Senior Windows System Administrator

JOB TITLE SENIOR WINDOWS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
NATIONAL OCCUPATION CODE 20012
POSITION TYPE PERMANENT, FULL-TIME
The Senior Windows System Administrator will provide direct technical and administrative support to high-availability production systems in a medium enterprise-level manufacturing environment.
You will play a key role in provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware, software and related infrastructure, including participation in technical research and development to enable continuous improvements and innovation to our infrastructure.
What You’ll Do
System Administration and Provisioning

• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.
• Engineering of Microsoft Windows systems solutions for various project and operational needs.
• Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.

Operations and Support

• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, repair and recover from hardware or software failures.

Maintenance

• Deploy software packages to workstations using Microsoft SCCM.
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
• Maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
• Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures.
• Perform periodic performance reporting and ongoing performance tuning.

Who You Are

• Committed to teamwork with the ability to make quality contributions toward team goals.
• Detailed oriented with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks while meeting deadlines, goals and targets in a fast-paced work environment.
• A self-starter who takes the initiative to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation.
• Someone who is comfortable collaborating with other functional teams and building relationships internally and externally.

What You’ll Bring

• Post-Secondary degree or diploma in Engineering or Computer Science.
• Strong scripting experience with Powershell is preferred.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to recommend best fit technical solutions.
• 5+ years of Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy in medium to large-scale environments.
• Flexibility to participate on on-call rotation and respond to calls after-hours.
• Experience in server and desktop virtualization platforms such as VMWare, Hyper-V, Citrix XenApp Server and XenDesktop preferred.
• High proficiency with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and practical knowledge of SCOM.
• 5+ years of system administration experience with Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016 operating systems.
• Successfully delivered Office 365 implementations covering AD Federation Services, Directory Synchronization, as well as management and configuration of O365.
• Demonstrated ability to make well-informed strategic decisions.
• Expert in maintaining server environments, including security patches, hotfixes, service packs, intermediate versions / full version upgrades.

Please send a resume and cover letter to [email protected].
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