Job Summary

 

We are Coatesville Area School District and we stand for quality. Our technology teams possess the tools to make a real impact. Working with schools is our niche, making positive cultural changes towards digital transformation is our mission. We bridge the gap between technology and curriculum, which drives innovation in the classroom. Imagine what a school can accomplish where every student has the latest technology and is provided with the means for total utilization. That is CASD.

 

The Systems Engineer will join our talented team at the Coatesville Area School District. You will be responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining school district technology infrastructure with emphasis on supporting datacenter servers and enterprise application platforms.

 

Requirements and Qualifications

To successfully perform this position, a person must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The qualification requirements listed below represent the minimum levels of educational achievement, training, skill and/or ability necessary.

 

Required Education:

Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in technology related field (Highly desirable) or equivalent experience.

Industry certifications (CNE/MCSE/Network+) highly desirable.

 

Required Skills and Knowledge:

A minimum of three years of successful experience with the design, specification, installation and support of local and wide area computer networks.

Proven technical expertise in server, network, desktop, laptop, tablet and peripheral device maintenance, installation and management.

Active Directory, DNS and DHCP.

Firewall and Content Filter.

Microsoft O365 and other hosted environments.

VMWare support and migration experience required (versions 3.5-6.0.)

Mail flow, SPAM filtering and archiving with servers such as Microsoft Exchange.

Imaging and deployment tools such as WSUS, Intune and SCCM.

Experience with IP routing and bandwidth management.

Wireless networking.

Microsoft Windows 10/11/ Server 2008 – 2022.

Excellent prioritization and project management skills.

Good written and verbal communication skills.

Excellent customer service skills.

Willingness to learn and take directions.

 

Desirable Experience:

Cloud Services (Office 365 and Google)

Basic Web Hosting (IIS / Tomcat / Apache / HTML)

Visio.

NetApp San Maintenance from EMC.

Backup & Recovery (Barracuda/Veearn/LiveVault/Datto/Symantec.)

PowerShell Scripts.

 

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without advance notice.

 

Essential Functions and Duties

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions in a timely manner.

 

This list below is intended to be illustrative rather than complete.  It shows major duties and responsibilities and does not express or imply that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent in this position.  The employee will be required to perform any other position-related duties requested by the supervisor.

 

• Establishes and maintains server equipment and associated operating systems, including physical and virtual iterations of such equipment.
• Ensures server availability is maintained at proper service levels through proactive monitoring, measurement, planning, and change management.
• Maintains optimum disk, memory, and processing allocation in the virtualized environment and makes provisions for redundancy and failover.
• Establishes and conducts backup procedures for server instances and core data repositories/databases.
• Supports Cyber Security policy, products, procedures and protocols.
• Administers active directory and domain level contexts for computers, groups, and users.
• Manages group policy, permissions, and other security context for Microsoft AD domain.
• Provisions and maintains all enterprise storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, Disk, LUNS)
• Maintains Internet connectivity and DNS records for publicly accessible services.
• Responsible for troubleshooting 3rd Tier escalation of infrastructure support issues and coordinating with the on-site personnel or 4th Tier vendors for any compulsory assistance.
• Responsible for district VOIP services, management and operation.
• Responsible for daily management of assigned helpdesk ticket queues with adherence to established thresholds for response.
• Installs, configures, monitors, and maintains network protocols, and addressing.

 

 

 

Physical Requirements and Additional Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

Mental Functions

Copying – Transcribing, entering, or posting data.

Computing – Performing arithmetic operations and reporting on and/or carrying out a prescribed action in relation to them.

Compiling – Gathering, collating, or classifying information about data, people, or things.  Reporting and/or carrying out a prescribed action in relation to the evaluation is frequently involved.

Analyzing — Examining and evaluating data. Presenting alternative actions in relation to the evaluation is frequently involved.

Coordinating- Determine time, place, and sequence of operations or action taken based on analysis of data. May include prioritizing multiple responsibilities and/or accomplishing them simultaneously.

 

Relations with Others

Supervision (received) - Independence of actions; authority to determine methods of operation.

Communicating — Talking with and/or listening and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information; includes giving/receiving assignments and/or directions.

Interpersonal Skills/Behaviors — Dealing with individuals with a range of moods and behaviors in a tactful, congenial, personal manner so as not to alienate or antagonize them.