IT specialist/Windows Administrator

Job Summary

Responsible for installation, operations and maintenance of company’s IT server infrastructure

Duties and responsibilities:

·       Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools

·       Installs and maintains Windows operating systems and servers along with their associated services.

·       Implements/recommends policies on system use and services.

·       Perform day to day maintenance on company Desktops, printers and user problems.

·       Manages LAN switches

·       Server hardware/software upgrade and maintenance

·       Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure

·       Monitoring and troubleshooting critical services for servers

·       Administration and maintenance for server applications such as file sharing, mail, ftp etc for company

·       Participate in the design of information and operational support systems

·       Develop new solution for information management

·       Evaluate technical requirements for new company projects

·       Prepare documentation and user guide tutorials for new applications needed for company staff and/or customers

·       Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies

·       Prepare and applying backup and disaster recovery procedures for servers and PC’s.

·       Maintain web hosting servers and services

·       Update operational log files for servers

·       Update CMDB files as per company policy

·       Hardware/software upgrade and maintenance for all company pc’s

·       Printer/scanner/photocopies maintenance

·       Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability

·       Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes

·       Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks

·       Provide remote and on-site support to staff and other departments

·       Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution

Educational Background: University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant area
Post – Graduate Degree Optional
Windows training certification strongly advised

Professional Experience: 3 or more years work experience in a relative functional area
Skills and Ability: 

·       Strong inter-personal and communication skills; capable of writing purchase justifications, and interacting positively with upper management.

·       Independent problem solving; self-direction.

·       To be comfortable with most aspects of Windows systems administration; for example, configuration of mail systems, system installation and configuration, printing systems, fundamentals of security, installing third-party software.

·       Proven working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows based environments.

·       Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware, Virtualbox)

·       Experience with monitoring systems (e.g. Nagios, Cacti)

·       Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)

·       A solid understanding of Windows client/server operating systems; understands Active Directory, devices and what device drivers do, Outlook/Exchange messaging.

·       Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts; file sharing, DNS, basic network routing concepts.

·       Ability to write scripts in some administrative language.

Optional

·       Experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks (e.g., ASP.Net, Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Ruby, NGINX)

·       Private/Public Cloud experience

·       Experience with automation software (e.g., Puppet, cfengine, Chef)

·       Solid scripting skills (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)

·       Ability to identify tasks which require automation and automate them.

·       A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts; understands principles of routing, client/server programming, the design of consistent network-wide file system layouts.

Other

·       Excellent verbal and written communications.

·       Fluent in English

Interested and qualified candidates should submit a CV not later than 15 March 2020 to: hr@corp.tring.al.
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
Please specify the position you are applying for on the head of the e-mail.