Infrastructure Systems Engineer

The Systems Engineer plays a key role in providing creativedynamic solutions for a variety of needs at the City of Cedar Rapids. The city maintains a highly availableenvironment requiring coordination with local departments and providingcritical services. As a customercentricDivision of the City IT staff must display the highest levels of professionalism teamwork and flexibility.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Collaborate with IT City management and leadersto assess near and longterm virtualization capacity needs with financiallysound solutions.
• Act as project lead in the design and review ofnew services applications and hardware; conduct capacity planning as needed.
• Coordinate and collaborate with networkengineering business application and database administration function toensure availability reliability and scalability of servers and cloud servicesto meet business demands.
• Develop implement and maintain policiesprocedures and associated training plans for systems administration usageand disaster recovery.
• Serve as cornerstone for escalating serverissues; provide timely response to customer escalations.
• Perform file system configuration andmanagement; define and perform server backups and recovery procedures.
• Plan and implement server upgrades softwareupgrades maintenance fixes and vendorsupplied patches and coordinate thoseefforts with System Engineer and applications team.
• Monitor and test system performance and provideperformance statistics and reports.
• Create shell scripts as required.
• Manage all cloudbased backoffice services andprovide integration support for all other cloudbased services.
• Recommend and execute modifications to serverenvironment to improve efficiency reliability and performance.
• Manage and/or provide guidance to junior membersof the team.

• MINIMUM ENTRANCE QUALIFICATIONS

• Microsoft Certified Professional or higher

• COMPETENCIES FOR SUCCESSFULPERFORMANCE OF JOB DUTIES

  At least five years equivalent work experiencein a senior technical analytical position responsible for managing serverenvironments.
  • Experience implementing a new ESX clustermigrating clusters decommissioning hosts updating VMware tools and buildinga new vCenter.
  • Advanced knowledge of the following: WindowsServer Active Directory RedHat SharePoint and MS Teams.
  • Not required but beneficial if familiar with;VEEAM.
  • Experience with server performance tuning andmonitoring tools.
  • Ability to follow the Citys change managementpolicy.
  • Working technical knowledge of scripting codeusing VBScript Command Shell PowerShell or related tools.
  • Knowledge of applicable data privacy practicesand laws.