Job Summary:

The Microsoft Systems Administrator plays a key role in the design, build, and ongoing support of our hosted and managed environments. The role requires a diverse understanding for Microsoft Windows and Active Directory.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Perform OS and application installations and upgrades to Windows systems; and maintain them in accordance with established policies, procedures, and service level agreements.
• Monitor and tune Windows systems to achieve optimum uptime and performance.
• Provide capacity planning for all Windows and Microsoft systems to allow proper expansion and growth
• Support servers in a 24x7 environment.
• Plan and schedule server outages to perform hardware and software upgrades within a given window.
• Ability to quickly solve technical problems to minimize customer downtime
• Udnerstand monitoring systems such as Systems Center Operations Manager
• Understand and manage Microsoft, and other third party applications, such as Exchange, SharePoint, Hyper-V, Defender, Ivanti.
• Design and build Active Directory environments

Required Skills/Abilities:

• 5+ years experience in Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2016/2019
• Extensive knowledge of exchange migration.
• Experience with large Exchange and/or Active Directory multi-tenant deployments
• Advanced Scripting/Powershell experience
• Ability to troubleshoot in complex environments and quickly identify root cause

Education and Experience:

• Microsoft certifications, including MSCE, etc.
• Previous experience with BES and/or Mobile Device Management solutions
• Previous experience with SQL
• Experience with Active Directory design and implementation
• Excellent written & verbal skills
• Attention to detail
• Good problem solving skills
• College degree or 5+ years’ experience in complex IT environments