Job Title : System Administrator (Control Systems)
Location : Dallas TX 75202(onsite)
Contract (Looking for W2 OR Own-Corp Candidates only)
Essential Skills and Competencies :
- Manage and administer Windows (2008, 2012, 2016, and 2019) and Linux (RHEL 7.X, 8.X and 9.X) servers
- Support and manage server virtualization, server provisioning, physical server maintenance, security compliance and the daily operation of the control system environments
- Maintain the physical server lifecycle including provisioning, maintenance, and decommissioning of the hardware
- Maintain the virtualized server environment via configuration, implementation, management and support activities
- Maintain the VMware VDI environment via configuration, implementation, management and support activities
- Maintain security baseline compliance via configuration, implementation, and remediation activities; report on compliance via routine compliance and audit tasks
- Monitor the server infrastructure environment health status, service performance, and utilization; report on trends and anomalies
- Implement and maintain continuous compliance to information security policies, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), and technical standards; report and provide remediation around non-compliances
- Apply regular security patches and software updates
- Provide tier-3 engineering support as well as business continuity support for control system infrastructure
- Collaborates with application, network, security and functional team that support Control System tools and applications
- Participates in on call Control System support rotation cycle
Technical Skill Requirement
Core experience in Windows, Active Directory, VMware vSphere and vRealize Suite, vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), Horizon View administration, Nutanix, and Linux in a global and heterogeneous environmentGood Understanding of Virtualization technology (Hyper-V and VMware)Good hands-on experience in diagnostics and troubleshooting of above-mentioned technologies and product suitesGood understanding of highly available and disaster recovery environmentsExperience in performance tuning of VMware servers and Virtual sessions and management of server resources for both physical as well as between virtual machinesExperience and expertise on Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, ADFS, Group Policies, and FTP & SFTPAbility to implement AD infrastructure. Proficient in doing Recovery of AD Domain Controllers, DNS, WINS, DHCP serversIn-Depth knowledge of Domain Controller replication configurationsGood Exposure to Group Policies creation, their testing and implementationShould have good knowledge and troubleshooting skills on MS clusters and load balancingStrong in file and print server management; knowledge in Windows SecurityExcellent in PowerShell scripting and task automation work with measurable outputs and operational efficienciesOverall knowledge and understanding of data center environments, physical hardware placements, racking, cabling, etc.Good at dealing with hardware and OEM vendors for support and troubleshooting purpose for hardware break fix and large platform / server upgrades / migration is requiredGood at dealing and coordinating with multiple teams and stakeholders within the support structure, in order to run daily operations smoothlyShould have good working experience on RAID management and array controllerShould have expertise in backup products and expertise in protocol suite and command line utilitiesShould have worked with OEM hardware (DELL / HP), and remote connectivity toolsProficiency in system fault tolerance design, business continuity and disaster recovery planningPrior experience working in Operations Technology or Control System environments is preferred