Principal Systems Administrator

Your Impact:

The Principal Systems Administrator is primary source for Infrastructure support of all commercial environments for any day-to-day operations issues, and for the upcoming projects/setups. On any given workday he/she may be responsible for all, or any subset of Systems, Hardware and Platforms, ensuring proper prioritization of activities and coordination/communication of these activities with management, next tier support organizations, including Engineering and their respective peers

• Build Virtual Machines & Physical Machines per Standard setups
• Systems performance tuning and Administration
• Migrations, Upgrades and Patching the Systems and their Firmware
• Participate in Change management meetings, Readiness Reviews, Engineering/Comm Ops meetings, etc. as required to fulfill team responsibilities.
• Fulfillment of team responsibilities may require, from time to time, working outside of normally scheduled shift time to complete projects, maintenance and/or meet business commitments.
• Working cross functionally with the NOC (Tier I), Engineering and Deployment teams is critically important for the success of the larger organization.
• Fully support the Change Management, Release Management, Problem Management and Ops PMO activities/projects.
• Respond to Incident calls, joining conference bridges and MOCs.
• Proactively drive and troubleshooting issues.
• Assist Tier 1, troubleshoot and perform supportive actions as requested by subject matter experts/ Engineering.
• Position needs to participate on scheduled Systems Maintenance activities during off hours/weekends, and on call rotation.

• 15+ years of experience in Systems Administration and supporting Commercial environments.
• B.S / B.E. in computer Science or equivalent.
• Operating Systems: Advanced administrations skills on red hat Linux, Windows, and Systems Performance tuning
• Experience Working on VMware, NetBackup, Citrix, F5 load balancers, DNS, Networking, systems performance tuning
• Expertise on PowerShell scripting, shell scripting, Perl Scripting and Python scripting.
• Knowledge of Incident, Change & Problem Management/ticketing systems (HP SM)
• Desirable additional experience working on Storage Systems, San Switches, ESX Clusters
• Good analyzing & communication skills, self-motivated and passionate
• Systems Admin experience on Private Cloud infra setup and GPC & AWS infrastructure setups.
• Experience in developing and Deploying Ansible playbooks by integrating with Linux administration modules
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code
• Ability to troubleshoot issues in high pressure situations, resolving problems in a timely manner and keeping stake holders involved/updated