System's Administrator/ System's Analyst - Columbus, Ohio - Opportunity to Make a Difference

Job Title: System's Analyst
Location: Columbus, OH Hybrid in office 3 days a week
Contract Type: Contract to Hire

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Frequently work with outside vendor representatives and technical teams that interface with internal applications
• Will be in a on-call rotation supporting applications 24/7
• Provides technical support to programming and operations areas.
• Works with other systems programmers to develop, install, modify, and maintain the operation system, software products and/or subsystems for network management, performance, and capacity management.
• Leads the testing, debugging and modifications of software applications and validates their efficient use and integration.
• Supports complex computer software such as utility programs, job control language, macros, and subroutines.
• Provides technical advice on the operating system and subsystems including performance monitoring and measurement activity.
• Assists with the training of less experienced Systems Programmers.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• 5+ years knowledge and/or experience in a Windows and UNIX environment
• Understanding of job schedulers to create jobs including tasks and processes.
• Knowledge/experience with version control practices and version control tools
• Good understanding of IT system administration best practices
• Good understanding of JVMs
• Good understanding of Oracle and SQL databases and writing queries
• Comfortable with at least one type of shell scripting (Power Shell,KSH, Bash, Perl, WLS, etc.)
• Understanding of System change control processes.
• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of related experience working in an IT environment providing production support for vendor applications with experience in installing, maintaining, and managing multiple applications/systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to balance both development and support roles.
• Experience in working on projects that involve business segments.
• Strong interpersonal skills, focus on customer service, and the ability to work well with other IT, vendor, and business groups.
• Excellent communication, design, documentation, analytical, and SDLC skills
• Excellent communication, design, documentation, analytical skills
• Zena experience
• Providing production support for vendor applications with experience in installing, maintaining, and managing multiple applications/systems.
• Knowledge and/or experience in a Windows and UNIX environment
• Understanding of job schedulers to create jobs including tasks and processes.
• Experience using monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Zenoss, Splunk, and log files to evaluate the health of mission critical production applications and to identify root causes for performance and functional issues.