Senior Windows Server Engineer # 26-26782
About The Position
The Senior Windows Server Engineer will architect and provide expert-level support and strategy for the production Windows server environment. The role maintains proactive performance monitoring and participates in day-to-day support, administration, and projects for Windows infrastructure and applications. It supports a trading environment and Windows systems across the Americas region, while helping ensure reliability, availability, resiliency, and compliance with group standards and best practices. The position is an 11-month assignment and includes weekend work and 24/7 on-call support on a team rotation.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of experience preferred.
- Expert knowledge of Windows operating systems: 2022, 2019, 2016, and 2012, and enterprise components and technologies including domains, DNS, registries, DHCP, and WINS.
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft cluster technologies and strategies, including server clustering and network and component load balancing.
- Strong knowledge of Active Directory.
- Good knowledge of VMware vSphere and associated products, such as vCenter and SRM.
- Strong knowledge of performance management and capacity planning.
- Strong knowledge of SAN/EMC storage, including different SRDF types.
- Strong knowledge of installing Windows Server 2022 and later on industry-standard hardware, including HP, IBM, Dell, and blade servers.
- Good working knowledge of networking functions, including TCP/IP, SNMP, subnetting, and routing.
- Knowledge of relational databases such as Sybase, Oracle, and SQL, as well as MQ Series.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Project management and documentation skills.
- Service-oriented, positive, committed, and enthusiastic team player.
- Able to work weekends and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
- Proficient in English.
Nice To Haves
- Hyper-V knowledge.
- Knowledge of IIS and .NET.
- Knowledge of F5.
- Working knowledge of Dynatrace monitoring.
Responsibilities
- Support a trading environment consisting of Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022 systems and participate in planning and implementing new projects.
- Proactively monitor the virtual environment for capacity, stress, risk, and workload, and take necessary remediation steps.
- Build and support Microsoft Failover Clusters, including stretch clusters.
- Maintain the Windows environment in the Americas region across all business lines.
- Coordinate with vendors and internal global teams to ensure the environment conforms to current standards.
- Manage business continuance in relation to disaster recovery.
- Maintain high system reliability, availability, and resiliency.
- Provide first-, second-, and third-level support for production environments.
- Perform proactive system performance monitoring using Geneos, Dynatrace, and HP/DELL/IBM tools, along with capacity management.
- Perform system upgrades and mandatory security and operating-system patching.
- Work with application support teams to gather requirements, design, and deploy standard systems.
- Implement projects for all business lines.
- Provide 24/7 on-call support on a team rotation and perform morning checks on critical applications using existing tools or scripts.
- Follow company policies and procedures for change and incident management.
- Ensure systems are deployed consistently with group standards and best practices.
- Take ownership of production incidents and problems and work with the team to resolve them.
- Follow group security practices and maintain an accurate, current system inventory.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
