SA Engineering and Provisioning

• Install new/rebuild/migrate existing windows servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.  Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.
• Document all processes, procedures and operations for both internal needs and end users when required.  Ensure that all Sys Admin projects are documented, including design documents, ongoing status reports, and summary reports.

 Operations and Support

• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Perform regular security monitoring/audit to identify any possible intrusions.
• Perform periodic DR drills and comply with audit requirements such as vulnerability assessments drills.
• Provide Tier III/other support per request from various technology functions.  Investigate and troubleshoot issues.

 Maintenance

• Apply windows OS and 3^rd party patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.  Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

Team working, Coaching/Development & Leadership (Coaching & Leadership applicable to people managers)

• Strong interpersonal skills, gets along well with others.
• Strong analytical & problem solving skills.
• Able to multi-task, can manage and prioritize several projects to meet deadlines.

Communicating, negotiating & influencing

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, understands and communicates both inside & outside the organization.
• Prepare RFP and evaluate RFP response.

Decision Making

• Performs with minimal supervision, works well independently.
• Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and wants to learn new technologies.

• Bachelor Degree (4 years) in IT or equivalent with a technical major.
• MSCE (server 2012), ITIL V3

• 5 years of Experience in system administration.
• Knowledge of Systems Administration in Microsoft Windows environment and experience in VMware

• Working knowledge of MS-Exchange, Active Directory, System Centre, Lync, windows clusters PKI, MS-SQL, AD Federation and Symantec Enterprise vault.
• Working knowledge of VMWare 5, and 3+ years of experience working in a highly virtualized environment
• Working knowledge of standard infrastructure tools (DHCP, DNS, NTP, SYSLOG, SSH, SFTP, GPO, etc.)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL databases
• Experience with load balancing of web technologies on the F5 platform
• Working knowledge of Microsoft PowerShell, or other scripting languages
• Demonstrated understanding and adherence of change-control process management
• Demonstrated solid understanding of Windows internals, performance tuning and general systems trouble shooting skills
• Knowledge on identity management tools such as FIM is desired
• VMware/Citrix/HP/EMC/PMP certification will be of added advantage.