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Senior Windows Engineer & Senior Windows Admin

Location - Downers Grove, IL

Duration: 6 Months

Retail Industry

Phone interview is fine then Skype if needed

Position Description:  This position description provides the minimum job requirements as additional duties may be assigned by supervisors.  The requirements listed are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities to qualify for the position.  This job description is not a contract and does not change the employment "at will" relationship.  The client reserves its right to amend the job description at any time at its discretion.

Purpose of Position: The Sr. Windows Engineer is responsible for administering and maintaining the company's back-end hardware systems and software applications. This person will deploy new software releases into QA, staging and production servers, and develop tools for monitoring the environment in the company's application server area.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

·            Develop collaborative partnerships across internal and external technical support teams to maintain and improve the integrity of the Windows server infrastructure.

·            Ability to foster new ideas and concepts and make decisions surrounding complex issues

·            Demonstrated clear and concise verbal and written communication skills at levels appropriate for the intended audience in a professional manner

·            Proven project management and decision-making capabilities

·            Work in collaboration with the project management office to create comprehensive statements of work and detailed project plans involving Windows server infrastructure projects.

·            Participate on server technology implementation and technology evaluation projects as requested.

·            Assist Network Team in evaluating technology solutions that will improve the delivery of Enterprise server applications.

·            Meets financial requirements by submitting information for time management. Prepares cost analysis of system design and provides accurate budget / ROI schedules.

·            Maintains system performance by performing system monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting system hardware, software, networks and operating and system management systems; designing and running system load/stress testing; escalating application problems to vendor.

·            Secures system by developing system access, monitoring, control, and evaluation; testing disaster recovery policies and procedures; completing back-ups; maintaining documentation and inventory.

·            Perform any other tasks as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. If a reasonable accommodation is necessary, the

employee must make the request and may be required to provide medical documentation.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

·            Minimum of 8 years advanced technical knowledge and experience in management of large Windows server environments

·            Installation and configuration of Windows 2K3 and 2K8 servers running in Active Directory.

·            Extensive experience with infrastructure design, implementation and troubleshooting of large vSphere 4.x, 5.x and Virtual center environments

·            Extensive experience with Active Directory design, OU administration, GPO administration, FSMO management, AD security.

·            Experience with server monitoring and capacity planning tools.

·            Network management (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP)

·            Five years minimum experience with messaging services, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010 and integration with Active Directory Services, Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)

·            Expertise of Windows based applications of basic principles, theories, and concepts

·            Expertise of Third party software integration within a server enterprise environment

·            Expertise in designing and building 2003/2008 Active Directory environments; supporting and administering 2003/2008 Active Directory domain services, including ability to troubleshoot complex replication and authentication issues.

·            Expertise in supporting and maintaining multiple server hardware platforms.

·            Expertise in building and supporting enterprise backup solutions.

·            Knowledge/Expertise in supporting and administering centralized storage platforms, including Storage Area Networks.

TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE:

                Technologies: Enterprise Windows 2000/2K3/2008, MS Cluster, Active Directory, Server virtualization VMware ESX, NetBackup Enterprise Backup, MS Sharepoint, Symantec Enterprise Anti-Virus, SQL, IIS Web services, WINS, DNS, DHCP, Exchange Email, HP or Dell Blade Servers, CITRIX