Senior Systems Administrator - 3561

PURPOSE - Barnhart is built on a strong foundation of serving others. The fruit of our labor is used to grow the company, care for our employees, and serve those in our communities and around the world.

MINDS OVER MATTER - Barnhart has built a nationwide reputation for solving problems. We specialize in the lifting, heavy-rigging, and heavy transport of major components used in American industry.

NETWORK - Barnhart has built teams that form one of our industry's strongest networks of talent and resources with over 60 branch locations across the U.S. working together to serve our customers. This growing network offers our team members constant opportunity for career growth and professional development.

CULTURE - Barnhart has a strong team culture -- the "One TEAM." We are looking for smart, hard-working people who strive for excellence in their work and appreciate collaboration. Join a team that values Safety, Servant Leadership, Quality Service, Innovation, Continuous Improvement, Fairness, and Profit with a Purpose.

Job Description:

• Proactively plan, test, and implement upgrades for our information systems
• Integrate new software applications
• Manage devices on our network through Active Directory
• Manage user access
• Assist with virtualization
• Configure hardware
• Develop and apply best practices
• Support Information Security best practices
• Resolve technical issues
• Coordinate with vendors as needed
• Develop and implement project plans, risk assessments and contingency plans
• Design and implement monitoring, configuration management and reporting functions that will make a hands-off environment
• Define and document best practices and support procedures
• Provide after-hours support for Infrastructure related emergencies as well occasional weekend maintenance
• Assist with hardware, firewall, telecom, hardware and software vendor evaluation, recommendation and negotiations
• Mentor / cross train team members on existing and new technologies
• Carry out special tasks at Management's direction
• Interact with customers and staff at the technical level, as required.
• Other duties as assigned
• Support Disaster Recovery planning, testing and execution.
• Provide technical leadership on acquisition initiatives

Qualifications:

• Experience with Active Director/LDAP user and group administration
• Flexible and able to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Must be organized and have the ability to manage projects of varying length
• Positive, self motivated individual who can complete tasks independently
• Must be a team player
• Must be able to lead a team in developing best practices and implementing improvements within organization.
• Able to analyze large, complex data sets using a variety of software tools to implement results to the Operations Team
• Excellent collaboration, verbal and written communication skills
• Good interpersonal and presentation skills for interaction with all levels of management
• Ability to maintain written documentation of daily activities
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Minimum 5+ years experience supporting production environment

EOE/AA Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran