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Windows Server Administrator - Mid and senior
Houston, TX 77082 United States
Posted: 10/01/2024
2024-10-01
2024-11-07
Job Number: z5G7h3l6a1kMvyS65NP3c7LLDJPZqioMvn1P39KEAC0=
Pay Rate: N/A Hourly USD
Job Description
Position: Windows Server Administrator - Mid
Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid)
Duration: 24 Months with EXT
MUST HAVE SKILLS
Technical Skills-
- - Strong Windows Server Administration with scripting experience, DevOps Principles and Practices, Load Balancing and Firewall experience
- Candidate should have strong Windows Server Administration experience familiar with Application Development (or at least around deployment and hosting in a web server or windows services) and have a mindset of wanting to automate everything.
- The background of the roles, these positions will be maintaining our on-prem environments through patching, releasing, configuring Windows environments(familiar with AWS cloud would be a bonus) and actively involved in our Technology Lifecycle Management upgrading our infrastructure from old Operating Systems to newer Operating Systems
- Responsible for the evaluation, implementation, and ongoing support of various platforms (hardware, operating systems, software, and systems tools).
- Provide consultation and direct technical support in problem management, integration, and systems programming. Implement releases, upgrades, and/or changes into the environment.
- Ensure platform performance and availability meet design criteria and objectives through monitoring, timely service restoration, and tuning.
- Duties may include system implementation, system maintenance/administration, and troubleshooting and diagnostics.
- Perform root cause analysis to quickly recover from service interruptions, and to prevent recurring problems
- Provide technical support, as needed, to the enterprise
- Consult with other business units (e.g. application groups, DBAs, middleware, etc.) to configure platforms for product installation and ongoing support
- Design and document enterprise standards and procedures
- Ensure platforms/systems conform to established enterprise/industry standards (systems management, firewalls, security, operating systems, etc.) and reference models
- Implement changes to platforms with minimal impact to the business by following enterprise standards and procedures
- Monitor, manage, and tune platforms to ensure expected availability and performance levels are achieved
- Provide on-site, and on-call 7x24x365 support, as needed. Will mostly work within office hours.
- Coordinate activities with internal/external technology owners/service providers
- Plan and implement life cycle management of software and hardware
- Keep abreast of industry and technology trends
- Understand technical/business requirements gathered from the business units
- Application Migration to Different Windows OS Platforms (2012, 2016 2019, 2022)
- Analyze, design, and document platforms/systems to meet enterprise requirements
- Install, customize, maintain, test, and troubleshoot operating systems and other systems software
- Configure, install, maintain, test, and troubleshoot hardware systems
Technical Skills-
- Strong knowledge of Windows 2016, 2012, and 2008 server
- Strong knowledge of IIS including virtual directory and app pool configuration and troubleshooting
- Application server loads and configuration
- Microsoft Technology Stack - browser, .NET, IIS 7/8, MSSQL Databases
- Apache Tomcat
- Share Level and NTFS Level Permissions
- Knowledge of DFS and SAN technologies (NetApp)
- Global Active Directory Domain Knowledge
- BigIP F5 LTM Load Balancing concepts
- Multi-Data Center, Multi-Zone Environment familiarity and understanding
- Knowledge of MSSQL database structure and queries
- Knowledge of MSSQL Cluster Environments
- Knowledge and Ability to troubleshoot Network/Firewall issues
- Knowledge of how Domain Name System (DNS) works
- Knowledge of Powershell/Batch scripting, Python
- BigPanda, Datadog, AppDynamics APM (Application Performance Monitoring) knowledge
- Understanding of DevOps Practices and Principles
- Application Development - Build/Test/Deploy automation and strategy (TeamCity/TFS)
- BS/BA, preferably in Information Technology or Business or equivalent experience, education, or training
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