Server Administrator

Duties:

• Demonstrates regular and predictable attendance.
• Promotes and maintains positive and effective working relationships and promotes good public relationships as a representative of Licking County Government.
• Assists the Senior Network Administrator and assigns network-related projects to ensure platform consistency and provide enhanced security; works in conjunction with the Senior Network Administrator to develop architecture standards and strategy including server consolidation plans.
• Oversees the management of both the virtual and physical server environments.
• Implements tools that enable extended management, full redundancy, point-in-time snapshots, maintenance provisioning, and disaster recovery operations
• Monitors and manages growth and space requirements of the Microsoft Exchange server.
• Ensures mail delivery by monitoring the domain and public IP addresses to ensure different subscriber lists do not block them and investigating non-delivery receipts
• Provides management of email archiving capabilities including the creating of confidential reports on email usage and compliance with public records requests involving email.
• Evaluates and installs server and client operating system patches.
• Installs, maintains, and repairs server hardware and associated software in county agency/departments; handles the setup of all new physical and virtual servers.
• Ensures server performance and maintains high availability of applications by monitoring CPU and memory utilization, reviewing event logs and taking the appropriate actions, verifying anti-virus signature updates, patch management that critical services are running.
• Ensures critical 24X7 public safety services are available, remains accessible, and takes the necessary action immediately in the event of an outage.
• Implements business continuity and disaster recovery operations in accordance with adopted policies.
• Oversees the management of the Microsoft Active Directory Environment including administration to ensure security compliance and standardization.
• Architects and implements storage management practices to reduce I/O and improve performance and reduce energy costs in adherence with documented county records retention policies.
• Generates, modifies, and maintains documentation of configurations, policies, and procedures related to the administration of the county network, security policies, and the remaining areas identified in this document.
• Monitors the data center power and environmental conditions.
• Acts in a helpdesk support capacity during periods of high demand and providing high-level support by providing technical assistance to end users.
• Meets all job safety requirements and all applicable OSHA safety standards that pertain to the essential functions of the position and all agency safety procedures.
• Remains informed of current developments and procedures pertinent to duties; may be required to meet with vendors, collaborate with peers, and attend seminars/training.