Senior Microsoft System Administrator

• Microsoft server 2012R2/2016/etc. management and administration.

• Perform periodic patch management for all servers in the environment and provide respective reports.

• On premises hypervisor management [VMware technology, Oracle VM].

• Perform ongoing performance tuning and resource optimization as required.

• Perform regular Active directory administration as well as ADFS management.

• Antivirus management

• Administrate and Manage SCCM solution.

• Manage Azure Cloud Managed Services, O365 and Citrix DaaS including Access management, conditional access, Defender, Endpoint management

• Administrate and maintain the backup solution and its components.

• Ensure the backup retention policy matches the customer requirements

• Gather backup requirements and follow the best practices to configure and test new backups.

• Troubleshoot backup job failures and propose solutions.

• Work with Product support vendor for escalating the backup issues.

• Create and maintain documentation for backup.

• Performing test restore on quarterly basis to ensure a reliable data backup version is available to restore.

• Forecast backup repository space requirements to the client for every year

• Manage licensing and assure notifying the customer early enough for renewal. Storage Administration

• Administrate and manage the storage solution

• Create Raid Group, LUNs/Volumes as per the size requirement from customer

• Create Zones between Storage array and the hosts on the SAN switches

• Map the New LUNs to the associated host/host groups

• Ensure the LUN is visible on the required Hosts

• Ensure the Multipathing is enabled on the OS end

• Troubleshoot the alerts from the Storage and other SAN components

• Coordinate with vendor and plan Storage/SAN Switches FW upgrade on regular basis

• Gather the new requirements from customer and follow vendor guidelines to Create and Map new LUNs

• Perform regular storage tasks such as volume expansion, deletion…etc.

• Azure storage account administration and management.

• 10+ years and minimum 4 years relevant experience

• Bachelors / master’s degree in computer science or Equivalent.

• Relevant Microsoft Certifications

• Proven skills and experience in the similar role.

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

• Ability to convey complex technical information concisely.

• A high level of motivation in learning new technologies.

• Hard worker, self-motivated and result-driven individual.

• Willing to work in non-standard working hours.

• Ability to work well in groups and independently.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

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