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Kaiser Permanente · 1 day ago

Systems Administrator V, Applications - (Data Innovations, Cerner, CLS)

Chino Hills, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Kaiser Permanente is seeking a Systems Administrator V to drive the incident and problem management process and resolve complex issues. The role involves overseeing business-specific projects, collaborating with technical teams, and managing the stability and performance of enterprise systems.

Health CareHospitalMental HealthNon ProfitPersonal Health

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others

Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback

Collaborates with technical and project team leaders to resolve system problems and application-specific issues

Communicates with product users and suppliers to share information, identify opportunities, resolve problems, prioritize customer requirements, and maintain continuous improvement through customer feedback

Escalates unresolved or critical issues, risks or problems to system engineers and management

Meets timelines and provides cross-functional resources to drive the delivery of appropriate, sustainable, and prompt solutions

Plans and performs complex system configuration

Manages the stability, availability, and performance of enterprise systems and systems in one or more additional IT domains (e.g., systems, applications, network, databases, storage, security) by performing complex systems analysis to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement

Plans the maintenance, modification, and documentation of applications

Monitors the service of first and second level support for enterprise systems and systems in one or more additional IT domains by diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving complex incidents to minimize system issues

Creates complex documentation of new and existing system configuration and procedural information, and supports others in ensuring system configurations documentation is complete and accurate

Provides complex application-oriented administration and technical support for production and non-production environments

Leads hardware and software changes into environments and one or more additional IT production environments by performing impact analyses of system changes

Develops guidelines to prevent and/or resolve recurring problems

Recommends and executes complex performance tuning and optimization activities

Evaluates new complex application packages and identifies anticipated systems requirements for planning purposes

Qualification

Application SupportSystem AdministrationLeadership ExperienceComplex Problem SolvingPerformance TuningVendor ManagementDocumentation SkillsCross-Functional Collaboration

Required

Minimum five (5) years experience in end-to-end application/infrastructure production support

Minimum two (2) years in a leadership role working with IT or operational teams

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Social Science, Education, Business, Health Care or related field and Minimum eight (8) years working in IT or operations. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement

Preferred

Three (3) years experience working with IT vendors

Five (5) years experience in the administration and custom configuration of large off-the-shelf applications or software packages

Five (5) years system administration experience

Company

Kaiser Permanente

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Kaiser Permanente is a health organization that offers disease prevention, mental healthcare, and chronic disease management services.

Founded in 1945

Oakland, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org

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