Windows Server Specialist

Job Title: Windows Server Specialist

Job Description

• Drive ongoing efforts to achieve a proactive IT operation. • Deploy, upgrade, or migrate a specific Microsoft technology following proven best practices. • Uncover the root cause of IT issues. • Build new skills to improve IT services and support.

You will be responsible for customer satisfaction, deployment, adoption, and support of Windows Server / Client initiatives. Assist customers in building, deploying, operating, and optimizing complex enterprise environments. This job has proven to be a career accelerator for hundreds of engineers over the years. You will be a trusted advisor, a specialist the room is looking to for guidance, education and adherence for best practices, risk mitigation etc.

Roles and Responsibilities and day to day activities:

• Expert of the Windows servers 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 and 2022.
• Good knowledge of Active Directory . Experience with Active Directory and group policies, multi-forest multidomain environment knowledge
• Expert in VMware technology
• Maintenance and deployment of the MS Windows OS ( Physical / virtual)
• Responsible for daily operations of Windows based servers running in a mixed physical and virtual (VMware ESX) environment.
• Manage high availability of servers and services.
• Design, rollout and maintain Active directory Forest and Domain along with Domain Trust relationships, replication, and rollout.
• Experience with WSUS servers and clustered filesystems
• Knowledge of Power Shell scripting
• Support of file and print services, RADIUS, DNS and DHCP, Domain Controller replication, and organizational unit management. - Capable of using writing scripts in either MS PowerShell or VBScript
• Installation/Upgrade and maintenance of Windows Operating system
• Knowledge in Azure AD
• Installation and configuration of IIS 6, II7
• Co-coordinating with Hardware vendor for regular maintenance of server hardware and resolving hardware issues.
• Windows Security Patch and Antivirus installation.
• Responsible for setup, configuration, and troubleshooting of complex Windows environments (e.g., clustering, high availability, load balancing, etc.).
• Ongoing management and maintenance of Windows servers. Execute pre-defined tasks and tasks as instructed. Recover from minor system failures/partial failures.
• Responsible for the implementation, operation, maintenance, backup, system security and system integrity of Microsoft Operating systems .Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.

Key Skills required:

• Networking L3 Must Have
• Windows Server L3 Must Have
• RDS L2 Must Have
• Window Cluster L3 Must Have
• DNS L3 Must Have
• DHCP L3 Must Have
• VMWare L2 Must Have
• RCA L3 Must Have
• Client Handling L3 Must Have
• Communication Skills L3 Must Have
• AD (DFS, Group Policy - L3,
• AD Restoration, Upgrade,
• Domain Migration) L3 Must Have
• Willing to Work 24/7 L3 Must Have
• PowerShell L3 Good to Have
• IIS L2 Good to Have
• Certificate Authority L3 Good to Have

Key Skills required:

• Windows Server L3 Must Have
• RDS L2 Must Have
• Window Cluster L3 Must Have
• DNS L3 Must Have
• DHCP L3 Must Have
• RCA L3 Must Have
• Client Handling L3 Must Have
• Communication Skills L3 Must Have
• AD (DFS, Group Policy - L3,
• AD Restoration, Upgrade,
• Domain Migration) L3 Must Have
• Willing to Work 24/7 L3 Must Have
• PowerShell L3 Good to Have
• IIS L2 Good to Have
• Certificate Authority L3 Good to Have

Overall activities/responsibilities with Client (not limited to only below):

• 100% Technical Leadership quality and handling escalations.
• Conversing with stakeholders/business/application owners.
• Driving troubleshooting and providing clear action plans, follow up to closure.
• Collaborating & partnering with team members internally & externally.

Non-Technical/Soft Skills:

• Strong Communication.
• Knowledge transfer and Presentation Skills
• Ability to handle tough situations/spots.
• Commitment/ownership/accountability.
• Confident/Authoritative in handling customers/clients.
• Ability to propose delivery roadmap based on opportunities.
• Thrive to learn constantly.

Location:

IND Pune - RMZ 1st Floor (Sublease to CIND)

Time Type: Full time