Senior System Administrator
2401 E 86th St, Bloomington, MN 55425, USA
Req #1607
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Bold Thinking. World Changing. At SkyWater, our ingenuity helps improve lives around the world by manufacturing U.S. made semiconductors that are essential ingredients of modern life. Automotive safety enhancements, life-saving medical devices, consumer electronics and American security require semiconductors. Working in our Minnesota headquarters or Florida location, employees join together to improve the world.
Explore what’s possible. Joining our U.S. - based team means contributing to and learning about the commercialization of some of the most exciting technologies the world has ever seen. We are turning “science fiction” into everyday reality through technologies such as superconducting, 3D integrated circuits or computer chips, carbon nanotubes, photonic logic devices, micro electro-mechanical systems and other emerging device topologies. We manufacture products for aerospace and defense, medical, automotive, consumer and industrial markets, to name a few. Our customers include emerging leaders who rely on our intellectual property security and quality manufacturing services.
Step into the future. SkyWater’s values of Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration, Empowerment and Growth Mindset guide us to cultivate an empowered, learning environment. We also invest in developing highly skilled, dedicated employees — and employees who are entering the workforce for the first time, from the military, and a variety of educational backgrounds.
Are you bold thinking? Find your place on our team and help us change the world!
Position Summary: As a member of the SkyWater Information Technology team, the Senior System Administrator is a hands-on contributor role responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of IT systems. You will be one of the leaders that will modernize our environment enabling us to deliver highly available systems. This role will have significant input into new technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Be part of a team that manages and maintains our VMWare environment and effectuates standards and best practices of operations.
- Be part of a team that manages and maintains our NetApp environment and effectuates standards and best practices of operations.
- Maintain systems and tools including patching, config changes, and monitoring.
- Maintain and support new and existing physical and virtual servers on multiple operating systems (Unix, Linux, Windows, VMWARE) including patching and monitoring.
- Responsible for performance tuning of business-critical systems.
- Participate in strategic planning. Provide substantial input into the infrastructure roadmap.
- Proactively ensure the highest infrastructure availability on-premise and within the cloud.
- Design and maintain a comprehensive backup strategy to deliver file recovery to DR scenario for business continuity.
- Manage identity, federated, and compliance platforms, including PKI, ADFS, MFA, IAM, and DLP.
- Plan and implement systems automation.
- Optimize physical and virtual server infrastructure across the organization.
- Plan and implement new equipment\software rollouts.
- Perform hardware and software upgrades.
- Assist with network-related troubleshooting.
- Build and maintain server infrastructure documentation.
- Liaison with stakeholders for new system design and implementation.
- Build and maintain scripts to automate current manual processes.
- Mentor junior-level staff.
The job also requires performing other duties as assigned. Percentages of time spent on job duties are estimates and may vary for each position.
Required Qualifications
Experience and/or Education:
- 7+ yrs experience as IT Systems Admin\Engineer: Preferably within 500+ employee org.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field (Preferred)
- Solid Cloud experience with Azure, AWS, and Google (IDCS a plus).
- Experience with server operating systems (Windows, Linux, Unix).
- De-duplication, NetApp storage admin, and VMWare admin experience.
- Excellent communication and engagement skills.
- Cisco compute, blade, and standalone (or related) experience.
- Experience with virtualization (VMWARE, Hyper-V).
- System monitoring tools and data collection (Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk)
- Comprehensive backup strategy (prefer in cloud solutions).
- Authentication technologies and frameworks (MFA, OAuth, SAML)
- Active Directory experience
- Helpful but not required:
- Relevant certifications a plus
- Scripting skills a plus (PowerShell, Java, Perl, Python)
- DBA experience a plus but not required (Oracle, SQL Server)
- Experience with Azure Server Management and Azure Automation Desired State Configuration a plus
SkyWater has an exciting environment where the brightest semiconductor minds come together to achieve exceptional results. We offer competitive salary and financial benefits, such as, bonuses, life insurance, 401k match, and opportunities to buy SkyWater stock at a discounted rate.
We provide benefits that promote a healthy life, such as, comprehensive benefits package including benefit eligibility day one, paid time off, paid holidays, an on-site fitness facility, an on-site, self-serve market and so much more!
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- 2401 E 86th St, Bloomington, MN 55425, USA