Peter Millar LLC is seeking an IT System Administrator to join its support team. This role is pivotal in managing, maintaining, and supporting all aspects of our network to ensure critical business systems are healthy. You will provide technical expertise and serve as an escalation point for IT support technicians and peers.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain systems including servers, networks, and applications
- Patch, update, and upgrade infrastructure to ensure compliance and stability
- Provide end user technical support, education, and training
- Create and maintain documentation for hardware, software, and network configurations
- Work closely with the IT Security Administrator and other team members supporting the security framework
- Manage tickets and work within a ticket queue effectively
- Maintain high-availability systems, data integrity, security, and disaster recovery configurations
- Serve as an escalation point for IT support technicians and other peers
- Provide high-level system monitoring with an understanding of reliability, availability, and failure management/mitigation needs
- Deploy follow up processes while supporting remote employees, office locations, and retail stores
- Follow IT change management process
- Work closely with business users, internal IT staff, and external consultants to complete projects under high levels of responsibility and autonomy
- Research solutions and work through all phases from proof of concept to implementation, including cost negotiation, communication, documentation, and training
- Be available outside of regular hours for escalations and special projects
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of experience administrating Qualys VMDR
- College degree in CIS, Computer Science, a related field, or relevant training and experience
- 5+ years of experience supporting end users and resolving technical issues for Windows servers and workstations
- 5+ years in a server, network, or systems support role
- Follow security best practices when deploying, upgrading, and maintaining IT systems and services
- Experience managing projects
- Experience with IT change request process
- Provide customer service
- Ability to work well independently and collaborate as part of a team in a fast-paced, growing company
- Highly skilled working with Active Directory, group policies, and domain replication
- Familiar with networking concepts and protocols
- Skilled at troubleshooting and reporting problems
- Experience managing an O365 environment
- Working knowledge of virtualization technologies such as VMware
- Familiar with patch management platforms and patching processes
- Ability to work under pressure and adapt quickly to shifting priorities
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Highly skilled in installing and configuring new hardware, software, and systems
- Comfortable with Powershell and other scripting technologies
Nice to Have
- Qualys training or certification a plus: QCS or QCE
- 1+ years Linux experience preferred
- VMware experience preferred
- Experience working with cloud providers preferred
- Hybrid Cloud experience a plus
Technical Stack
- Qualys VMDR
- Windows servers and workstations
- Linux
- O365
- VMware
- Active Directory, Group Policies
- Powershell and other scripting technologies
- Cloud providers
Team & Environment
This position is part of the Support team, working closely with the IT Security Administrator and other team members. The role reports within the support structure and serves as an escalation point for IT support technicians and other peers.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role based at our RTP headquarters.
Peter Millar LLC is an equal opportunity employer.


