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Lummi Indian Business Council System Administrator in Bellingham, Washington
JOB SUMMARY: The System Administrator is responsible for installation, configuration, provisioning, operation, and maintenance of Lummi Indian Business Council's systems hardware and software. This individual performs technical research to ensure that system hardware, operating systems and software systems advance to meet future needs. They participate on projects with other staff and vendors to assess, design and implement systems related technologies. This individual is accountable for servers that support a multitude of infrastructure types including security, mail, print, file, database, and application systems. The System Administrator schedules, performs, and monitors file and system backups, restores and recovery. They are responsible for virtual machine hosts and guest management tasks in both production and development environments. The System Administrator will be required to perform and assist other staff in diagnosing and solving system related interruptions or performance problems.
BENEFITS: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Life Insurance, Annual, Sick Leave, Lummi Fitness Center Membership and 19 Paid Holidays. After successfully completing 90-day orientation.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following, and other related duties as assigned.
- Establish server specifications by working with users, analyzing workflow and assessing security requirements
- Plan, install, configure, and test server hardware, operating systems and software applications
- Define, propose and enforce server operation policies and procedures
- Maintain system operation, up-time, and stability through analysis and performance tuning
- Troubleshoot server hardware, operating systems and software applications
- Work with staff and vendors to resolve server, operating system and software application issues
- Develop secure server access, monitoring and control
- Manage back-up schedules and storage
- Maintain and test disaster recovery policies and procedures
- Identify complex system problems, review logs and support documentation, implement solutions
- Produce and maintain systems design and operation documentation
- Provide technical reference and support materials for staff and vendors
- Work with staff, vendors developers and manufactures to perform system upgrades.
- Evaluate, install, and test new hardware, operating systems and software applications
- Provision and maintain server vitalization and storage environments
- Administer enterprise end-point protection servers and policies
- Maintain hardware, operating system and software application subscription updates and renewals
- Submit quotes to supervisor for budget or expenditure purposes
- Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications and participating in professional organizations
- Protects organization's servers and data compliant with HIPAA and CJIS standard policies
- Explore opportunities incorporate new technologies into existing server environment.
- Prepare quarterly and annual project reports for department management
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
High School Diploma or GED
AA or AAS in a computer or science field
8 years of experience in an information technology system administration
OR; Eight (8) years' progressive advancement within an information technology department such as;
Two (2) years' experience as Helpdesk or Administrative Assistant in an information technology department or equivalent position AND;
Two (2) years' experience as Computer Support Technician I or equivalent position AND;
Two (2) years' experience as Computer Support Technician II or equivalent position