System Administrator

Austin, TX, United States

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MedaPoint is a leader in SaaS software for the Medical Transport industry. We are a dynamic and growing company located in South Austin. Our team focuses on providing software solutions that support the billing and scheduling of emergency medical services nationwide. We provide state of the art sophisticated products designed to enhance patient care while improving efficiency and reducing costs. 

 

We are looking for a System Administrator to join our team. This position involves working in a highly collaborative team environment. Our team consists of cutting-edge technologists, data hounds, and aspiring entrepreneurs. We are driven by our passion to solve complex problems with elegant tools. Our culture is described as collaborative, flexible, innovative and simple – we lead with ideas not job titles. Our applications are built on the following technology stack: .NET MVC, Kendo UI, SQL Server 2012 and hosted in Windows Azure, with many of the newest Windows Azure features.  As a Microsoft partner, MedaPoint is pushing the envelope with this structure and expects you to provide input from a System Administrator perspective.

Job Responsibilities

  • Perform activities related to the operations and monitoring of the MedaPoint's cloud-based web applications.
  • Assist in the design, implementation and maintenance of Windows Azure hosted web environments
  • Interact closely with MedaPoint teams for applications and systems support
  • Investigate and troubleshoot issues
  • Configure, support, monitor, and maintain Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, and VM's
  • Responsible for assessing and responding to critical system issues during and after business hours.
  • Maintain system security and enforce firewalls, antivirus, Windows updates, hot fixes and patches.
  • Troubleshoot alerts from monitoring system for system error conditions (system down, disk full, CPU busy, memory full, etc.)
  • Planning, testing and implementation of all IT infrastructure.
  • Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.
  • Maintain documentation of IT systems.
  • Responsible for research and development of assigned projects as it relates to changing technology and making recommendations.

 

Job Skills

 

  • Windows Server 2008 Administration and Management
  • Experience with Azure is a plus
  • VMware Infrastructure
  • Backup Administration
  • High skill with most operating system commands/utilities
  • Familiarity with Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) 
  • Familiarity with networked/distributed computing  environment concepts; for
    • example, can use nslookup,  tracert, add workstations/servers to domains, and
    • map remote filesystems, understands basic routing concepts and VPNs)
  • Ability to write scripts in Powershell   
  • Ability to Administer IIS
  • Administer Microsoft SQL Server, monitor database health
  • Perform Microsoft SQl server backup and recovery
  • Ability to write batch jobs, scripts and database queries.
  • Knowledge of Active Directory and security controls.
  • Maintain DNS settings
  • MS Scripting languages such as batch, VBS, and PowerShell
  • MCSE/MCSA/MCITP certification is a plus