Senior System Administrator

Senior System Administrator
Houston, TX 77058

Location: Remote; must be local to Houston (30-mile radius)

Anakim Consulting Inc. has an opening for a System Administrator with senior level experience to support our work at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. This position will support day-to-day operation and ongoing support for systems and servers.

Job Description:

• Support for server architecture and configuration
• Apply knowledge of concepts, processes, practices and procedures to support technical requirements
• Support installation, configuration, and maintenance for operating system workstations and servers (virtual, cloud, web servers)
• Perform software installation and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages
• Support installations, upgrades, and maintenance following IT policies
• Ensure workstation/server data integrity evaluating, implementing, and managing SW and HW solutions
• Ensure data/media recoverability following schedule of system backups and database archive operations
• Support media management including offsite storage and retrieval services
• Develop and support Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Conduct hardware and software audits for workstations and servers to meet compliance and configuration policies
• Develop and maintain comprehensive operating system HW and SW configuration database/library for supporting documentation

Responsibilities include:

• Support server architecture and configuration
• Provide day-to-day operational support for systems and servers including event, fault, and performance management
• Develop solutions to monitor, notify, and correct anomalies/alarms
• Evaluate the current architecture and support design for the environment and software layers to provide for a reliable, scalable, secure and highly available Linux environment
• Identify gaps in the Linux environment and use analytical skills and knowledge of problem-solving methodologies to provide solutions
• Lead efforts working closely with systems administrators, database and application administrators/programmers, network engineers/analysts and outside vendors in engineering solutions or resolving problems
• Act as a lead consulting and training resource for server architectural environment
• Provide guidance to systems administrators, network engineers, and network analysts on configuration of server hardware and architecture for application and service requirements
• Participate in meetings and conferences in support of the server architecture and Server Operators working groups
• Lead IR&D efforts to identify new solutions, communicating solutions and progress with Senior and Program Management
• Work closely with vendors or other groups within the organization to correct problems or perform root cause analysis
• Analyze and make formal recommendations on optimization and capacity planning for systems
• Design, develop, and maintain process automation scripts and utilities written in BASH/Python and other programing languages as required
• Develop and maintain documentation related to the design, installation, administration, and maintenance of multiple Linux systems in a distributed computing environment
• Ensure stability, viability and maintenance of the 24/7 mission-critical production environment
• Prepare weekly reports on significant events
• Write test plans and conduct product evaluations in a lab environment
• Support critical incident management, including after-hours support, as required
• Design and maintain a repeatable, documented patch deployment methodology for system administrators to implement
• Diagnose complex performance issues and facilitate recovery of failed systems in accordance with customer Service Level Agreements