Senior Microsoft System Administrator

BAE Systems Strategic Aerospace Services WLL | Full time

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

Requirements

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.

Backup Administration (HP, IBM, Cloud)

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.

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.

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 firmware 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.

General Requirements

10+ years and minimum 4 years relevant experience.

Bachelor's / master’s degree in computer science or Equivalent.

Proven skills and experience in a 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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