Senior Server Administrator

Regular Exempt GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Responsible for designing infrastructure to ensure high availability and capacity across all services hosted in virtual servers both on-premises and in the cloud. Accountable for managing and optimizing the company's servers and related components to achieve high performance of various business applications. Collaborates with various IT units to resolve complex technical problems and serves as a technical mentor to other server administrators in the Unit. Assist as subject matter expert on business projects. Offers recommendations for improving architecture in current infrastructure and guidance on new technologies that the Company will rely on in the future to improve the performance and availability of the services offered. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Develops infrastructure designs, and documentation and maintains inventories of the different infrastructure components.
• Maintains licensing inventory used in the different infrastructure environments.
• Participates in the analysis of highly complex technical problems to achieve their resolution in the shortest possible time.
• Evaluates infrastructure changes impact, identifies, and notifies possible effects on services due to changes.
• Escalates directly with the different technology providers any infrastructure problem where its resolution has not been reached as established by the problem management procedure.
• Supports the IT security unit in the analysis and resolution of vulnerabilities that represent a risk to services or data hosted in infrastructure environments.
• Lead infrastructure team support for disaster recovery (DRP) exercises.
• Collaborates with network, enterprise application, and database administrators to ensure the availability, reliability, and scalability of corporate servers to meet business demands.
• Works closely with the architecture team to provide recommendations.
• Implements policies, procedures, and technologies to ensure server environment security.
• Lead strategies to avoid obsolescence in operating systems and platforms.
• Resolves incidents related to server environments, prioritizes and responds to service desk "tickets" as required.
• Must comply fully and consistently with all company policies and procedures, with local and federal laws as well as with the regulations applicable to our Industry, to maintain appropriate business and employment practices.
• May carry out other duties and responsibilities as assigned, according to the requirements of education and experience contained in this document. MINIMUM

REQUIREMENTS:
Education and

Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or Electrical or Computer Engineering. At least five (5) years of experience administering information systems. "Proven experience may be replaced by previously established requirements." Certifications/Licenses: Meet at least one (1) of the following

requirements:
• VMware Certified Professional
• Microsoft Azure Administrator
• Nutanix Platform Professional Other: Experience in ITIL Framework, ITIL Problem Management, Server Vulnerability Analysis, and Resolution. Understand relations between Server Infrastructure, Networking, and Database, Windows & Linux server administration. Experience in the management of Microsoft clusters, NLB, and IIS. Experience with Microsoft Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, Active Directory and its diverse services and roles. Experience with server performance monitoring and tuning tools. Languages: Spanish – Intermediate (comprehensive, writing and verbal) English – Intermediate (comprehensive, writing and verbal) “We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and take Affirmative Action to recruit Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.”