Job Information
Yakima County R2103 System Administrator II/III in Yakima, Washington
Classification: System Administrator II/III
Job Req: R2103
Department: Technology Services
Hours/Week: 40
Union: Technology Services Teamsters
Pay Range:
System Administrator II - $37.99 - $48.18 per hour (Teamsters Pay Plan IT44, Step 1-13) System Administrator III - $42.55 - $53.96 per hour (Teamsters Pay Plan IT45, Step 1-13)
Hiring Range:
System Administrator II - $37.99 - $40.31 per hour (Teamsters Pay Plan IT44, Step 1-4 DOQ) System Administrator III - $42.55 - $45.15 per hour (Teamsters Pay Plan IT45, Step 1-4 DOQ)
Open Date: 04/10/2024
Close Date: Open Until Filled
Overview:
The Yakima County Technology Services department has immediate opening for a System Administrator II or III level. The Technology Administrator - Server Administrator plays a critical role in managing and maintaining the County's IT infrastructure. The primary focus of this role is to ensure the efficient and reliable operation of servers, network systems, and related hardware and software components. The Server Administrator is responsible for configuring, deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing servers to meet the County's performance, security, and availability requirements. These positions performs intermediate, or advanced technical research, analysis, and support.
Benefits included in position:
Health Care Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life and Basic LTD)
Retirement Benefits
Paid Vacation
Paid Holidays
Paid Sick Leave
Note: This is a Technology Services Teamsters Contract Bargaining Unit Position.
This recruitment may be used to fill future vacancies that occur within 90 days of the closing of this position. (This excludes Yakima County Sheriff's Office and Department of Corrections)
Responsibilities:
Essential Duties:
Installs, configures, secures, manages, and monitors VMWare/vSphere ESXi clusters as well as physical servers in all county locations. Configures, manages, and monitors virtual storage environments. Administers, monitors, and configures guest hosts within vCenter. Coordinates and/or helps install application software where necessary. Executes and monitors routine backup and disaster recovery processes. Manages cloud based services (e.g. Intune, Azure, Exchange, SCCM, etc.) Supports internal and external user administration, permissions, and access.
Works as a team to develop technology disaster recovery plans, strategic plans, and security plans for the server, cloud, and datacenter environments.
Research, test, and recommend new server hardware, Server Virtualization environments, Operating Systems and Data Backup Management, Explores technical solutions for business issues. Investigates how existing technology can be modified for new applications. Gathers and studies various resources to maintain expertise in multiple technical areas.
Utilizes problem solving to trouble shoot, analyze and resolve county wide server, data center and virus issues. Provides senior level hardware, server virtualization environments and operating system expertise, consultation, leadership and training to other Technology Services staff. Advises Manager regarding proposed solutions.
Coordinates resources related the projects assigned including team member. Supervises technical team members. Monitors and evaluates performance by Technology Services "team" and outside contractors.
Determines, develops, modifies, and maintai