Senior IT Infrastructure Administrator

Senior IT Infrastructure Administrator

Our client is locally owned and operated. Established in 1949, has grown into a regional and national industrial equipment supplier, providing a combination of value-added technical services, engineering, consultation, and quality products to a variety of markets.

They provide mission-critical equipment to a wide variety of industries including Fortune 500 companies.

Job Summary :

Provide implementation and administration relating to hardware, software, processes and procedures for network, security control, and infrastructure systems within the organization, with a focus on security and availability.

Provide escalation support for issues as required. Manage and support servers, network hardware, software, and security devices, systems, and controls.

Essential Job Duties :

• Design, build, and maintain network and security infrastructure in alignment with business needs, strategic goals, and IT plan of record.
• Implement and administer network components including switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, traffic filtering, intrusion detection and prevention, log collection and analysis, hypervisor and endpoint security applications.
• Work with other IT staff in areas of shared responsibility to ensure design goals and requirements are met.
• Maintain security and integrity of all infrastructure elements and ensure all security processes, procedures, and standards are properly implemented.
• Research and understand current and emerging technologies.
• Recommend enhancements and new solutions to anticipate business needs and cultivate continuous improvement.
• Contribute as an effective team member toward operational and project work. Participate in project manager-led meetings, status updates, and chartering activities.
• Regularly monitor and review system and application health and integrity. Respond, troubleshoot, and diagnose issues, work with appropriate IT staff or vendor support to remediate problems.
• Serve as a second-tier escalation point for user-reported issues. Manage problem and request ticketing in a timely and effective fashion while providing an excellent customer support experience.
• Participate in vulnerability management, audit, and assessment efforts as required.
• Follow the prescribed IT Lifecycle Management processes and perform all necessary software, firmware, and hardware maintenance.
• Respond to alert and outage escalation events. This includes response coverage after hours, weekends, and holidays.
• Conduct and / or produce end-user and trainer training for areas and technologies of responsibility.
• Communicate effectively with users at all levels of the organization in the use and troubleshooting of technology and related incidents.
• Appropriately prioritize work, follow prescribed standards and policies including change management procedures.
• Manage vendor relationship including purchasing and maintenance for areas and technologies of primary responsibility.
• Create and maintain security detection and response procedures and playbooks appropriate to the current environment and threat landscape.
• Create and maintain clear documentation, designs, build playbooks, and standards for areas of responsibility.
• Follow the prescribed IT CAB Change Authorization Board processes, ensuring policy compliance and effective communication and scheduling.
• Regularly monitor and communicate metrics for areas of responsibility, recommending improvements or capacity changes as warranted.
• Ensure adequate cross training in areas of responsibility.

Qualifications :

• 8+ years of progressively responsible, relevant network, security, systems, and infrastructure administration experience are required
• Aptitude for leading peer teams and project efforts, visioning and goal setting, championing technology solutions and continuous improvement
• B.S. in an IT Infrastructure-related discipline or related field or equivalent experience required
• Relevant vendor / technology certifications and training are preferred

Experience with Cloud orchestration tools

• Expert level knowledge with all aspects of IP networking, traditional and software-defined WAN, firewalls, load balancers, IDS / IPS, virtualization, scripting and shell environments, log collection and analysis, wireless networking, endpoint agents and other network and security products.
• Expert level experience will all aspects of server operating systems, hypervisors, storage, storage area networks, and monitoring and alerting systems
• Excellent communication skills

Compensation :

Up to $125,000 / yr for highly qualified candidates

Benefits : regular training, favorable work environment, generous profit sharing, 401K, full medical and dental coverage, paid vacation and sick leave, life insurance, uniforms and cell phone.

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Compensation / Pay Rate (Up to) : $110,000.00 - $125,000.00 Per Year