Waste Connections is a leading provider of integrated solid waste services, offering non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, and disposal, including rail services. The company also emphasizes resource recovery through recycling and renewable fuels generation. Serving about nine million residential, commercial, and industrial customers, Waste Connections operates in exclusive and secondary markets across 46 U.S. states and six Canadian provinces. The Information Systems department is seeking a Systems Administrator **,** to be based out of the company’s Woodlands, TX. corporate office. The System Administrator will play a hands-on role in installing, administering, and optimizing company servers, network hardware, and related components. This position aims to ensure high performance of the information systems that support core organizational functions. Key responsibilities include ensuring the availability of client/server applications, configuring new implementations, and developing processes and procedures for the ongoing management of the server and network hardware environment. **Key Accountabilities:** + Ability to perform a wide range of system administration duties on database, application, and other servers including install, debug, maintain, upgrade, and general support. + Responsible for day-to-day maintenance including user account management and security, installation of systems and software, installation of system patches, and documenting systems, configurations and operational instructions. + Evaluate, test, and deploy software and hardware upgrades to the server infrastructure. + Proactive monitoring of servers, applications and services using a combination of tools to ensure high availability and service level agreements. + Perform regular and on-demand system backups and recoveries, monitor for daily success. + Interface with vendors for procurement and maintenance of IT infrastructure. + Work closely with the IT team to provide end-user support and issue resolution as an escalation from our Service Desk. + Create and maintain documentation for processes and procedures. **Preferred Qualifications:** + Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or related computer field required. + Experience: 5-7 years in Systems Administration, server hardware assembly, testing, and deployment. + Proficiency with Palo Alto, Zscaler, Cloudflare, Proofpoint, Azure, and AWS. + Highly self-motivated and directed; logical and efficient with strong problem-solving skills; ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment under minimum supervision. + Experience in installing, provisioning, and managing servers in a Virtualized environment; VMware experience preferred. + Advanced knowledge of installations, upgrades and troubleshooting of Azure Services, Office365 Administration, Intune, Autopilot, Domain Controller, Windows Server 2016, 2019 +, Application, Database, Web, Print and File servers. Experience with IIS, SQL Server, SCOM and PowerShell highly desirable. + Strong technical aptitude and ability to research and solve complex issues independently. + Excellent communication skills, verbal & written, as well as receptive listening skills, with the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise fashion to technical and non-technical audiences. + Well-developed interpersonal skills; must be tactful, mature, flexible and customer service oriented. **Waste Connections is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability or protected veteran status.**