Sr Systems Administrator

TransCore (TRN), a subsidiary of ST Engineering, is seeking a full-time Sr Systems Administrator to join our team in Houston, Texas.

Job Description:   The Sr Systems Administrator position provides day-to-day technical support for existing customer installations as well as new deployments of proprietary multi-server tolling applications. Responsible for working both independently and in coordination with the help desk to resolve issues in a timely manner. Communicates highly technical information to both technical and nontechnical personnel.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Responds to requests via the helpdesk in the most expedient manner possible.


• Provides troubleshooting and repair for moderate network solutions.


• Quickly identifies and repairs common problems


• Evaluates interface between users, hardware and software, and operational and performance requirements of overall desktop system.


• Maintains servers, user accounts.


• Daily system maintenance review, such as systems log, antivirus server logs, etc.


• Provides monitoring and reports of the operational status of LAN/WAN environment as needed.


• Interacts with vendors.


• Installs and configures Server hardware.


• Recommends the acquisition or new hardware and/or software as needed.

Education:  Associates degree from a two-year college or technical school or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Required Skills & Experience: 

• 10+ years of Systems Administrator experience


• Expert implementing Hyper-V Virtual machines on a failover cluster


• Advanced Administration and setup of Dell Storage


• Must be able to work well in a stressful situation such as an entire system malfunction.


• Experience implementing and administrating failover clusters


• Knowledge of Networking (understanding LAN/WAN, Cisco products)


• Experience troubleshooting Windows Server (2008 or higher)


• File Transfer Protocol server experience


• VPN knowledge


• Microsoft SQL database understanding


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desired Skills: 

• HP/Dell server experience


• Extensive working knowledge of Windows operating systems


• Experience troubleshooting Active Directory


• WSUS Experience


• SolarWinds Experience


• System Center experience


• CrowdStrike implementation