Windows Administrator

**Role: Lead Windows Administrator**

• *Location: Montreal Canada (Onsite)**
• *Duration: Fulltime**
• *CANDIDATE DETAILS**
• *10+ to 15 years experience**

Seniority Level - Mid-Senior

Minimum Education - Bachelor's Degree

Willingness to Travel - Occasionally

• *Responsibilities**
• Experience leading team of 5-10 people
• Vulnerability remediation.
• Expert in Configuring and administering windows server 2008/2012/2016.
• Good understanding of Exchange 2016 and Outlook related issues.
• Maintain servers both physical and VM environment with maximum uptime.
• Mastered in trouble shooting windows OS issues, handling escalated L3 issues in windows environment.
• Firm understanding of Windows security including file system permissions, file sharing, event logging, performance monitoring and disk administration.
• Good understanding of Active Directory and Network Infrastructure, Forest and Domain Infrastructure.
• Responsible for third-level support for all server related issues. Implemented security policy and virus protection.
• Participate in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations and patch management.
• Preparation and maintenance of documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
• Administration of server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks.
• Assist in P2V and V2V conversion of Windows server editions using enterprise VMware converter and also installed the VMware tools on that machines.
• Hardening and Monitoring of VM's ESX server’s CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization for Security Compliance.
• Server hardware troubleshooting by using through ILO and HP SIM.
• Hardware firmware upgrade for physical servers like HP, Dell and IBM.
• Performance optimization, regular health checks on servers and Systematic Troubleshooting of problems.
• Involved in Customizing VM's Memory, hard disk, NIC and Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring.
• Install racked and stacked HP ProLiant Blade Servers, Dell Power Edge Servers in multiple data centers. Familiar with HP ILO, Dell Tools.
• Create new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the Client.
• Involve in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA's.
• Perform necessary analysis to provide all required evidences to support the project requirements.
• Handle day-to-day incidents and requests arising in the environment with respect to Windows within SLA.
• Provide escalation support for Windows team.
• Manage and complete assigned projects
• Must be willing to handle varying shifts.
• *SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS** [note: bold skills and certification are required]
• *Windows**
• *Vmware**
• *Active Directory**
• *Incident Management**
• *Change Management**
• *Leadership skills**

Pay: $58,226.44-$96,269.59 per year

• *Experience**:
• system administration: 9 years (required)

Work Location: In person