Systems Administrator

Why join us:

• Competitive salary designed to grow with your career
• Employee Assistance Program – Including Financial Wellness
• Novated Car Lease option after one years' service
• Paid parental leave
• Corporate Health Plan Discount
• Salary Sacrifice
• Employee Recognition and Rewards Program

Our Company:

K&S Corporation is an ASX-listed company and has provided transport, logistics, energy, and dangerous goods services since 1945. Founded in Mount Gambier, we have grown and now represent Australia and New Zealand as one of the largest multi-modal providers. At the core of our success are our 1800 educated employees thriving in an open collaborative and innovative culture. 

At K&S Freighters we don't only talk about growth, we make it happen. Your professional and personal development is our priority, ensuring you feel fulfilled, supported and accomplished every day. 

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the IT Operations Team Leader, the IT Systems Administrator is responsible for providing a high level of technical support and management of core infrastructure, systems and server technologies within K&S.

The Ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, a proactive mindset, and a commitment to delivering reliable IT services.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the ongoing stability and reliability of all WinTel-based systems.
• Maintaining and implementing new or upgraded systems, including disaster recovery
• Overseeing all server management.
• Assisting in strategy and planning, risk management and change management, license compliance, vendor relationships, ICT governance, infrastructure and enterprise software support.
• Writing scripts, package applications, and actioning all 3rd-level escalations. 
• Ensuring relevant knowledge base and process documentation is available for all IT Staff.
• Helping to identify and developing technology and infrastructure cost reduction activities and support services improvements 
• Overseeing the backup architecture and applying operating system updates, patches and configuration changes.
• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems.
• Maintaining superior knowledge of AD, Exchange, group policy, SQL, ISA and Terminal Services.

Success Profile:

• MCSE / MCSA / MCITP equivalent certification.
• ITIL certification.
• Advanced expertise in systems configuration and troubleshooting within a Microsoft WAN on-premises.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills for multi-platform fault diagnosis.
• Broad working experience with brand name hardware platforms.
•  Maintaining a large multi-site, multi-domain systems infrastructure.
• Sound understanding of multiple domain concepts, including Exchange integrations and Active Directory implementations.
• Thorough understanding of antivirus (SentinelOne) and backup (Veeam) methodologies at an enterprise level.
• Vast experience with Microsoft enterprise products: Exchange, SQL, ISA, Terminal Services, Wmware / HyperV Virtualisation, WSUS, Systems Centre Operations Manager.
• Extensive experience with the following services: DNS, DHCP, Group Policy.
•  Expertise in IP telephony, specifically FortiGate environment.
• Implementation and maintenance of a DR environment in Azure.
• Experience with mass storage devices, specifically SANs (NetApp).
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively within a team.

If you're a collaborative team player with a strong work ethic, a positive attitude, and a passion for seizing every opportunity to make an impact we want to hear from you. 

To uphold our core value of "Everybody Safe Everyday" a pre-employment medical and police check will be required to be successful in this role.

We foster a warm supportive culture grounded in our values: Safety, Customer Service, People and Community and Innovation.