Senior System Engineer - Linux - GAMA

Primarily Skills and experiences:

Installation, upgrade, patching, maintenance of Red Hat, Ubuntu and oracle Linux servers.
Administrate and maintain the Patch management through native Azure update manager.
Perform ongoing performance tuning and resource optimization as required.
Follow and maintain documentation on established Linux Administration procedures.
Review monitor performance, storage, network, and operating system related metrics.
Perform regular backup operations.
Prepare and perform backup/restore validation plan according to agreed procedures.
Managing User and group access management.
Review the monitoring thresholds and alerts regularly.
LVM and file system administration.
Microsoft Systems Administration.

Administrate and Manage SCCM solution.
Manage Azure Cloud Managed Services, O365 and Citrix DaaS including Access management, conditional access, Defender, Endpoint management.
On premises hypervisor management [VMware technology, VXrail].
Exchange online.

Backup Administration [DELL IDPA, O365 RUBRIC backup, Azure backup]
Administrate and maintain the backup solution and its components.
Ensure the backup retention policy matches the customer requirements
Gather backup requirements and follow the best practices to configure, and test new backups.
Troubleshoot backup job failures and propose solutions.
Work with Product support vendor for escalating the backup issues.
Create and maintain documentation for backup.
Performing test restore on quarterly basis to ensure a reliable data backup version is available to restore.
Forecast backup repository space requirements to the client for every year
Manage licensing and assure notifying the customer early enough for renewal.
Microsoft Endpoint Manager/ Mobile Device Manager/Intune

Maintain, administrate and configure the related activities for the below scopes:

Citrix DaaS management and Administration:

Create, administer Virtual Delivery Agents and profile management
Administrate Identity Provider
Working with Citrix App and Desktop Workloads
Manage Citrix Gateway for Secure remote access from any device using global points

Microsoft Systems Administration

Microsoft server 2012R2/2016/etc. management and administration.
Perform periodic patch management for all servers in the environment and provide respective reports.
On premises hypervisor management [VMware technology].
Perform ongoing performance tuning and resource optimization as required.
Perform regular Active directory administration as well as ADFS management
Antivirus management
Administrate and Manage SCCM solution.

Storage Administration

Administrate and manage the storage solution
Create Raid Group, LUNs/Volumes as per the size requirement from customer
Create Zones between Storage array and the hosts on the SAN switches
Map the New LUNs to the associated host/host groups
Ensure the LUN is visible on the required Hosts
Ensure the Multipathing is enabled on the OS end
Troubleshoot the alerts from the Storage and other SAN components
Coordinate with vendor and plan Storage/SAN Switches FW upgrade on regular basis
Gather the new requirements from customer and follow vendor guidelines to Create and Map new LUNs
Perform regular storage tasks such as volume expansion, deletionetc.
Azure storage account administration and management.

Fluent in English
Proven leading experience in the same role.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, will be working remotely with client
Ability to convey complex technical information concisely.
A high level of motivation in learning new technologies.
Hard worker, self-motivated and result-driven individual.
Welling to work in non-standard working hours.
Ability to work well in groups and independently.
Able and willing to share On-Call responsibilities with peers.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

The Job holder may be required to undertake additional duties, which may be reasonably expected and forms part of the function of the job.