Systems Administrator

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in daily briefing with the end-user to provide status of the systems.
• Perform on-site System Administration support to the end-user personnel and assist the end-user engineers with administering the system.
• Perform System Administration tasks for routine, emergency, test and exercise events in accordance with Technical Manuals, Operating Instructions, and checklists.
• Perform user account maintenance to include the creation, management, and deletion of user and group accounts, profiles, and policies.
• Perform On-The-Job-Training (OJT) and one-on-one assistance on the systems.
• Perform active monitoring of mission systems' operational performance and link status to detect issues that may cause disruption of services.
• Perform data collection (including application, system, and security logs) of any unexpected service disruption and upon request provide data to the end-user to support deficiency resolution and post event forensics.
• Perform error detection and fault correction of the systems.
• Perform backups and archive of the systems in accordance with Technical Manuals, Operating Instructions, and checklists.
• Perform recovery and restoration of the systems in accordance with Technical Manuals, Operating Instructions, and checklists.
• Perform startup, reboots, and shutdown of the systems in accordance with Technical Manuals, Operating Instructions, and checklists.
• Record scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activities using the approved tracking system.

Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelors degree (BS/BA) in IT, Information Security, Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering or MIS related field.
• Ability to work well in a team environment.
• Ability to prioritise tasks and manage own time to meet program needs.
• Problem determination & resolution.
• Good IT skills in a range of SW packages would be an advantage.
• Experience with Red Hat Systems Administration.
• Experience with Windows Systems Administration.
• Experience with Virtualization Systems Administration.
• Experience with VMware ESXi & vSphere.
• Experience with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
• Experience with Storage (NAS, SAN or similar).

Desired Skills

• Microsoft Active Directory.
• Windows Security permissions.
• Knowledge of RedHat Linux and Unix Operating system.
• Knowledge of Network Interfaces, Addressing, and naming services operation.
• Knowledge of Computing and Networking Security Management Processes.
• Knowledge of Red Hat Identity Management (IdM).
• VMware Horizon.
• VMware vSAN.
• Windows Server 2012 & 2016.
• Windows 10 & 7.
• Application Servers JBoss, Tomcat.

Employment Details

• Permanent, Full time.
• Abu Dhabi.