Location:

Vancouver, WA

Description:

We are looking for an IT Systems Engineer to join the IT department of our growing company of talented software engineers and specialists. This position will be located in our Vancouver, WA office.

This position will provide critical support of Jenkon’s internal operations infrastructure, as well as our colocation datacenters. You will be part of a highly skilled IT team that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security. Jenkon is a Microsoft Partner; a successful candidate must have extensive knowledge of MS software, such as Microsoft Server Operating Systems, Hyper-V, IIS, etc., as well as any other software needed to connect Jenkon-built applications to other systems, data, and to our client’s infrastructure. We also provide hosting services to our clients, so experience with enterprise infrastructure is critical. As a DELL partner, we are 100% DELL hardware and software (including DELL/QUEST software), experience with EqualLogic/Compellent, Spotlight, NetVault, etc. is a significant benefit.

Requirements:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Configure, maintain, troubleshoot and optimize SAN storage, switches, server hardware, firewalls and load balancers.
• Maintain security, backup and redundancy strategies in support of a 24 x 7 x 365 customer hosted environment.
• Provisioning of systems for production support and release deployment.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Institute a process for the testing and deployment of systems patches and hotfixes.
• Provides timely and accurate on-call support for systems related issues, which will require some evening and weekend activity.
• Planning and implementing future IT assignments and infrastructure projects.
• Documentation of all new process and systems deployed (Visio experience a plus).
• Provides proactive reporting (metrics) to support ensuring proper compliance with all Service Level Agreements.
• Automate server configurations for all roles, products and environments.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of practical experience
• B.S. in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Expertise with installation, configuration and support of Windows Server 2012/2012-R2, Hyper-V and WFCS is required (MCSA/MCSE Windows Server 2012/R2 is preferred).
• Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP).
• Strong expertise with enterprise level SAN Storage, servers, and networking (DELL hardware experience is a plus).
• Strong experience working within a Windows Server/Active Directory/Exchange environment.
• Strong proficiency in configuring, deploying and troubleshooting all of the following networking services: HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, VPNs, VLANs, VIPs, ACLs, Routing, Switching.

Desired

Practical experience supporting Microsoft SQL 2008R2/2014 in an enterprise production environment (this is not a DBA role, but we work very closely with MS SQL 2008R2/2014 environments).

Experience with Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise.

Experience with NetVault Backup solutions.

Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, Exchange Online).

Automation scripting (Batch, SQL, PowerShell).

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