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Systems Administrator - Data Center Services - Hybrid

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
United States, Arizona, Phoenix
2444 W Las Palmaritas Dr (Show on map)
Jan 29, 2025

Awarded a Healthiest Employer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona aims to fulfill its mission to inspire health and make it easy.AZ Blue offersa variety of health insurance products and services to meet the diverse needs of individuals, families, and small and large businesses as well as providing information and tools to help individuals make better health decisions.

At AZ Blue, we have a hybrid workforce strategy, called Workability, that offers flexibility with how and where employees work. Our positions are classified as hybrid, onsite or remote. While the majority of our employees are hybrid, the following classifications drive our current minimum onsite requirements:

  • Hybrid People Leaders: must reside in AZ, required to be onsite at least once per week

  • Hybrid Individual Contributors: must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per month

  • Onsite: daily onsite requirement based on the essential functions of the job

  • Remote: not held to onsite requirements, however, leadership can request presence onsite for business reasons including but not limited to staff meetings, one-on-ones, training, and team building

Please note that onsite requirements may change in the future, based on business need, and job responsibilities. Most employees should expect onsite requirements and at a minimum of once per month.

This position is hybrid within the state of AZ only. This hybrid work opportunity requires residency, and work to be performed, within the State of Arizona.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Provides systems and application administration and monitoring, operational support, and application support.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Required Work Experience

  • 3 years of experience supporting systems / applications, including enterprise monitoring - tools include Splunk, Extrahop, SolarWinds, MS System Center
  • 1 year of experiences of supporting enterprise backup / restoration solutions utilizing CommVault
  • 1+ year(s) experience with scripting or coding (e.g. PowerShell, Bash, SQL, SPL, Python, etc.)
  • 1 year of experience implementing projects (small and medium scope)

Required Education

  • High-School Diploma or GED in general field of study

Required Licenses

Required Certifications

  • N/A

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Work Experience

  • 5 years of experiences of supporting enterprise system solutions
  • 5 years of experience with Windows and Linux Operating Systems, network and storage solutions
  • Experience Supporting Private (VMware) and Public Cloud (Azure, AWS) Solutions
  • 5 years supporting high level 24/7 production system environments
  • 1+ years of experience implementing projects
  • 1+ years Developing Enterprise Monitoring Solutions - custom solutions or building on enterprise tool
  • Demonstrate an ability to code or write scripts (e.g. PowerShell, Bash, Python, SQL, SPL, Lucene)

Preferred Education

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or business administration

Preferred Licenses

  • N/A

Preferred Certifications

  • Certification A+
  • Network +
  • Backup / restoration vendor certification


ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Collaborate with App/Dev, Agile and Infrastructure staff to ensure smooth and reliable operation of software and systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes.
  • Research, analyze, track and resolve basic production problems - Troubleshooting skills and solutioning
  • Perform server and security audits, system backup procedures, and other recovery processes in accordance with the company's disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
  • Assist in establishing operational and enterprise support standards by working to define in partnership with infrastructure, development teams and agile teams for system configuration (including OS, Cloud, Application, etc); documentation, logging, etc, in order to create a sustainable enterprise compute environment which can be tracked and measured.
  • Maximize system / application performance by monitoring performance; troubleshooting system / application problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; collaborating with IT server, network, storage, DBA and development personnel.
  • Collaborate with supporting IT server, network, storage, DBA and development personnel.
  • Enforce policies, defining and monitoring access.
  • Integrate server backup, including database, e-mail, enterprise systems.
  • Ensure system connectivity of all servers, shared software and other applications.
  • Ensure compatibility and interoperability of in-house computing systems.
  • Coordinate and perform tests for modified and new systems.
  • Monitor and test system performance; prepare and deliver system performance statistics and reports.
  • Assist end users with orientation and training on all modified and/or new systems.
  • Participate on small to medium scoped projects
  • Monitor and create priority list(s) that are agreed to by management
  • Install new software releases, system upgrades
  • Perform system backups and recovery.
  • Maintain data files and monitors system configuration to ensure data integrity.
  • Administration application-level support.
  • Rely on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job.
  • The position requires a full-time work schedule. Full-time is defined as working at least 40 hours per week, plus any overtime as requested or needed to perform job responsibilities.
  • Perform all other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

Required Job Skills

  • Strong knowledge of data processing and related standards
  • Advanced backup/recovery proficiency
  • Intermediate proficiency in spreadsheet, database and word processing software
  • Strong knowledge of operating systems, (e.g. Windows, Linux and cloud systems, networking and communication techniques)
  • Scripting language (PowerShell, Bash/Korn, Python, SQL, SPL, Lucene)
  • Experience with and developing solutions with Network/Enterprise Monitoring Tools (e.g. SCOM, SolarWinds, ExtraHop, Splunk)
  • Experience with and developing solutions with scheduling/automation tools

Required Professional Competencies

  • Ability to enforce policies; defining and monitoring access.
  • Strong analytical skills to support independent and effective decisions.
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and work with multiple priorities, sometimes under limited time constraints.
  • Effective interpersonal skills and ability to maintain positive working relationship with others.
  • Systems research and analysis
  • Experience working with third parties
  • Knowledge of business requirements development and user acceptance testing.
  • Maintain confidentiality and privacy

Required Leadership Experience and Competencies

  • Ability to build synergy with a diverse team in an ever-changing environment
  • Facilitate and resolve customer requests and inquiries for all levels of management within the Corporation

PREFERRED COMPETENCIES

Preferred Job Skills

  • Strong knowledge, including hands-on experience in enterprise network / switching / routing.
  • Excellent knowledge of systems monitoring, monitoring concepts, monitoring implementation and reporting.

Preferred Professional Competencies

  • Certification
  • Systems research and analysis expertise
  • Solid technical ability and problem-solving skills
  • Knowledge of internal departments and operations
  • Ability to work with detailed information while keeping focused on the end goal
  • Familiarity with ITIL processes preferred

Required Leadership Experience and Competencies

  • N/A

Our Commitment

AZ Blue does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected group.

Thank you for your interest in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. For more information on our company, see azblue.com. If interested in this position, please apply.

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