Enterprise Server Administrator

Your future role at a glance: **Location:** Remote**Department:** Core Tech Server Storage**Schedule:** Full Time, Days**Salary:** $96,208\.00 \- $134,109\.89 per year How you'll make an impact in this role: * Architect and maintain a global fleet of 10,000\+ Windows Server instances (2016–2022\), ensuring 99\.99% availability through advanced configuration of DFS\-N/DFS\-R namespaces, NPS/RADIUS authentication, and enterprise\-wide GPO security hardening. * Lead massive\-scale in\-place OS migrations and lifecycle refreshes, developing risk\-mitigation frameworks to execute zero\-downtime upgrades across mission\-critical production clusters. * Direct technical oversight of Managed Service Providers (MSPs), serving as the Tier 3 escalation point and architectural authority to ensure vendor delivery aligns with internal SLAs and infrastructure standards. * Manage a hybrid\-hypervisor estate across VMware vSphere and Hyper\-V, optimizing guest density, resource scheduling, and storage I/O performance for a high\-concurrency enterprise environment. * Engineer automated workflows using PowerShell to standardize configuration management and auditing, replacing manual administration with scalable, code\-driven infrastructure processes. What minimum qualifications you'll need: Education:* High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required. What additional requirements you'll need: * Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Hands\-on experience with Terraform or Ansible for automating server provisioning and state enforcement. * Advanced Monitoring: Expertise in building custom dashboards and alerting logic within Splunk, SCOM, or SolarWinds to proactively identify performance bottlenecks. * Cloud Integration: Prior experience managing hybrid identities or workloads within Azure (Entra ID) or AWS EC2 environments. Life at Ascension: Where purpose meets opportunity: Ascension is a leading nonprofit Catholic health system with a culture and associate experience grounded in service, growth, care and connection. We empower our 99,000\+ associates to bring their skills and expertise every day to reimagining healthcare, together. Recognized as one of the Best 150\+ Places to Work in Healthcare and a Military\-Friendly Gold Employer, you’ll find an inclusive and supportive environment where your contributions truly matter. Equal employment opportunity employer: ***Equal employment opportunity employer*** Ascension provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, lactation, breastfeeding, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, all as defined by applicable law, and any other legally protected status or characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster. ***Fraud prevention notice*** Prospective applicants should be vigilant against fraudulent job offers and interview requests. Scammers may use sophisticated tactics to impersonate Ascension employees. To ensure your safety, please remember: Ascension will never ask for payment or to provide banking or financial information as part of the job application or hiring process. Our legitimate email communications will always come from an @ascension.org email address; do not trust other domains, and an official offer will only be extended to candidates who have completed a job application through our authorized applicant tracking system. ***E\-Verify statement*** Employer participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program. Please click here for more information. Benefits: Paid time off (PTO) Various health insurance options \& wellness plans Retirement benefits including employer match plans Long\-term \& short\-term disability Employee assistance programs (EAP) Parental leave \& adoption assistance Tuition reimbursement Ways to give back to your community *Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance, location and salary range at the time of the offer.*