it specialist

This is a Washington Army National Guard Title 32 Excepted Service Non-Bargaining Unit Technician position:

IT SPECIALIST (SYSADMIN)

Location: Washington G6 Information Systems, OCIO/G6

CAMP MURRAY, Washington 98430

Army National Guard Units

Appointment Type: Permanent, excepted service

Advertised as: ENLISTED/WARRANT OFFICER

Announcement may be used to fill one or more vacancies.

Your resume must contain your own words. Resumes that are verbatim, from this announcement, will not be considered.

A GS , IT SPECIALIST (SYSADMIN):

• Serves as project leader responsible for developing, assigning, and coordinating duties and projects for systems administrators.
• Develops, modifies, and tests overall system backup and recovery strategies for all systems.
• Serves as the technical expert and focal point for installation, configuration and testing of hardware and software associated with multiple operating systems and computer platforms.
• Provides technical assistance and analysis to other IT personnel involved in system design, programming, database design, and adapting commercially available software.
• Determines equipment requirements, communications, and interfaces with other systems.
• Evaluates machine usage based on current usage patterns and develops plans for the acquisition of hardware and software needed to support future IT requirements.
• Serves as the senior systems administrator responsible for planning, coordinating, modifying, implementing, and troubleshooting to support customer needs.
• Analyzes, evaluates, and recommends hardware/software changes to various computer systems.
• Considers factors such as compatibility with standard systems, conversion or implementation costs, and impact on existing equipment.
• Develops guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), bulletins and flyers concerning the operation/use of C4 systems, services, and activities.
• Advises the information management staff on issues pertaining to operating systems and hardware status.
• Plans and schedules the installation of new or modified hardware, operating systems, and software applications.
• Develops, documents, coordinates, updates and validates the state Continuity of Operation Plan (COOP) procedures for system disaster recovery.
• Implements operating system releases and maintains the operational status of systems.
• Performs security management in accordance with NGB regulations and state policies.
• Develops and analyzes local policies regarding system access, network rights, and physical access to systems and equipment.
• Designs and modifies the storage structure and correlation between systems.
• Analyzes system operations to identify bottlenecks and takes action to resolve problems and ensure optimal performance and consistency.
• Troubleshoots problems and implements changes on multiple computer platforms.
• Interacts with peers and vendors to resolve hardware and software problems and reports unresolved problems to the appropriate party.
• Coordinates with specialists and managers at higher levels to obtain information for interfacing with systems at those levels and to facilitate the acquisition and exchange of information technology.
• Other duties as assigned.