Senior Server Administrator

Server Senior Administrator

About the role
The Server Senior Administrator is responsible for the installation, maintenance, and support of server infrastructure to ensure the operation of global systems in order to provide performance and availability for its users, such as staff, customers, and suppliers.

Responsibilities:
Responsible for providing, planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of complex business initiatives to be actioned upon.
Provide technical support and resolve requests around the system’s technology verticals.
Acts as SME escalation on-site and on-call support within the internal IT Server Operations team for high-severity issues, VIP service requests, in-progress projects, and vendors.
Work hand in hand with other technology teams to provide solutions to end-user needs.
Documentation and implementation of standard and Normal Changes and support for Emergency Changes.
Work along with other teams to plan and deploy patches and or upgrades to the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environment's entire stack.
Perform peer reviews for Method of Procedure and enforce Policies and standardization.
Operates medium to highly complex tasks on Proxmox, Cisco M7 standalone servers
Expertise in support Cloud technologies as GCP, AWS, Azure (IaC Tools) (Terraform, Phyton, YAML, Typescript) (Automation)
Configure System settings as per global policies and standardization.
Operate Virtual platforms configure and operate DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, NTP,
Shared Folder Services, Proxies, Windows Operating Systems, and related technologies.
Provides Support to Global Security Audits acting as POC from IT Server Operations Team within the Auditor Interviews and evidence asks.
Collaborate with Engineering New Client Launches and new technology projects (tasks), enabling new business and features.
Perform other project-related duties as requested by management, hardware and software maintenance on servers, devices/cloud, and virtual services.
Build and maintain process documentation SOP's

Skills:

Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Teamwork and remote work skills.
Ability to respond to External & Internal requests
Fast adaptation to technology changes
Proactive

Knowledge:
Windows Active Directory strong knowledge and practice background
Hands on experience working with in Data Centers environment and physical servers.
Windows Infrastructure Services: DHCP, DNS, DFS, WSUS, NTP, WSFC, and Certificates.
Common troubleshooting knowledge for multi-tiered architecture.
Power Shell Scripting and Bash Shell Scripting.
Net App and Virtual

SAN knowledge and practice background.
Cisco M7 and Dell Servers Knowledge (VxRail + Hyper Converge/Hyperflex)
Cloud technologies knowledge, including but not limited to GCP, Azure, AWS,
Linux knowledge: administration, maintenance, and deployment.
Miscellaneous application services:
Squid, IIS, Apache, SFTP, TFTP, Postfix, etc.
Knowledge in cloud interaction in any/all of these technologies: GCP, Azure, and AWS.
(IaC Tools) (Terraform, Python, YAML, Typescript) (Automation) for Cloud GCP

Studies &

Experience:

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Information Systems degree.
VCA DBT—VMware Certified Associate (desirable)
GCP Cloud engineer, Cloud Architect (IaC Tools) (Terraform, Python, YAML, Typescript) (Automation) (desirable)
MCSA - Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (desirable)
VCP DTM - VMWare Certified Professional Desktop and Mobility (desirable)
Experience in Virtualization, Proxmox, VMWare and Virtual Desktop Environments
Experience in Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, and the entire Windows stack.
Infrastructure Management, Physical Servers, Physical Storage, etc.
A minimum of 8+ years of experience in a systems development role. mandatory