Sr Windows Admin (Hybrid Role)
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Job Title: Sr Windows Admin
Work Location: 50% onsite - Fort Worth, TX
Duration: 12+ Months contract
50% onsite but in Jan 2025 will go to 4 days onsite a week, 1 day remote
on-call support (rotation with other team members)
Pay Rate: $55/hr to $60/hr DOE
Sorry Client cannot sponsor at this time - Those authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship are encouraged to apply
Job Description
The Windows System Administrator will perform system monitoring and verify the integrity and availability of hardware, network, server resources and systems in a 24/7 environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with system administration, troubleshooting, and monitoring on physical, virtual and AWS cloud services, ensuring that our systems are available, data is secure and recoverable.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Observe and practice a safety mindset for all activities.
- Communicate with enterprise customers to understand scope, impact, and best practices for service delivery.
- Maintain information in configuration management systems to assure compliance and adherence to best practices, security policies, and disaster recovery requirements for all systems.
- Perform software and system configuration tasks to end-user workstations and servers through the use of automation and deployment tools.
- Participate in the research, test and deployment of application ,operating system, and hardware patches/updates in accordance with policy. Perform reboots of systems to ensure patch compliance.
- Maintain backups of critical systems in accordance with service expectations and policies.
- Operate within the organizational policies, procedures, and programs that increase system reliability/availability and strengthen disaster recovery policies and procedures.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic 24/7 environment while effectively prioritizing tasks.
- Observe change management principles and utilize change management software to document changes and work performed.
- Proactive and reactive response to issues expected with minimal supervisory interaction and good communication, leveraging several monitoring and management tools to ensure highly available systems.
- Capable of undertaking projects with complete ownership of planning, scheduling, implementing, and documenting relevant aspects with minimal supervision, while balancing with daily system administration duties.
- Participation in on-call rotation and recovery situations.
Qualifications:
- A bachelor s degree in a Technology related discipline and/or at least 5 years of related experience in Information Technology for critical Enterprise infrastructures.
- Leadership and communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization in a professional, diplomatic and tactful manner.
- Availability for 24X7 on call support.
- 3+ years of experience with Monitoring Tools.
- 3+ Years of experience administering later versions of Windows Server.
- Proven experience with AWS and or Azure cloud services support:
- Maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing the following operating systems:
- Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022
- Windows 10, 11
Strong knowledge of and experience with the following technologies:
- Microsoft Clustering Technology
- VMware and Nutanix
- Configuration/Systems Management Tools (Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager)
- Monitoring Software (Dell OME, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager)
- Backup solutions (current solution is Commvault.)
- Antivirus
- Understanding of PowerShell scripting and usage.
- Automation of tasks and workflows with System Management tools and PowerShell.
- Added Bonus: On-prem to cloud migration experience.
- Added Bonus: Commvault/Storage Backup experience.
