Systems Administrator II at City of Greeley in Greeley, Colorado

Job Description:

Salary Range: $74,890.40 - $124,668.27 Annually

Hiring Range: $74,890.40 - $93,602.08 Annually

Job Summary:

The Systems Administrator II is part of the Information Technology (I.T.) Department residing in the Infrastructure Division. This team is responsible for both critical and non-critical IT systems and infrastructure. The main role for this position is to configure, maintain, manage, monitor, and support various City departmental applications and systems including, but not limited to: VMware vSphere, SAN shared storage, Microsoft Windows Servers, Active Directory, Exchange email, email archiving, email filtering, and file shares along with administration and management of services such as DNS, DHCP, WSUS, PKI, KMS, and others.  Additional responsibilities will include working as a team member on various technology projects.

Experience, Knowledge, Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in technology or a related field gained through a four-year college/university academic program, specialized technical training OR equivalent combination of education and work experience sufficient to perform the job duties


• 2-4 years relevant work experience


• Experience managing Microsoft Windows Servers and Active Directory.


• Experience managing and maintaining Microsoft Exchange.


• Experience managing VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure.


• Experience or Knowledge of managing iSCSI shared storage, Nimble experience preferred.


• Experience managing and maintaining backups, Veeam experience preferred.


• High level of quality and accuracy with attention to details.


• Excellent customer service skills.


• Ability to communicate effectively to non-technical staff and customers.


• Ability to work independently and reliably.


• Ability to take direction from management on general work assignment in terms of overall goals, and with freedom to decide and based on broad policies and procedures, determine how and when the results will be achieved.


• Knowledge: Scripting/automation (Powershell, Python, Bash, etc.), TCP/IP networking, firewalling and NAT, modern security practices


• Functional knowledge: Microsoft SQL Server database management, Linux management.


• Ability to pass CJIS background check and drug screen. ability to lift 35 lbs. and possession of a valid Colorado driver’s license

Essential Functions:

• Provide IT assistance to the organization in a professional and timely manner.


• Maintain, monitor, and manage virtual infrastructure; over 100 virtual and physical servers associated with applications and services.


• Evaluate and install patches, software updates, and resolve software-related problems


• Perform systems maintenance tasks, such as system backup, recovery.


• Administer departmental applications.


• Write end-user documentation and Operations procedures.


• Maintain documentation and diagrams of the environment 


• Work with software vendors and contractors to troubleshoot incidents.


• Assist other IT staff in resolution of work problems.


• Respond to common inquires or complaints from customers or staff and provide application/systems support and provide training as necessary.


• Effectively present information to IT Staff and customers.


• Daily work involves managing and monitoring: Dell Poweredge servers, HPE ProLiant servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008-2016, Active Directory, On-premises Microsoft Exchange 2013, Metalogix Archive Manager for Exchange, ProofPoint email filtering, VMware vSphere, Veeam, and Nimble SAN storage.

Work Environment:

• Employee is subject to inside environment with protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.


• Employee may be asked to drive a personal vehicle for business purposes.


• Employee may be required to travel with associated risks inherent to travel by car/air.


• Employee is subject to working alone and/or with groups and/or attends meetings.


• Employee spends extended periods of time at fixed workstation.


• Employee may be required to conduct business in alternate locations within City buildings or field sites; sometimes in formal settings.


• Employee may be required to work overtime, holidays, evenings, shifts, or weekends.


• Employee may have frequent interruptions; required to multi-task; inflexible deadlines.


• Employee may have frequent contact with the public--in person, via email/telephone and may experience adverse or confrontational situations with internal/external customers.


• Employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions--as in typical office or administrative work. Work performed is sedentary.


• Environment may contain marginal to having moderate hazards that are typically predictable or well protected against; overall, the environment is safe with the exception of working in the data centers where there is exposure to high voltage when working with the ACs, UPS, or plugging in equipment.

Physical Requirements:

• The essential functions of this job require occasional carrying/lifting light objects, feeling, hearing, pushing, reaching, standing, and talking; continuously fingering, grasping, repetitive motion, and sitting;


• Employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data/figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading of printed materials; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices--graphs and gauges; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes;


• Employee is required to have visual acuity for close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus;


• Employee is required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: operating machinery where the seeing job is at or within arm's reach; performing mechanical or skilled trades tasks of a non-repetitive nature such as ones by carpenters, technicians, service people, plumbers, painters, mechanics, etc.;


• Employee is required to perform minimal physical effort typically found in clerical work. Work is primarily sedentary and may occasionally require lifting and carrying light objects, and walking and/or standing as needed and minimal; other physical duties may entail server and storage array transport and installation and network cabling.