Job description

The Systems Administrator is responsible for user management, managing IT infrastructure, systems, applications, and operations procedures, with a focus on automation wherever appropriate. Areas of focus for automation include routine tasks, monitoring and notification creation, error recovery to meet 99.9% 24/7 uptime requirements for all resources that make up our Microsoft Azure Production and UAT environments. Responsibilities will include timely issue resolution for production interruptions; maintenance of operating systems and applications through patches or upgrades; and reporting of all issues to management and key stakeholders.

Candidate must have strong communication and technical skills as well as the ability to work well in a team environment and prioritize automation over manual actions. They must possess a desire to gain a deeper understanding of how each system and technology reacts to environmental changes and how this impacts usability. The ability to handle aggressive timelines and focus under pressure is a must.

Monitoring:

• Monitor system health, performance and capacity
• Identify new checks to proactively notify impending system or environment failures or capacity limitations
• Use automation and scripting to create self-healing systems

Maintenance:

• Manage system availability to performance standards
• Manage proactive maintenance schedules
• Create tools and systems to eliminate repetitive, tedious or error-prone tasks

User Management:

• Create, modify and delete users in Active Directory
• Follow our user access policies when modifying users’ roles
• Assist with password resets and troubleshooting access·

Security and Compliance:

• Ensure managed environments follow our client’s Information Security Policy
• Support SOC 2 Type II and PCI Level 1 compliance

Requirements:

• Windows server system administration & operations experience - 2+ years
• Bash or PowerShell scripting experience, 1-2 years
• Experience supporting 24x7 production services
• Bachelor’s Degree and 3+ years of related work experience
• Experience with automated tools such as Ansible
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated with attention to detail
• Desire to continuously learn
• Strong problem-solving skills with focus on risk management and planning
• Ability to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation

Preferred:

• Preferred cloud experience with a focus on PaaS and Cloud Native offerings, 1-2 years
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure (security groups, peering, routing, VPNs, load balancers, etc)
• Cloud certification
• Computer Science degree
• Experience with PKI Infrastructures, server certificates, certificate authorities.
• Experience working in a change-controlled environment

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: €50,000.00-€55,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Limerick, County Limerick: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

• Ireland (required)

Reference ID: SA - TR CS - 0922

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