Sr Windows Administrator Jobs

This role is responsible for the support of production and non-production Windows servers from a systems administration perspective.
Location: 100% Remote
Position Type: Full time employee
Major Duties:

• Support existing server infrastructure in a 24x7 on-call capacity as part of a team rotation
• Punctual, regular, and consistent attendance
• Administration and support of the MS Exchange Office 365 environment
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Maintain backup systems including monitoring backup jobs to ensure jobs are completed successfully, managing data retention and storage, adding new devices and hosts to the backup system and processing restore/recovery requests.
• Maintain system security.
• Interact with infrastructure engineering team members to improve standards and support procedures.
• Communicate effectively with peer employees and senior management.
• Respond to escalated incidents and provide Windows system administration subject matter expertise to resolve associated incidents.
• Administer, maintain and support the Active Directory environment.
• Recommend and implement changes to existing Windows (hardware and OS) infrastructure including patches, users, drives, registry settings, etc.
• Document operating and deployment procedures for other team members to follow.
• Perform assigned duties independently with moderate management oversight.
• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware and OS problems (including performance tuning) and provide root cause analysis in a continual improvement model.
• Administer the virtual infrastructure including creating new VMs and templates, adding new VLANs and storage.
• Oversee key operational projects from a system administration perspective such as OS upgrades, storage array migrations, etc.
• Perform hardware and OS capacity planning for existing applications, providing recommendations to application owners and implementing solutions to allow for application and database expansion and performance.

Preferred Education:

• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification
• Bachelor’s Degree (MIS or Computer Science) or equivalent IT work experience

Required Skills:

• Experience with Windows Active Directory, SCOM, SCCM, SCVMM, DPM, and PowerShell
• Expert in designing, deploying, administering, troubleshooting, and tuning Windows systems in a medium to large enterprise environment.
• Creative, self-motivated team player
• Excellent oral/written communication and inter-personal skills
• 5-7 years' experience as a Windows systems administrator with 24x7 on-call rotation responsibilities
• Basic networking skills
• Experience supporting Microsoft SQL Server in standalone and clustered modes with Microsoft Cluster
• Experience with SMBV1 - SMBV3
• Experience with VMWare/Xen/KVM/OVM/Hyper-V
• Experience with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
• Windows vs 2012 - 2019
• Experience in administering Windows servers attached to enterprise-level storage arrays (EMC, Hitachi, HP, etc)
• Experience with cloud computing
• Proven analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities.

Additional Skills:

• Experience with System Center Orchestrator
• Windows 2019
• Experience with SQL Server and MS Cluster from and SA perspective
• Integration with Oracle Products