Acara Solutions has been providing our staffing industry related services nationally for over 60 years. Our environmental conservation client needs a Systems/Network Engineer to join their organization as a salaried direct employee in their Los Angeles offices.
Please only respond with your resume if you currently live in the Los Angeles region.
This is an onsite position.
A history with a Systems Engineer title is required.
Looking for candidates with long employer tenure and progression within their employer.
As a Systems and Network Engineer, you will be responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining the hardware and software of our hybrid IT infrastructure. You will work closely with external service providers to complete projects on time and within budget. You will also ensure that our system standards are followed and documented throughout the organization.
- Install, configure, and maintain hardware, such as Windows and Mac devices, networking equipment, storage devices, audio/video conferencing systems, video surveillance systems, and VoIP phone systems.
- Install, configure, and maintain software, such as server operating systems, Linux administration, identity and SSO provider, virtualization, remote access, email, SAN, backup and data management, protection, monitoring, MDM, and web servers.
- Provide strategic planning for network security and maintain security of external websites.
- Manage server backups and restores, mobile device management and security, AD users and groups, physical servers and server room environment (minimal), cloud compute environments, and cloud disaster recovery.
- Maintain support and architecture documentation and serve as tier 2 support for help desk technicians and direct support, when necessary.
- Help manage IT initiatives and provide 24/7 on-call support to Director.
- Travel to various company locations, primarily in Los Angeles.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Will work with the IT Director to mentor junior IT helpdesk staff.
Required Skills / Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree (ideal to have it within Information Technology).
Min 4 years of experience in system and network maintenance & support that includes working knowledge of Windows server, AD, DNS, WINS, WSUS, cloud computing environments, Microsoft office suite, Microsoft 365 (Office 365), Exchange Online (Exchange 365). The experience must include fully administering windows environments.
Preferred Skills / Qualifications:
CCNA or working towards one
Strong Project Management skills (understands operations and getting projects done on time)