National Convenience Distributors serves customers in the Northeastern United States as the 4 th largest full-line convenience store distributor. Our group of companies have shared nearly identical family values, corporate cultures, and customer-centric philosophies for generations. We work to continue and enhance our legacy of excellence and shared beliefs while providing value-added services and personalized product recommendations that nurture long-term relationships. By employing talented team members who bring their experience, knowledge, and commitment to National Convenience Distributors, we can transform and grow not only our businesses but even more importantly, yours.
Job Description
Systems Administrator
This position is responsible for the daily operations of Technology - Network Operations, Voice/Data communications, Server Infrastructure used within J.Polep Distribution Services, a division of NCD, for both Cloud and On-Premise. This individual would serve as the lead internal technical resource at our Chicopee location.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Responsible for all components within the IT Infrastructure; Firewalls, Security Appliances, VMWare, Cisco Networking and Compute.
· Maintain and Optimize Connectivity between locations
· Support and Maintain DR Connectivity
· Maintain and Optimize Phone System with Vendor Support
· Periodic reviews of Security Policies to ensure all remain in compliance with Vendors
· General Support of all Network & Server issues
Qualifications:
EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, & LICENSES:
· Bachelor's degree or Related IT Certifications
· Equivalent work experience
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
· 5+ years of IT Experience
· Office 365 Administration
· Security Knowledge
· Networking
· VMWare
· IBM Hardware a plus
· Cisco Meraki Networking & Wireless
SKILLS/ABILITIES :
· Excellent communication skills
· Ability to diagnose technology issues quickly
· Detail oriented with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
· Ability to learn new Systems/Applications.
· Oracle Cloud Infrastructure PaaS a plus.
- Maintain network servers such as file servers
- Maintaining servers systems and software
- Perform server installations and server administration setup
- Build windows servers and clients
- Maintain network servers such as file servers, intrusion detection systems
- Install servers and application software
- Specify new server hardware, operating systems and software
- Maintain hardware and network systems
- Modifying performance of servers and network hardware and software
- Recommend server and desktop hardware and software
- Assist users with hardware/software/system problems
- Implement network software and hardware upgrades
- Perform software install and updates on all network server based systems and network infrastructure
- Manage server performance to include file servers, database servers, web servers, and domain resources
- Troubleshoot problems with server hardware and applications software
- Configure server and desktop software
- Enforce server hardware and operating system standards
- Monitor and maintain server hardware
- Configure network equipment and servers
- Perform hardware installs and configurations of all network server systems