Junior Platform Administrator

About the Role

The Platform Administrator will work with the larger team to help in the design, development, administration, configuration, and support of data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of administration for data platforms
• Participate in the identification and resolution of production and platform issues
• Participate in platform capacity planning, metrics, and tuning recommendations
• Collaborate with storage, server, LDAP, database, and other IT administrators to support ongoing operations for meeting the business needs
• Participate in the provisioning of tools and environments, including but not limited to metadata identities, users, groups, and roles
• Participate in ensuring the platform is positioned for compliance with IT policies, standards, and agreed upon service levels
• Participate in on call support as required
• Participate in the debugging and resolution of issues found during testing
• Work with technical teams interfacing with the platform
• Create and maintain system documentation, manuals, policy documents, etc.
• May lead small enhancement efforts and small projects
• Schedule and facilitate meetings as needed
• Research and analyze production support issues
• Actively communicate with users and team to provide technical support
• Participates with team to establish target dates and complete activities/deliverables under changing conditions
• Participates in production releases and the team’s on-call rotation as scheduled

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Information Systems or Related Field.
• Experience with application development
• Experience with or knowledge of AIX, UNIX, and/or LINUX
• Knowledge of or understanding of database design schemas and data modeling
• Strong technical skills and a good understanding of software development principles
• Strong business and technology aptitude with a willingness to learn and understand business and software solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communications
• Technical writing capability
• Ability to translate technology into relatable concepts for business partners and stakeholders
• Highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical, decision making, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to build strong partnerships and to work collaboratively with all business and IT areas
• Ability to effectively handle multiple priorities, prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• High level of professionalism, confidence, and ability to build credibility with team members and business partners