Systems Administrator I

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

Job Summary:   The Systems Administrator I 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.

• Perform server administration tasks, including user/group administration, security permissions, group policies, research event log warnings and errors, and resource monitoring, ensuring system architecture components work together seamlessly


• Install and configure software and hardware


• Maintains servers, user accounts.


• Monitor datacenter health using preexisting management tools and respond to hardware issues as they arise; help build, test, and maintain new servers as needed


• Maintain internal infrastructure requirements including servers, switches, firewalls, security updates, LANs, WANs


• Report an alerts to other team members and help repair if needed.


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


• Interact with the other teams to assist in troubleshooting, identify root cause, and provide technical support when needed


• Perform routine/scheduled audits of the systems


• Provides troubleshooting and repair for moderate network solutions.

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

Required Skills & Experience: 

• 3+ years of Systems Administrator experience


• Some knowledge of Hyper-V Virtual machines


• File Transfer Protocol server experience


• Experience troubleshooting Windows Server (2008 or higher)


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desired Skills & Experience: 

• HP/Dell server experience


• Knowledge of computer operating systems


• Troubleshooting Active Directory


• Hyper-V Experience machines on a failover cluster


• WSUS Experience


• SolarWinds experience, but not required