Server Engineer bei City of Atlanta

Job Posting Expiration: 11/3/25

Salary Range: $80,594.95 - $107,594.26
Hiring Department: Department of Aviation

General Description and Classification Standards:

Defines, designs and implements network communications and solutions. 

Supervision Received:

This is a fully seasoned professional level (senior level) capable of carrying out most assignments typical of the profession with limited guidance or review.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

These are typical responsibilities for this position and should not be construed as exclusive or all inclusive.

• Installs, integrates, and maintains, the security system and supports new and existing corporate Widows Server.
• Oversees both on-premise datacenters and virtual datacenters within various cloud platforms.
• Manages single resource and multi-resource internal team projects.
• Designs, plans and manages deployment of new and multi-specialty technologies.
• Plans, designs and implements an Active Directory migration.
• Monitors and administers appropriate systems to ensure systems and services availability, peak performance, and modifications to existing environments are effective and efficient.
• Provides assessment, costing, design, planning and management of new projects and processes.
• Documents all systems procedures, systems practices, job responsibilities and job processes.
• Administers and provides technical support for various system and network software packages including electronic mail, databases, file services, print services, anti-virus, backup, monitoring, etc.
• Configures backup solutions to protect data and applications and tests the restore process to ensure data can be recovered in case of a failure.
• Implements enhancements to servers to improve performance and reliability.
• Develops a disaster recovery plan.
• Makes purchasing or resource allocation decisions within organization guidelines as required.
• Recommends, schedules, and performs software and hardware improvements, upgrades, patches, reconfigurations, and/or purchases.
• Applies organizational policies; interprets organizational policies and recommend exceptions as needed. 
• Establishes work methods, timetables, performance standards, etc. 
• Provides work group leadership, guidance, and/or training to less experienced staff. 
• Serves as a technical resource or mentor to other employees. 
• May perform other duties as assigned.

The above statements reflect the general duties, responsibilities and competencies considered necessary to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job and should not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements of the position. COA may change the specific job duties with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

This is a partial listing of necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the job successfully, it is not an exhaustive list.

• Well-developed network technical skills. 
• Skills in organizing and presenting information, proposals, etc.
• Ability to plan and carry out virtually all typical assignments within network administration. 
• Ability to build effective relationships within the City and to train others.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education and Experience – Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (equivalent professional experience may be considered for substitution for the required degree on an exception basis); and

Five (5) years of specific network experience. 

Licensures and Certifications – None.

Preferred Requirements – Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (equivalent professional experience may be considered for substitution for the degree on an exception basis) with five (5) – eight (8) years of experience that is directly related professional work.

Work Environment:

Required physical, lifting, and sensory capabilities are requirements to perform the job successfully. Typical environmental conditions associated with job.