Director of Information Systems

The Director of System Administration will oversee all aspects of our systems administration functions, including infrastructure design, implementation, maintenance, and support. This role requires strong leadership abilities, technical expertise in systems administration, and a strategic mindset to align IT initiatives with business goals.

Also serves as a mentor to all levels of the System Administration staff.

• This person will have 5-7 direct reports
• Contract to Hire (6 months to hire) with excellent benefits
• Hybrid schedule

Technical Skills

A Solution architect with skills or adaptiveness to the products and technologies expressed below. Ability to communicate, lead, manage, and organize multiple streams of work and tasks with little to no guidance or support. Driven and looking for modern solutions to support issues and problems within a System Administration role and field of individual.

• AWS
• Azure
• ADFS
• Active Directory
• SFTP
• M365
• VMWare
• Isilon
• Data Domain
• VXRail
• Intune
• MECM

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions:

• Provides effective leadership to the department/team.
• Able to strategically identify, internalize and communicate the critical success factors necessary for the department/team to support organizational goals.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and understanding of unit/team technical skill sets and processes.
• Serves as an effective communicator of the organization's vision and goals and the department's role in achieving those.
• Expresses ideas clearly and effectively (gaining agreement and/or understanding), by adjusting language, terminology and style to the characteristics and needs of the audience as well as the venue for the communication.
• Manages his/her responsibilities in a way that supports the achievement of departmental/team goals.
• Works effectively with others in the management team to accomplish organizational goals and to identify and resolve problems at the departmental level.
• Skillfully administers, directs and allocates all organizational resources.
• Plans and coordinates the execution of functional and system testing for projects and impacted legacy systems to ensure business requirements are met with no impact to system integrity.
• Ensures adequate implementation team, end-user, super-user, and vendor/consultant involvement in the testing process.
• Oversees current information on the systems functionality with common trouble shooting tips in the designated knowledge base.
• Keeping current vendor and system data owner’s contact information in the designated location.
• Maintaining current system configuration and maintenance schedules updated.
• Maintaining a copy of current training materials for the system.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• He did say that experience will trump a degree in this field.
• 7 years of proven experience in a senior-level systems administration role, along with proven leadership or managerial experience
• Strong technical expertise in system administration, including but not limited to server administration, network infrastructure, virtualization, cloud services, and cybersecurity.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with executives, stakeholders, and technical teams.