System Administrator, Senior- job post Linamar Corporation
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Systems Administrator
Job Summary
Under minimal supervision, responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining servers, in support of business processing requirements. Perform software installations and upgrade operating systems and layered software packages. Schedule installations and upgrade and maintain them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures. Monitor and tune systems to achieve optimum performance levels. Ensure server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions. Ensure data/media recoverability by implementing disaster recovery systems and testing to ensure they function nominally. Develop and promote standard operating procedures and policies. Develop and maintain a comprehensive operating system hardware and software configuration database/library of all supporting documentation. Complete tasks and projects assigned within timelines established to meet the needs of the business. Provide Tier 3 support to all other SA’s and mentor the team in technical areas. Research and provide insight into new solutions and processes to help streamline operations and reduce downtimes and increase productivity.
Responsibility
Under minimal supervision, responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining operating system of servers, virtual and physical.
Support global systems within Corporate IT maintaining a 99.99% SLA/Uptime this includes but not limited to, AD/DNS/O365/Azure/Server Hardware/Storage Hardware/File Storage/DB Servers/App Servers/Virtual Hosts/VMs.
Ensure adequate monitoring and tuning of Corporate IT systems, to maintain a proactive approach to systems reducing outages.
Support hardware solutions and replace systems as per end-of-life recommendations and hardware failures as they arise.
Follow best practice Change Management as set out by Corporate IT policies, from planning implementation, implementing solutions, documenting back out plans individually or in a large team environment.
Identify systems that require attention for security reasons and implement best practices. Review security of systems on a regular basis.
Disaster recovery planning of existing systems, new systems. Test disaster recovery procedures on an annual basis, documenting implementation steps and recording outcomes. Corrective measures to the disaster recovery plans if so required.
