Senior System Administrator
Ferguson
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide technical support within the Operations Center to include proactive and reactive incident resolution
- Ensure the quality and delivery of technical operations supporting the business is in accordance with agreed standards
- Provide technical support by collaborating with systems analysts, developers, business analysts, and project teams
- Perform proactive reviews of system performance metrics, logs, and alerts to ensure event correlation and trend analysis are performed on a regular basis
- Provide server and infrastructure support including installation, patching, upgrading, maintenance, and QA of systems per Ferguson standards.
- Manage the creation and maintenance of inventory data for all servers.
- Manage server and service configuration per ticket requests.
- Perform weekly checks on system memory, CPU, disk, NFS, and NTP and fix according to policy.
- Write, execute, and peer review Infrastructure Operations playbooks.
- Ensure team documentation is populated with resolutions, workarounds, known issues.
- Keep up to date with the technologies that are relevant to our work.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to support after hours issues and planned work
- Minimum of 6 years of IT administration experience.
- BA or BS degree preferred.
- Solid experience with the following technologies: Vmware, Windows, Windows Server, Veritas netbackup, Nutanix, HPE OneView, Azure, PowerShell, SCCM, Azure Update Manager, and Active Directory.
- Recent experience and proficiency with Cloud computing platforms, such as Azure, Oracle Cloud, and GCP or AWS.
- Experience with installation, configuration, patching, and support for Windows & Linux environments.
- Experience in an enterprise level production data center environment managing enterprise class servers.
- Experience in proactively supervising system health and reacting accordingly.
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work cross-functionally in a team environment and independently.
- Solid ability to manage time appropriately and effectively prioritize tasks.
- Proficiency in adhering to instructions, while also applying acquired knowledge to exceed those instructions when required.