routing, bridging, and switching, client/ server programming, and the design of consistent network-wide file system layouts
• Highly experienced in developing, deploying, and maintaining Server and Storage Architectures