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Senior Systems Administrator
| Company | TDS |
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| Location | Madison, WI, USA |
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| Salary | $69100 – $112300 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Associate’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Associates degree (or higher) -OR- 2+ years professional work experience.
- 3+ years of systems administration experience.
Responsibilities
- Leads teams of 2-4 people that design, develop, implement, test, and fix defects in systems. Systems may be routine to moderately complex.
- Performs complex maintenance, administration, and capacity planning activities on systems to ensure continued reliability, performance, and security targets are met. Automates system administration activities through scripting tools.
- Leads work teams in preparing work estimates and project schedules for all technical work for the projects within the team.
- Leads work teams in resolving complex problems.
- Maintains expert knowledge on the systems and tools within the scope of the team’s responsibility. Maintains expert knowledge of the business processes supported by the systems.
- Maintains expert-level knowledge of system configuration and administration best practices, tools, and methodologies that are recognized throughout Information Systems.
- Leads teams focused on quality and continuous improvement initiatives across business units within the company.
- Maintains expert knowledge of the technologies and practices of the company’s chosen markets.
- Maintains awareness of trends in technologies and vendor product offerings.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with networking, security, and RHEL and Centos operating systems, including IPv4, IPv6, load balancers, and firewalls.
- Experience with VMWare ESXi, OpenShift or other virtualization and container technologies
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD, including Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins and GitHub
- Experience with Python and RESTful APIs
- Experience with SSL certificates and PKI infrastructure
- Familiarity with various models of HPE server Hardware
- Experience with AWS or Azure cloud computing
- Experience with Kanban and Agile practices and DevOps and SecOps, including Jira as a ticketing and issue tracking system
- Knowledge of systems development methodologies, practices, and tools.
- Knowledge of Elastic, Splunk or other monitoring systems
- Knowledge of Nagios, Icinga or other monitoring software
- Knowledge of team leadership skills, practices, and behaviors.
- Ability to travel as needed for company business and professional development.
- Ability to work nights and weekends as needed for system implementations and resolving system problems.
