Senior System Administrator

OBXtek Inc.

OBXtek is an award winning Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business providing information technology and management services to the federal government.  As the prime contractor on over 85% of its work,  OBXtek is a leader in its field and has a robust corporate infrastructure that provides support for all of its programs.  OBXtek has realized exceptional growth over the last four years and has been awarded prime contracts with 10 federal agencies.  This growth is a result of providing customers with successful project execution and quantifiable results, responsive customer service, timely recruiting, quality assurance/quality control and competitive pricing.Solid Financial Resources and low Employee Turnover (5%)

Distributed Infrastructure Design, Configuration and Deployment Support

Purpose:  Support the design, configuration and deployment of  Windows Server 2008/2012 Managed Member Servers (MMSs), Failover Servers (FS1s) and Application Managed Servers (AMSs).

10 + years experience highly preferred

• Install, configure and administer Windows Server 2012.
• Configure advanced Windows Server 2012 roles and services.
• Maintain existing Windows Server 2008 R2 Branch Office infrastructure configuration.
• Install and configure the Hyper-V Server role.
• Deploy and manage a server virtualization environment using Microsoft technologies.
• Coordinate Branch Office server hardware, OS and backup software deployment/refreshment projects.
• System Center product knowledge including Data Protection Manager and Virtual Machine Manager.
• Use Windows PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows based servers.
• Proficiency using Windows PowerShell to automate the management and configuration of virtual infrastructure environments.
• Troubleshoot network protocols.
• Formulate conclusions about the state of the virtualization environment using a third party.
• Monitoring and reporting tools.
• Develop methodologies and practices to manage and plan system capacity based on projected growth rate to ensure that system performance remains at acceptable levels.
• Develop and execute high availability, disaster recovery and failover technology as it pertains to physical and virtual server environments.
• Implement backup and restore strategies for virtual machines.
• Knowledge of networking technologies used in a virtual environment.
• Deploy server images and templates.
• Knowledge of Microsoft’s Distributed File System (DFS). 
• Communicate technical procedures and processes to non-technical users.
• Work with teams, vendors and consultants to determine strategy for complex system changes, upgrades and implementations.
• Participate in problem management reporting, resolution and documentation in Change, Asset and Problem Reporting System (CAPRS).
• Develop server configuration, maintenance and operations documentation.