Sr Systems Administrator

**TransCore (TRN), a subsidiary of ST Engineering, is seeking a talented Sr. Systems Administrator to join our team in Houston, Texas.** **Summary**The Senior Systems Administrator position provides day-to-day advanced technical support for existing customer installations as well as new deployments of proprietary multi-server tolling applications. This role will be responsible for working both independently and in coordination with the regional support teams to resolve issues in a timely manner. Communicating highly technical information to both technical and nontechnical personnel is a key part of this role and responsibility of the Senior Systems Administrator. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities** Include the following. Other duties may be assigned. - Oversee servers, storage, networks, databases to maintain high availability and performance - Provides troubleshooting and repair for moderate network solutions. - Quickly identifies and repairs common problems. - Implement and maintain backup and disaster recovery strategies, including regular testing and recovery drills - Enforce security policies, configure firewalls, and apply security controls to protect systems and data - Monitor for vulnerabilities and implement remediation measures. - Ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational standards. - Evaluates interface between users, hardware and software, and operational and performance requirements of overall server systems. - Maintains servers and user accounts. - Enforce security policies, configure firewalls, and apply security controls to protect systems and data - Daily system maintenance review, such as systems log, antivirus server logs, etc. - Provides monitoring and reports of the operational status of LAN/WAN environment as needed. - Interacts with vendors. - Install, configure, and upgrade hardware and software, including operating systems, virtualization platforms, and database systems - Recommends the acquisition of new hardware and/or software as needed. - Monitor system health, capacity, and performance; act on alerts to prevent outages - Perform capacity planning to anticipate growth and optimize resource allocation. - Investigate and resolve incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and document corrective actions - Manage service requests and meet defined service level targets. - Automate repetitive tasks and workflows to improve consistency and reduce manual effort - Lead infrastructure projects, upgrades, and migrations with minimal business impact - Follow approved change control processes and collaborate with stakeholders to align technical solutions with business requirements. - Maintain accurate technical documentation, runbooks, and configuration records - Share knowledge and mentor junior administrators to raise team capability. - Manage vendor relationships, renewals, and support contracts - Mentor other System Administrators on the team **Requirements and Qualifications**To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. - **Deep expertise** in Windows environments, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, PowerShell, and scripting - Associate degree from a two-year college or technical school or equivalent combination of education and work experience. - 15+ years of Systems Administrator experience - Advanced experience implementing Hyper-V Virtual machines in a failover cluster - Advanced Administration and setup of Dell Storage. - Must be able to work well in a stressful situation such as an entire system malfunction. - Advanced experience implementing and administrating Microsoft Failover Clusters **(A Must)** - Knowledge of Networking (understanding LAN/WAN, Palo Alto, Cisco products) - Advanced experience troubleshooting Windows Server (2008 or higher) - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - HP/Dell server experience - Advanced e…