Senior IT Administrator

About the role

Umer & Company, an IBM Business Partner selling IBM products and supporting integrations between systems and trading partners, is hiring a senior IT Administrator for its new Lahore office. The role is an ownership position: you decide what the office runs on, keep it running and answer for it when things break. The office is staffed to support clients during U.S. business hours.

Key responsibilities

• Own power and backup: inverters, UPS, generator and stabilizers sized to real load and tested regularly.
• Ensure internet stability with multiple ISPs, automatic failover, alerting and evidence-based ISP escalation.
• Manage infrastructure: racks, cabling, endpoints, servers, hypervisors, VMs, storage and Microsoft 365.
• Write specifications, compare vendor quotes on total cost and enforce service levels.
• Prepare a costed two- to three-year plan, ranked by what it protects or unlocks.
• Handle patching, access reviews, tested restores, surveillance and access control on a calendar.
• Guide the support staff, run projects to scope, cost and date, and flag slippage early.

Required profile

• 8+ years in IT or system administration, including 2 years owning an environment or running an IT function.
• DAE (CIT), BSIT, BSCS or related degree.
• Record of delivery you can talk through, leadership of juniors and clear communication outside IT.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with inverter, UPS and generator-backed power, including load and runtime calculations.
• Cisco, MikroTik, UniFi or Huawei networking: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, VPN, firewalls, Wi-Fi.
• Servers and virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox), Windows Server, Windows 10/11 and Active Directory.
• RFPs and vendor management, and project delivery to scope, cost and date.
• CCNA, HCIA, CompTIA or Microsoft certifications preferred.

To apply, send your resume to the company's HR team with the subject line "Application for IT Admin - Umerco".