IT Systems Administrator

Overview

Introducing Prime Controls

Established in 1991, Prime Controls is a family-owned Systems Integration and I&C Construction firm dedicated to meeting clients' industrial automation and control requirements. As a Main Automation Contractor, we offer comprehensive solutions, supported by our size, expertise, and extensive experience. With a professional team of over 900 employees, Prime Controls serves customers nationwide from our Dallas, Texas headquarters and offices throughout the South-Central United States. Our mission is to deliver the highest quality professional services while prioritizing our employees' well-being and fostering an exceptional workplace environment.

What You Will Do

Work as the primary technical resource on our Infrastructure Services group within the larger context of the

Information Technology department. Primarily responsible for servers, storage, data protection, business continuity

testing/planning, and next-level resource for Help Desk escalation/collaboration.

A Typical Day at Prime Controls

• Oversee the day-to-day operations and engineering responsibilities relating to virtual and physical servers, storage, UPS, and systems management
• Responsible for regularly reviewing performance metrics to ensure operational optimization; make recommendations to the IT Manager to take full advantage of computing and storage resources
• Ensures availability of business applications supporting the company’s operations (both hosted and on- prem)
• Ensures data protection through available backup, replication, de-duplication, and compression technologies in production, DR and Development environments
• Responds to and supports resolution in tickets escalated by the IT Help Desk
• Possess a basic working knowledge of layer 2 and layer 3 networking fundamentals to assist in infrastructure and solution design, troubleshooting, and planning
• Communicates effectively to provide optimal support and to promote a professional climate throughout the organization
• Assists in product evaluations as directed by the IT Manager
• Mentors team members who show interest in these areas of responsibility
• Travel will not exceed 15%
  
  

What You Will Bring

• 3-5 years’ experience as an IT Systems Administrator with a heavy focus in managing Windows domains
• Creative problem-solving: utilizing scripting (e.g. PowerShell) and custom apps/tooling to help answer evolving business challenges
• Familiarity with efficient management and querying of Windows Server, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, Entra, Intune, etc. utilizing PowerShell
• Experience with Cohesity, Rubrik, or similar enterprise data protection platforms
• Experience working inside of ITSM platforms like ServiceNow or ServiceDesk Plus, etc
• Deep experience with VMware vSphere and ESXi (versions 6 and 7+), Windows Hyper-V (Nutanix experience is a plus)
• Experience with Systems Management Configuration Tools like SCCM/MECM/MCM and SCOM is a plus
• Experience with AWS EC2 management is a plus
  
  

What We Offer

Full-time employees enjoy a great benefits package including, but not limited to:

• Health, Dental, and Vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account(s)
• Generous PTO
• Numerous company events
• ESOP Program
• 401k matching and more!
  
  

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities may be made to enable them to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities may be made to enable them to perform the essential functions.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.