Systems Administrator

Company Description

Southern Benefit Administrators, Incorporated, headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, specializes in providing administration services for union-sponsored benefit plans nationwide. Established in 1981, the company has a strong focus on union benefit plans, with most new business stemming from personal referrals. In addition to its corporate office near Nashville, Southern Benefit operates branch offices in Chattanooga, Memphis, New Orleans, Norfolk, and Richmond. Known for delivering tailored, cost-effective solutions, Southern Benefit is committed to offering the highest level of service to its clients.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a Systems Administrator, located in Nashville, TN. The Systems Administrator will be responsible for managing, maintaining, and supporting the organization’s IT infrastructure. Daily responsibilities include system administration tasks, troubleshooting technical issues, providing technical support for users, managing network systems, and ensuring the overall security and performance of IT systems.

• Support LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, and intranet systems
• Ensure the design of the system allows all components to work properly together
• Make recommendations for future upgrades
• Maintain network and system security
• Troubleshoot problems reported by users and analyze and isolate issues
• Monitor networks to ensure security
• Evaluate and modify the system’s performance
• Maintain network facilities in individual machines, such as drivers and settings of personal computers as well as printers
• Maintain the integrity of the network, server deployment, and security
• Ensure network connectivity throughout a company’s LAN/WAN infrastructure is on par with technical considerations
• Design and deploy networks; Maintain network servers such as file servers, and VPN gateways
• Perform network address assignment
• Assign routing protocols and routing table configuration
• Assign configuration of authentication and authorization of directory services

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Sciences, Technology, degree or relevant experience
• Specific experience with Microsoft Operating Systems, 10/11
• Windows Server 2012-2019
• Specific experience with Barracuda Backup
• Experience with Fortigate firewall technology
• Experience with Windows Defender
• Microsoft Azure, Entra and InTune
• SFTP, Experience with JSCAPE is a plus.
• Experience with Mimecast is a plus
• Experience with iSCSI SANS; Dell EQ and NetApp knowledge is a plus