Senior Microsoft System Administrator

The Microsoft Senior System Administrator will be responsible to manage the day-to-day activities of Microsoft systems administrations.

Responsibilities

• 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 backup issues.
• Create and maintain documentation for backup.
• Perform 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.
• Administrate and manage the storage solution.
• Create Raid Group, LUNs / Volumes as per the size requirement from customer.
• Create zones between storage array and hosts on the SAN switches.
• Map 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 alerts from the storage and other SAN components.
• Coordinate with vendor and plan Storage / SAN switch firmware upgrades on a regular basis.
• Gather new requirements from the 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.

Qualifications

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