System Administrators

Pioneer Solutions, is a US/Europe based Software Company that specializes in providing customized risk management solutions to corporate clients worldwide, and is currently seeking energetic and ambitious people to join its team in its Kathmandu office. Besides offering a stimulating learning experience and a competitive pay, Pioneer also offers many benefits and perks including health insurance, medical insurance, accidental insurance, provident funds, lunch allowances, transportation allowances, night-shift allowances, 5 working days/week, and opportunities for working in US/Europe. We currently have a few openings for the following positions:

A. System Administrator (DAY SHIFT)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitor all Windows servers and network appliances for performance issues and stability concerns.
• Install new/rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, in-house applications etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Research and recommend innovative, and automated approaches (whenever possible) for system administration tasks to leverage resources and provide economies of scale.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required data (code repository, database, and configurations) are successfully backed up to the appropriate media and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.
• Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure/add new services as necessary.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.  Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
• Prepare various reports on IIS uptime, database usage and disk, CPU, memory usage regularly.
• Document issues and associated resolutions to problems.
• Train and enforce system policies to end users.
• Should have Good Knowledge in virtualization (VMware).

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 2+ years of experience in relevant field.
• Knowledge on switching, routing, BGP, NAT, VMware platform, active directory, file server etc.
• Programming knowledge on web applications including database programming.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the English language.
• Experience with documenting procedures.
• Bachelor's degree (preferably Masters’) in Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• Patient and ability to handle job pressure.