This role of System Administrator Infrastructure is to maintain the server and storage environment by identifying system requirements, provisioning new systems, installing upgrades, managing hardware, software maintenance and licensing. The System Infrastructure team is responsible for all physical and virtual server infrastructure, storage arrays, and backups across all Paycom datacenters. As a System Administrator you will collaborate with the team in the architecture, configuration, and maintenance of all system infrastructure projects, tools and processes, as well as participate in troubleshooting, remediation, and documentation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build, maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot virtual machines, physical servers and storage appliances

• Install and configure hardware & software

• Work support tickets assigned to the System Infrastructure team

• Monitor system performance and logs and provide reports for managements awareness into the technical health of Paycom's infrastructure

• Develop team documentation for day to day duties and gained team knowledge

• Keep systems properly configured, updated, healthy, hardened and scaled to meet the needs of the business

• Work with various technology teams to pro-actively evaluate DR plans, backup requirements, and failover procedures

• Be responsible for and act as subject matter expert on any assigned systems.

Qualifications

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor’s degree

Experience:

• 2+ years of professional IT experience

• 2+ years supporting workstations, servers and/or storage systems

Skills/Abilities:

• Working knowledge of virtualization technologies such as VMware vCenter/ESXi

• Linux or Windows server administration – applying patches, ensuring health, right-sizing, ensuring quality DR architecture, and troubleshooting problems

• Familiar with backup and recovery software

• Familiar with Server and Storage hardware and current technology tends

• Knowledge of Networking/Firewall architecture and technologies

• PowerShell or similar command line tools used to manage and automate

• Using a log aggregation tool, such as Splunk for troubleshooting and reporting

• Data retention and capacity planning

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Info Sys, Computer Science, or related fields

• VMware VCP

• MTA/MCSE

Experience:

• Experience architecting highly available solutions

• Linux installations and configurations

Skills/Abilities:

• Experience with VDI/VMware Horizon

• Multi-node system (HA) architecture planning and design

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