Sr. System Administrator

Company Description

Summit Electric Supply is an electrical distributor keeping current with innovative changes in the way our world is powered. With over 40 years of continuous growth in a $110 billion industry, you can count on Summit's stability. Summit will provide the tools you need, along with your commitment to customer service and drive to excel, to have a successful career in electrical supply distribution. 

Job Description

Role Summary: The Sr System Administrator is responsible for the administration, implementation, and architecture of technology solutions for Summit’s internal and external customers. The Sr System Administrator will partner directly with cross functional teams and stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes that adhere to internal and external policies and frameworks. The Sr Systems Administrator will primarily work with Microsoft, VMware and Hyperconverged platforms and services in a multi-cloud environment.

Principal Accountabilities: (essential job functions)

• Provide systems administration and engineering support for Summit applications and services running in multi-cloud environments with multiple SaaS providers in a majority Windows environment.
• Oversee the Summit cloud application portfolio including Microsoft M365, Microsoft Azure, and Cisco Cloud
• Implementation and management of high-profile projects, often concurrently
• Ensure maximum uptime of Summit’s IT assets including, but not limited to, Active Directory, VMware vSphere, HP HCI, HP Nimble storage, FortiGate Firewalls, Cisco Networking, ERP and related systems, External and Intranet websites, Email Security and Phishing
• Ensure recoverability of Summit IT assets in accordance with Disaster Recovery and backup objectives using Zerto and Rubrik
• Perform regular audits and reviews of security posture and risks in accordance with new and existing policies in collaboration with Summit information security team.
• Regularly review Summit technology portfolio and recommend solutions or projects to improve performance, reliability, or security
• Serve as the final escalation point for support requests.
• Provide infrequent after-hours support and engineering in support of active projects.
• Collaborate and engage with 3rd party vendors for ongoing support and projects.
• Creation and maintenance of documentation, including runbooks, diagrams, and knowledgebase articles.
• Mentoring and information sharing with other members of the IT Team to support collaboration and career growth

Qualifications

Essential Skills and Experience

• B.S in Computer Science or related field, or 6+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Expert Experience with Windows operating systems operating on VMware vSphere and Azure
• Experience supporting Windows domain services such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Group Policy, NPS and Certificate Services.
• Strong experience with Microsoft M365/O365, and email security technologies such as email security gateways and phishing response platforms
• Knowledge of backup platforms and procedures in a virtualized environment using platforms such as Azure Site Recovery, Rubrik or Cohesity
• Intermediate to expert knowledge of core datacenter technologies such as VMware vSphere, Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery, and Cisco networking infrastructure.
• Intermediate understanding of network technologies and principles.
• Experience with different cloud technologies and services, including IaaS, SaaS and PaaS cloud services.
• Experience supporting database systems such as Microsoft SQL, Postgres, and MySQL.
• Must possess strong communication, organization, and teamwork skills with a willingness to learn new technologies and skills.
• Experience automating workflows using PowerShell or other automation and CI tools such as Terraform
• Experience working with ITIL frameworks and processes including incident response handling, change management and asset management.

Beneficial Skills and Experience

• Experience with macOS and Linux operating systems.
• Experience with network and application performance monitoring tools such as PRTG.
• Multi-cloud engineering with AWS, Azure and GCP
• Zerto disaster recovery platform
• Rubrik Data Protect platform or Cohesity.
• Datacenter and branch networking experience using technology such as Cisco Catalyst, ISR or Nexus
• Experience with enterprise firewalls such as Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco FirePower
• Experience working with Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Docker, or other containerization tools.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles
• Experience with SaaS based authe