Gables Search Group Hiring for Data Center Administrator Job at Germantown, TN Full Time

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

Our 50+ year old client is a diversified products company with 10k+ employees and 60+ locations across two continents. Their products are used in home construction, repair and remodeling, industrial applications, and more. They provide a stable work environment, career development opportunities, competitive pay, bonus, 401(k) with match, a culture that strongly believes in promoting from within, a casual work environment and so much more! This is an on-site position, located in Germantown, TN (near Memphis). Relocation assistance is provided for non-local professionals.

If you are interested in working for a company that offers both a challenging work environment and a rewarding career path, read on!

THE ROLE

The Data Center Administrator will be responsible for managing and maintaining the data center environment. The Data Center Administrator will be accountable for provisioning new hardware, the day-to-day health of the Company’s data centers as well as ensuring their security through patching, firmware updates and physical access controls. Responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Contribute to the Company’s long-term strategic planning, including infrastructure as a service and cloud services migration.
• Manage and ensure the integrity of host computers, storage systems, and Virtualization systems while meeting service levels.
• Analyze, diagnosis, and resolve complex datacenter, Application computing problems, and implement corrective solutions.
• Setup, perform, monitor, and troubleshoot system backups and disaster recovery mechanisms.
• Analyze system or application usage and plan for growth or increases in system capacity.
• Follow industry and product trends, publications and best practices and provide input when developing strategies.
• Schedule, and perform software improvements, upgrades, and/or purchases.
• Create and Maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, mapping, processes, and service records.
• Administer and maintain user accounts, permissions, and access rights.
• Identify and analyze opportunities for migration of physical servers and applications to the cloud.
• Perform backups and disaster recovery

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience
• Minimum two years of experience in system administration
• Must be able to quickly identify the scope and impact of incidents at both the enterprise and divisional levels to determine an appropriate response
• Demonstrable knowledge in majority of the following technologies: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Azure, NetApp, Veeam, VMWare, Citrix, Linux
• Experience with HPE and Dell equipment
• Highly organized with the ability to deal with unexpected or urgent issues.
• Previous experience with Azure desirable.
• Local to Germantown, TN or willing to relocate with company assistance. (local candidates preferred)
• Must be legally authorized to work in the USA without any form of sponsorship