System Administrator – Engineering and Provisioning

TekWissen llc

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Poughkeepsie, NY, us on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 26, 2025 Last posted March 26, 2025
Job description

TekWissen provides a unique portfolio of innovative capabilities that seamlessly combines clients insights, strategy, design, software engineering, and systems integration.

www.tekwissen.com 

The System Administrator (SA) is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. 


1. Engineering of SA-related solutions for various project and operational needs.
2. Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
3. Install and configure systems
4. Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
5. Contribute to and maintain system security standards.
6. Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.



Required Skills:
1. Bachelor (4-year) degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science.
2. Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Unix and Microsoft.
3. Four to six years system administration experience. 

4. Familiarity with Cobbler, Puppet, Ganglia, DNS, NTP, NFS, OpenLDAP, OpenVPN, NVC, bugzilla. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About this role

Summary

Manage system hardware/software, install/configure servers, develop procedures, ensure security, automate tasks.

Job title

System Administrator – Engineering and Provisioning

Experience level

4-6 years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Poughkeepsie, NY, on-site only

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

unixmicrosoftcobblerpuppetgangliadnsntpnfsopenldapopenvpnnvcbugzilla

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

systems administrationserver configurationinfrastructure
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

On-site City