Sr Windows/System Administrator

Sr System Administrator Sr System Administrator. Must be local to Philadelphia for occasional on-site. Sr System Administrator Location: Philadelphia, PA Company: Global Investment firm Duration: 18 months+ consulting engagement MAIN REQUIREMENT This requirement is for 2 contractors to help backfill support for day to day responsibilities. Primary skills desired: 1. strong Windows 2. SCCM (Puppet) 3. AD 4. Citrix VMware 5. Scripting 6. Excellent communication skills 7. Cloud+ (Azure, AWS) Our client, a prestigious Global Investment firm, is seeking to engage a System Administrator (SysAdmin) to help design, configure, and manage the company's compute, storage, remote access and messaging infrastructure as well as the tools used to support that infrastructure. He/she will help continue the organization's move towards a DevOps style of system administration in which scripting and automation are foundational. Will participate in evaluating, selecting, planning, engineering, and implementing technologies related to that infrastructure. Will also be responsible for the ongoing monitoring, maintenance, and support of that infrastructure. 18 months+ consulting engagement Philadelphia, PA Main Focus: Windows, SCCM (Puppet), AD, Cloud+ (Azure, AWS), Citrix VMware, scripting, and excellent communication skills. Responsibilities:

• Evaluate, select, and implement technologies to standardize and automate the implementation and configuration of systems.
• Serve as technical specialist to troubleshoot and resolve system problems and emergencies.
• Evaluate, install, upgrade, configure, and maintain various server environments.
• Serve as technical specialist for cloud infrastructure, platforms, services (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office365).
• Migrate systems and applications to SaaS, PaaS and IaaS cloud providers.
• Analysis and optimization of on premises and cloud workloads.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verify the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes, reviewing system and applications logs and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.
• Monitor security to identify any possibly incidents or intrusions.
• Install new software releases, perform systems upgrades, evaluate and install patches.
• Perform daily back-up operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media and that media is properly managed.
• Own end-to-end delivery of certain technology projects including managing scope, quality, and schedule.
• Implement, maintain, and test disaster recovery for corporate computing environment.
• Maintains currency of knowledge with respect to relevant state-of-the-art technology, equipment and/or systems.
• Perform after hours changes, as necessary.

• Strong knowledge of:

• Windows server configuration and management.
• one or more enterprise systems management tools (e.g. SCCM, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt).
• Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services, DNS, and DHCP.
• Microsoft Azure, Office365, Exchange Online and Intune Mobile Device Management.
• Amazon Web Services, specifically IAM, EC2, S3, Glacier, EBS, EFS, VPC, Direct
• Connect, Route 53, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Config, Trusted Advisor, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
• one or more scripting languages (e.g. Powershell, Python, JS).
• file system management (e.g. CIFS/SMB, NFS).
• DevOps concepts (automation, agile, continuous integration/continuous deployment, infrastructure as code, cross functional product teams) and tools (Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Git, Bamboo, Jira).
• DevOps concepts (automation, agile, continuous integration/continuous deployment, infrastructure as code, cross functional product teams) and tools (Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Git, Bamboo, Jira).

• Experience with migrating on premises applications to SaaS, PaaS or IaaS environments.
• Strong technical troubleshooting and resolution skills.
• Knowledge of:

• Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop remote access technology.
• Linux server configuration and management including common management tools (e.g. Satellite, YUM, Chef).
• VMWare, vSphere, vCenter, and ESX.
• server security practices and technologies and their potential impacts.

• Highly developed verbal and written communications skills. Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical people.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, activities, and tasks simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to administer a 300+ node environment.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or equivalent.
• Industry relevant certification such as Microsoft's MCSE, VMWare VCP, AWS Certified SysOps
• Administrator or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.