About Davis Graham & Stubbs

For over a century, Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP (DGS) has ranked among the region's most prominent law firms, consistently offering quality legal services to emerging and established businesses of the Rocky Mountain West. While the firm's Denver location and intermediate size allow a close personal relationship with local and regional clients, our technology and broad experience allow us to partner effectively with businesses and their investors throughout the world. DGS serves clients nationally and internationally, with a strong focus on corporate finance and governance, mergers and acquisitions, natural resources, environmental law, real estate, intellectual property, and complex litigation. Our lawyers have experience working with companies in the energy, mining, technology, hospitality, private equity, manufacturing, asset management, and aviation industries.

Summary

Provide network, system engineering, and support of all firm-wide infrastructure and server equipment, related operating systems, management tools, and main functionality during core business hours, scheduled maintenance periods, and after-hours support, as required. Primary technical engineering ownership and tier 2 support and management for products/technologies that encompass the network and systems, related operating systems, and functionality (Azure, Office365, Cabling, Routing/Switching hardware, UPS, Internet, Firewall, Windows Operating Systems, Windows Active Directory, protocols, Exchange, various management utilities, system patches/updates, server anti-virus, and enterprise backups). Participation and contribution in all technology projects and initiatives.

Essential Functions

• Technical, administrative, and tier 2 support of firmwide on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure and server equipment, related operating systems, management technologies, and industry/practice-specific systems
• Responsible for Azure topology, design, installation, maintenance, management, and upgrades
• Responsible for Azure VDI topology, design, installation, maintenance, management, and upgrades
• Responsible for on-prem topology/LAN design, installation, maintenance, management, and upgrades
• Responsible for Internet, firewall/proxy design, installation, maintenance, management, and upgrades
• Responsible for remote access design, installation, maintenance, management, and upgrades
• Responsible for network security and access
• Troubleshooting and resolution of network infrastructure problems, issues, and conflicts
• Manages warranty, service, and life cycle of all network infrastructure equipment
• Responsible for computer room/server design, installation, maintenance, and management
• Manages warranty, service, and life cycle of all server equipment
• Design, installation, maintenance and management of directory/domain schema, administrative structure, and functions
• Design, development, configuration, testing, maintenance, and updates of the firm’s network operating system standard build
• Design, development, configuration, testing, maintenance, and updates of the firm’s functional systems (messaging, database, document management, industry/practice applications, file/print and web technologies)
• Determine applicable network operating system extension utilities and integrated software
• Troubleshooting and resolution of network operating system and functional system problems, issues, and conflicts
• Responsible for UPS design, installation, maintenance, and management
• Building and maintaining of a network/system lab for testing and integration of technologies
• Oversees all network and server hardware assets and maintains inventory of deployed, lab, reserved and retired equipment
• Manages and establishes operational maintenance downtime for network and systems
• Ensures network and system uptime, high availability, and scalability
• Prepares time and cost estimates for related project needs
• Liaison for applicable network and system vendors and service providers
• Contribution to technology guidelines, policies, and procedures
• Assist as required with desktop engineering and system/operations administration efforts
• Participation and contribution in all technology-related projects and initiatives
• Rotating emergency on-call schedule (1 week on 6 weeks off)
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills/Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• A minimum of 5 years in a network/system engineering owner/support role
• Excellent technical knowledge of network and server hardware, operating systems, utilities, and management tools
• Excellent technical knowledge of Azure and Office365
• Excellent technical knowledge of network/system operations and maintenance updates
• Excellent knowledge of networks and client/server technology
• Solid knowledge of firm-wide standard hardware and software (reference standard hardware and software lists)
• Motivated and accountable
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Team player with an operational attitude
• Demonstrated ability and desire to learn new technologies and skills

Supervisory Role

No supervisory role

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment with the ability to work from home. This role routinely uses standard office equipment. Because this position will be handling client information, employees must work from a home office and not a public location during any remote periods.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

Full Time Position with Benefits Eligibility; M – F, 8:00am – 5:00pm MST, scheduled maintenance windows weekly Sunday 2:00 – 5:00am MST, and after-hours support as required

Required Education and Experience

Associate’s Degree, or 5 years relevant on the job work experience

Preferred Education and Experience

Bachelor’s Degree

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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Davis Graham & Stubbs provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, genetic information, military status or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.