Linux / VMware System Administrator - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Participate as a member of a small team that works cooperatively to ensure system infrastructure and operating systems are available to support applications.
• Analyze, evaluate, plan, implement, configure, patch, upgrade and tune software and hardware in virtualized, highly available and stand-alone environments.
• Document procedures and update standards for new or modified systems and environments.
• Open required Change Requests, Work and Incident tickets. Follow Change Management policy and Incident resolution timelines. Respond to Change Requests, Work and Incident tickets assigned to team.
• Respond to systems alerts and be part of rotation of after-hours on-call production support.
• Review Red Hat and VMware security notifications and deploy updates if deemed necessary.
• Gather, evaluate, and measure data on performance/capacity and report on key measurements.
• Proactively identify problems and provide solutions to management before implementing change.
• Prevent downtime, increase system availability, monitor performance, manage disk capacity and ensure system security.
• Work well with other IT teams and know their responsibilities.
• Design solutions to technical problems and implementation of new systems or infrastructure changes.
• Monitor critical systems and take corrective actions prior to failures.
• Prepare for disaster recovery and ensure that appropriate backups are completed and tested.
• Troubleshoot software and hardware failures and identify network problems. Open necessary calls with vendors for support, prioritize and escalate.
• Establish and maintain security and integrity controls.
• Performs additional responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 3 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors

Skills:

• System Admin