Windows Systems Engineer

As a Windows System Administrator , you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, security, and optimal performance of our IT infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain systems, applications, and services across both virtual and physical environments. Your expertise in Windows-based technologies will be crucial in managing our internal systems, including SCOM, Active Directory and Office365, to support the daily operations of the organization.
Duties and Responsibilities:

- Assist in the design, implementation, configuration, and ongoing maintenance of systems, applications, and services in virtual and physical environments.

- Manage and maintain critical internal and hosting infrastructure

- Active Directory and Group Policy management

- Conduct capacity planning and management for hosting, office, and networking infrastructure to ensure optimal performance.

- Adhere to security best practices at all times and ensure that security measures are operational and effective.

- Monitor system logs, analyze performance data, and troubleshoot and resolve system-related issues.

- Provide training and third-level support to support departments, assisting them in resolving complex technical issues.

- Participate in incident response and problem management to minimize downtime and maintain system availability.

- Apply operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes to enhance system security and performance.

- Introduce and integrate new technologies into the existing environment to improve efficiency and functionality.

- Document all changes made to the environment and adhere to change control processes to maintain a clear record of system modifications.

- Perform system performance tuning and provide recommendations to enhance overall system efficiency.

- Make security recommendations and implement best practices for hardening systems to safeguard company data.

- Backup Management: Ensure that backups are up to date and recoverable

Qualifications and Experience:

- 5+ years experience as a Windows Systems Administrator or similar position

- M365 Administration

- Microsoft Systems Centre Suite (VMM, ORCH, SCOM)

- Scripting and automation (PowerShell)

- Windows Server 2012 through 2022 with a solid understanding of Windows security fundamentals.

- Active Directory architecture and replication in a multi domain environment

- Strong understanding of IIS, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy.

- Database configurations and administration of MSSQL & MySQL

- Experience administrating Hyper-V Virtual infrastructure

- Monitoring systems, ex. PRTG / Grafana, others

- Proficient with server resource management (disk/memory), performance management

- Network experience advantageous

- Microsoft certification is advantageous

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