IT System Administrator Lvl 1
Huntsville Hospital Health System
- Location
- Onsite (Huntsville, AL)
- Level
- Mid Level
About the role
Huntsville Hospital Health System is a nonprofit healthcare provider seeking a System Administrator to maintain server operating systems, hardware, and network infrastructure. The role involves troubleshooting, ensuring security, and managing backups within a supportive team environment.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401k match
- Tuition assistance
Perks
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee discounts
- On-site training
Full job details
Overview
Maintain, upgrade and manage server operating systems, software, hardware and servers. Install and configure software and hardware. Manage network servers and technology tools. Monitor performance and maintain systems according to requirements, troubleshoot issues and outages, ensure security through access controls, and backups, upgrade systems with new releases and models, develop expertise to train staff on new technologies, maintain internal wiki with technical documentation, manuals and IT policies.
Qualifications
EDUCATION:
Bachelor's degree preferred in computer science or related field. Experience may be considered in lieu of degree
EXPERIENCE:
2 years experience in Network environment.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS/ABILITIES
- Proven experience as a System Administrator, Server administrator or similar role
- Experience with databases, networks (LAN, WAN) and patch management
- Knowledge of and data backup/recovery systems and methodologies
- Ability to create automations scripts for any number of system related activities, upgrades, or changes to individual or enterprise wide systems and computers
- Experience installing and configuring ESX host and troubleshooting VMware
- Knowledge using and maintaining various operating systems and platforms (Windows, Linux, AIX)
- Resourcefulness and problem-solving aptitude
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge and experience in advanced network system design and access technologies.
- Ability to analyze, coordinate, and manage multiple technologies and concepts effectively
- Outstanding organizational, technical and managerial skills to creatively formulate, interpret, and integrate a large number of complex issues and problems
- Expertise with local area networking (LAN) and wide area networking (WAN) environments
- Strong communication and people skills
- Experienced in project management and establishing protocols for system development
- Ability to analyze, coordinate, and manage multiple technologies, resources and concepts effectively
- Extensive knowledge VMware, Windows, network principles and troubleshooting
About Us
Build your career with us
At Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children and Madison Hospital, you’ll find meaningful work, supportive teams and opportunities to grow within a locally governed, nonprofit health system committed to the communities we serve. Our workplace culture has earned national recognition, including Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces in Health Care 2026 and Forbes’ America’s Best-in-State Employers 2025. Huntsville Hospital is the region’s primary referral center for advanced and specialty care, home to a specialized Orthopedic & Spine Tower, a Level III Regional Neonatal ICU and North Alabama’s Level I Trauma Center. Together, our three Madison County hospitals have 971 licensed beds and offer career opportunities across a wide range of specialties and care settings. Employees have access to continuing education, Shared Governance, Clinical Ladder, Nurse Residency, tuition assistance, child care, wellness resources, an on-site employee pharmacy and health clinic, and more. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and a partner in the U.S. Army Partnership for Your Success (PaYS) Program.
Huntsville Hospital Benefits:
We are committed to providing competitive benefits. Our benefits package for eligible employees includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending; short term and long term disability; several retirement account options with 401K organization match; nurse residency program; tuition assistance; student loan reimbursement; On-site training and education opportunities; Employee Discounts to phone providers, local restaurants, tickets to shows, apartment application and much more!
Learn more about Huntsville Hospital Health System:
- Careers: https://careers.hhsys.org/careers-home
- Benefits: https://careers.hhsys.org/why-hh-health/benefits/benefits-at-huntsville-hospital/
- Education & Professional Development: https://www.huntsvillehospital.org/education
- Life In Huntsville: https://www.huntsvillehospital.org/about-huntsville-al