Description

• Expert knowledge in Active Directory, DNS, OU Design and management, AD Site design, Group Policy, AD security, AD certificate services, LDAP, Global Catalog, AD troubleshooting, and AD.

• Engineer, integrate, design and deploy various Windows components and expert knowledge in Active Directory, Group Policy, digital certificates, multi factor integration, DNS and DHCP

• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems

• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and improve operational efficiency.

• Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure

• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.

• Monitor and correct critical server issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks.

• Use native, add on tools, and third-party tools to troubleshoot malfunctions, optimizations.

• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities

• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning for performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required

• Review event logs on a regular basis.

• Assist teams in migrating projects to the cloud.

• Adhere to firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and familiarity with ITIL or other formalised IT operations foundations

• Follow relevant IT processes, finding solutions that minimise operating costs and improve customer (internal and external) experiences.

• Adhere to organisations policies and procedures.

• Utilise to understanding of cloud computing technologies and cloud based products

Requirements

• 10+ years experience working in IT

• 5+ years of experience in the financial industry

• Experience with various services in a MS Windows environment (e.g., DNS, DHCP)

• Experience working in an Active Directory environment including AD forest migration, remediation and consolidation, as well as a strong foundation in other directory service technologies experience neral experience with virtualization technologies

• Experience setting up and maintaining Group Policy and Local Policy configurations

• Hands on experience designing and configuring Microsoft Windows (Server and End User) technology including Antiviincluding GPO, DNS and DHCP

• Experience installing and maintaining MS Windows Server (2008/2012/2016)

• Experience with scripting (batch, VBScript) but PowerShell

• preferred

• General experience with storage subsystem technologies (e.g., SAN/Fiber channel, LUNs)

• Gerus, patch management and other System Administration tools

• Experience developing detailed Windows Administrative standards, design, and implementation documentation

• Experience capacity planning, performance monitoring and maintenance planning to ensure high availability.

• Coordinate with change control and environment management and network and security teams; upgrades and routine maintenance; troubleshooting support; performance monitoring; provides support and maintenance for data center, and DR sites.

• Experience implementing/supporting desktop virtualization such as VDI and DaaS.

• Assist in maintaining Application Packaging Standards / Desktop Standards / Hardware Imaging / OS Patches, etc.

• Design / Develop PowerShell Scripts for Automation of Operational Process, where appropriate

• Experience with at least one scripting language (PowerShell / VBScript / Python, etc.)