Senior Systems Engineer job vacancy

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Position: Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Laurel, MD (Onsite)

Duration: 12+ Months Contract (with multi-year extensions)

Position Description: Systems Engineer role is responsible for the design, architecture, implementation, and operations of a customer-facing 24x7x365 data center infrastructure, data center administration, servers, storage, backups middleware, non-application software, and operations that support the applications and business processes as required. The Incumbent architects, implements, upgrades, secures, monitors, and maintains the Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, Nutanix, and other server and related operations infrastructure and acts as the SME for all aspects of platform technology implementations. This position is also responsible for the administration of On-Premise and Azure Active Directory, Windows Server, MS Exchange (on-premise and cloud), Citrix Virtual Apps, and Desktop and Citrix Cloud Services. Responsible for administration of various VMware technologies such as vSphere, vCenter, vROPS, and NSX. He/She will engineer, support, and optimize hybrid infrastructures both on-premise and in the Cloud (i.e. Azure, Citrix Cloud, Nutanix, etc.) This role will also support efforts related to backup recovery, performance tuning, problem determination and resolution, and deployment and will develop system Architecture and system design documentation.

Skill Required:

Strong power-shell scripting skills for automating jobs and process for systems that support power-shell based deployment and implementation
Expert knowledge of Microsoft technologies including operating systems, Microsoft 365, Azure AD, and other Microsoft technologies.
Strong knowledge of VMware based technologies such as VMware ESXi, VMware Site Recovery Manager, vRealize Automation, VMware NSX, vSphere vCenter and vROPs
Strong knowledge of software and hardware design and recovery techniques necessary to keep servers operational and accessible;
Strong knowledge of the Windows Server 2019/2016/2012 operating environment, WSUS and related security, patching, monitoring, and other management/administration software and components;
Strong knowledge of Windows 2019 2016/2012 Active Directory Domain Services and related Group Policy (GPO), ADFS, login scripts, domain permissions, and other management/administration components;
Strong knowledge of MS Exchange 2016 or Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 administration and related collaboration technologies such as Teams and SharePoint;
Strong knowledge of server hardware and software technology, systems analysis and troubleshooting, and research techniques;
Strong knowledge of server backups and restore software, administration, policies, retention, and scheduling;
Strong knowledge of administering servers in a VMware vSphere 7.x virtualized environment;
Strong analytical and organizational skills and the ability to take on multiple tasks simultaneously;
Strong verbal and written communication skills including strong technical documentation skills;
Ability to think tactically and strategically;
Ability to work effectively in a team environment to achieve common goals.

Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or another technical discipline

Experience Required: 5 years systems engineering and administration experience on servers and Microsoft technologies (Azure, AD, PowerShell, Exchange, Microsoft 365), and VMWare implementation, configuration, and administration in a large corporate environment.

Preferred Experience:

Experience administering Citrix Virtual Apps/Virtual Desktop farms and Hyperconverged Infrastructure (Nutanix);
Experience with SaaS implementations;
Having relevant industry certifications (Microsoft, VMware, etc).
Linux administration Experience

ID: #21854407
State: Maryland Laurel 20707 Laurel USA
City: Laurel
Salary: Depends on Experience
Job type: Contract
Showed: 2021-10-29
Deadline: 2021-12-24
Category: Et cetera