Principal Systems Administrator Enterprise Systems

What You Need To Know

 

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

 

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

 

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

 

The Principal Systems Administrator Enterprise Systems is responsible for the end-to-end management and support of equipment/software by ensuring the environment(s) are patched, right sized and available for the business.  The Administrator will partner with peer administrative teams to maintain standards, gold images, environment documentation and configuration management.  Also, responsible for proactively monitoring of system capacity, utilization, and performance to avoid negative business impact.  The Administrator provides support for the environments they support.

Specialized Skills and Technologies

 

• Experience with on-premise implementation and management of Infrastructure as Coode IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Experience with developer tools such as GitHub
• Experience using patch management solution such as Microsoft SCCM (MECM)
• Experience in an environment supporting 300+ production Microsoft Windows servers
• Experience in providing support and maintenance of Linux operating systems
• Experience supporting VMware and Hyper-V Virtual Infrastructures
• Experience supporting server hardware platforms such as: HPE, Dell, Cisco UCS 
• Experience supporting cloud infrastructures such as: Azure, AWS
• Experience supporting and tuning administration tools such as SolarWinds & MS SCOM
• Experience supporting and configuring F5 or NetScaler load balancers
• Experience with identity governance administration (IGA) tools such as Saviynt

Primary Responsibilities

 

• 6+ years experience
• Stay current on supported technologies through various training opportunities
• Identify opportunities to enhance processes, procedures and policies relating to administrative function
• Participate in on call rotation
• Provide accurate and timely updates to work
• Improve the service offered to our business partners
• Proactively work on continuous improvement by identifying cost reductions and productivity improvements
• Create measures for successful execution, including policies, processes, procedures, and controls
• Implement, enforce, and improve policies, processes, procedures, and controls 
• Maintain system landscape documentation
• Ensure effective administration of, and compliance with, all internal processes, procedures, and controls
• Communicate effectively up and down the organizational hierarchy
• Implement continuous improvement measures and initiatives
• Monitor and work on issues
• Research, evaluate and recommend applications 
• Monitors, troubleshoots, and maintains systems / hardware / software and uses remote monitoring tools
• Monitors usage of shared resources, and works with appropriate engineers to resolve issues related to malfunctions 
• Provide coaching and mentorship of team members and peers
• Partner with engineering team to develop turnover documentation for steady state support 
• Make recommendations to enhance processes, procedures and policies relating to administrative function
• Act as an escalation point to team members when manager is not available
• Operates at highest level of support within the administration function engaging with ETP teams or vendor for support and resolutio