Job
Title: Systems and Network Engineer
Reports to: Systems Administrator
Summary
The System and Network Engineer is responsible for effective provisioning,
installation /configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and
software.
The SNE is also responsible for installing, setup, and monitoring of local area
networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN).
The SNE also performs a variety of maintenance, evaluation, installation, and
training tasks to ensure LAN and WAN performance meets required standards.
This individual participates in technical research and development to enable
continuing innovation within the network infrastructure.
This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software
systems, network hardware and related procedures adhere to organizational
values, enabling staff, volunteers, and Partners and clients.
This individual will assist project teams with technical issues in the
Initiation and Planning phases of our standard Project Management Methodology.
These activities include the definition of needs, benefits, and technical
strategy; research & development within the project life-cycle; technical
analysis and design; and support of operations staff in executing, testing and
rolling-out the solutions.
Participation on projects is focused on smoothing the transition of projects
from development staff to production staff by performing operations activities
within the project life-cycle.
This individual is accountable for the Windows and Linux systems that are
running either within the Company premises or on Client locations.
Responsibilities on these systems include SNE engineering and provisioning,
operations and support, maintenance and research and development to ensure
continual innovation.
Key Tasks
SA Engineering and Provisioning
- Engineering
of SNE-related solutions for various project and operational needs.
- Install
new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals,
services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with
standards and project/operational requirements.
- Install
and configure systems such as network switches, routers, firewalls,
intrusion detections systems and general network infrastructure
- Develop
and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
- Contribute
to and maintain system standards.
- Research
and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for
system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our
resources and provide economies of scale.
Operations and Support
- Perform
daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all
hardware, server resources, network resources, systems and key processes,
reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of
scheduled jobs such as backups.
- Perform
regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
- Perform
daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system
data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes
or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.
- Perform
regular file archival and purge as necessary.
- Create,
change, and delete user accounts per request.
- Provide
Tier III/other support per request from various constituencies.
Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
- Repair
and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate
with impacted constituencies.
- Generate
reports on all processes i.e. survey reports, solution designs including
drawings, implementation reports and project progress reports.
Maintenance
- Apply
OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative
tools and utilities such as anti virus. Configure / add new services as
necessary.
- Upgrade
and configure system software that supports applications in use.
- Maintain
operational, configuration, or other procedures.
- Perform
periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
- Perform
ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization
as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
- Maintain
data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
- Maintenance
of hardware such as printers, peripherals, monitors etc
Any
other duties as assigned
Knowledge and Skills Requirement
- Bachelors
degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science.
- Systems
Administration/System Engineer certification in and Microsoft.
- CCNA
certification.
Complexity/problem solving:
Position deals with a variety of problems and sometime has to decide which
answer is best. The question/issues are typically clear and require
determination of which answer (from a few choices) is the best.
Discretion/latitude/decision-making:
Decisions normally have a noticeable effect department-wide and company-wide,
and judgment errors can typically require one to two weeks to correct or
reverse.
Responsibility/oversight -financial & supervisory:
Functions as a lead worker doing the work similar to those in the work unit;
responsibility for training, instruction, setting the work pace, and possibly
evaluating performance.
Minimal budget responsibility.
Communications/interpersonal contacts:
Interpret and/or discuss information with others, which involves terminology or
concepts not familiar to many people; regularly provide advice and recommend
actions involving rather complex issues. May resolve problems within
established practices.
Provides occasional guidance, some of which is technical.
Working conditions/physical effort:
Responsibilities sometimes require working evenings and weekends, sometimes
with little advance notice.
Regular travel required.
Email: recruitment@workforceassociates.net
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