System Administrator

Position Description

Position Overview:

This is a system administrator position that maintain, support, and manage web servers used by Harris County. Through collaboration with enterprise architects, Agile web developers, and networking teams, maintain servers for hosting websites on a content management system. Requires extensive understanding of business applications. Works with technical staff to understand and resolve software problems. Resolves customer complaints with software. Responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements from customers.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Migrate, scale, automate, and maintain web and database server resources in Microsoft Azure

• Through research and collaboration, participates in defining and supporting best practices for development in an enterprise environment with focus on usability creativity, scalability, and re-usability.

• Maintain content management system environment and web servers

• Support in disaster recovery planning

• Responsible for analyzing and troubleshooting complex website and development problems to provide solutions to overcome those problems with the latest technologies.

• Prepare detailed specifications from which programs will be written.

• Migrate sites from one server to another.

• Collaborate with software architects, UI designers, business analysts, project managers, quality assurance, and deployment teams for the successful development and deployment of business applications.

Other Duties:

• This Job Description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position.

• Management may, at its discretion, assign, or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Harris County is an Equal Opportunity Employer

https://hrrm.harriscountytx.gov/Pages/EqualEmploymentOpportunityPlan.aspx

If you need special services or accommodations, please call (713) 274-5445 or emailADACoordinator@bmd.hctx.net.

This position is subject to a criminal history check. Only relevant convictions will be considered and, even when considered, may not automatically disqualify the candidate.

Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related field, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Experience:

• Minimum (4) years of work in a system administrator role.

• Hands on experience with cloud hosting services like Microsoft Azure.

• Maintain IIS web servers.

Knowledge, Skill & Abilities (KSAs):

• High level of problem-solving abilities, client facing expertise, and verbal/written communication skills.

• Migrate, scale, automate, and maintain web and database server resources in Microsoft Azure

• Knowledge and experience with maintaining IIS Web Servers

• Knowledge in Cloud Flare or other caching tools.

• Experience in maintaining multiple servers and multiple websites at one time.

• Knowledge and Abilities of working with Content Management Systems

• Strong analytical skills and experience with both functional and technical requirements.

• Excellent customer management and change management skills.

• Ability to work well both as a member of a team and independently.

• Ability to balance multiple projects at one time.

• Strong release planning and management skills.

Applicants for this position will be subject to a criminal background check that includes being fingerprinted. This applies to any position with network access to Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) or access to an area where CJIS is received, maintained, or stored either manually or electronically (i.e., custodian, maintenance).

Automatic Disqualification:

• Convictions, probation, or deferred adjudication for any Felony, and any Class A Misdemeanor

• Convictions, probation, or deferred adjudication for a Class B Misdemeanor, if within the previous 10 years

• Open arrest for any criminal offense (Felony or Misdemeanor)

• Family Violence conviction

NOTE: Qualifying education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be documented on your job application. You may attach a resume to the application as supporting documentation butONLY information stated on the application will be used for consideration. "See Resume" will not be accepted for qualifications.

Preferences

Experience:

• Experience working with .NET developers, modifying HTML, and applying CSS to their C# coded projects.

• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, DevOps.

Knowledge, Skill & Abilities (KSAs):

• Experience with DNN Evoq CMS.

• Knowledge of Content Management Systems in cloud environments.

General Information

Position Type and Typical Hours of Work:

• Monday - Friday | 40hrs

• Regular Full-time | Onsite Position

• Hybrid Schedule

• Full-time, may be required to work more than forty hours during the workweek or on weekends when special projects or deadlines need to be met.

• Must live or plan to live in the Houston Texas metropolitan area.

Location:

• 1111 Fannin St. Houston, TX. 77002

Work Environment:

• This job operates in a professional office environment.

• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Employment may be contingent on passing a drug screen and meeting other standards.

Due to a high volume of applications positions may close prior to the advertised closing date or at the discretion of the Hiring Department.