A Legacy of Excellence

Entertaining Your World

Jacobs Entertainment, Inc. (JEI) is a developer, owner and operator of gaming and entertainment facilities across the United States. Core to the company’s value is our commitment to ethical leadership, outstanding training, and open employee communication.

Jacobs Entertainment is currently in search of an “IT Systems Administrator Level I” for our corporate office in Lakewood. If you are seeking an opportunity where your contributions and skills will be both valued and your ability to influence change will be immediate, we would love to speak with you.

Our employees are supported with a comprehensive benefits program that include the following:

• $200 Referral Bonus
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ongoing learning and development programs
• Work towards your future advancement within the company—most of our supervisors and managers are promoted from within
• 7 paid Holidays
• 80 hours of Vacation after 1 year of employment
• 48 Hours of Paid Sick Leave available immediately and renews annually
• We offer a variety of affordable medical, dental, vision and flexible spending account plans after 60 days
• Employee Assistance Program FREE of charge
• Company paid Life Insurance and AD&D
• Matching 401K program after 90 days

Essential Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Participate in surveillance departmental meetings to understand strategic goals, initiatives, and communicate them to the IT department
• Communicate ongoing or upcoming system resource needs to IT to ensure optimal efficiency
• Ability to gain an understanding of operational processes and needs as it relates to technology and work effectively with operational staff in the coordination of projects and identifying operational technology needs
• Keeps equipment, hardware, and software updated to meet organizational needs
• Recommends appropriate maintenance strategies to ensure uninterrupted systems usage
• Recommends adjustments to systems to ensure cost efficient and effective systems infrastructure
• Ensure the continual functioning of mission critical operations
• Maintain security and privacy of the systems
• Develop, review, and certify all system-related back-ups and disaster recovery procedures and plans
• Keeps current with technology updates to ensure technology opportunities are taken advantage of, whether the opportunities relate to speed, improved processing, cost efficiencies, etc.
• Evaluates new systems or services and suggests changes to existing system

Skills, Education and Other Requirements:

• Required Certifications
• • • VMware or equivalent
    • Two of the following or equivalent
    • • MCP
      • CCNA
      • ITIL

• College courses or certified systems administration training, or 3 year’s equivalent work experience
• Ability to adapt quickly to a dynamic work place
• Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, takes risks, supports change, encourages innovation, solves problems creatively
• Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses consensus when possible, communicates decisions to others
• Has an awareness of, researches and adopts effective technologies that improve the bottom line, works well with tech resources
• Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems
• Ability to effectively communicate technology, infrastructure and process needs and requirements with all personnel levels; oral and written communication
• Ability to manage multiple projects a work with multiple levels of staff.
• Must be able to work a very flexible shift including weekends, nights and holidays when necessary
• Must possess valid Colorado as well as Nevada Gaming License and other applicable licensure as required
• Identification that establishes identity
• Identification that establishes the right to work in the United States