Windows Server Engineer

Job Title: Windows Server Engineer

Location: Jersey City, NJ 07310

Duration: 11 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Pay Rate: $ 65.00 to $ 65.00/Hr

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a company who is a provider of banking and financial services. The company operates through two divisions, Retail Banking and Services, and Corporate and Institutional Banking.

Job Description:

Position Objectives:

• The principle objective of this position is to architect and provide expert level support and strategy for the production Windows server environment.
• Maintain proactive performance monitoring of the environment utilizing specific monitoring tools.
• Play an active role in the day-to-day support activities, administration and projects associated with windows infrastructure/applications and maintain all the Windows servers.

Position requirements:

• 10 plus years of experience preferred.
• Expert knowledge of Windows OS (2022/2019/2016/2012) and Windows 2022/2019/2016/2012 Enterprise components and technologies such as Domains, DNS, Registries, DHCP/WINS.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft cluster technologies and strategies: server cluster, network and component load balancing
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory
• Good knowledge of VMWare vSphere and associated products (eg vCenter, SRM)
• Hyper-v knowledge is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of performance management and capacity planning.
• Strong knowledge of the SAN / EMC storage including the different SRDF types
• “Strong knowledge of installing Windows W2K22 and above on industry standard hardware (e.g. HP/IBM/Dell -including blade servers)”
• Knowledge and experience of IIS, .NET, Knowledge of F5 are a big plus
• Working knowledge of Dynatrace monitoring is a plus.
• Good working knowledge of networking functions (i.e. function of TCP/IP, SNMP) subnetting and routing.
• Knowledge of relational databases such as Sybase, Oracle, and SQL along with MQ Series.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Project Management and Documentation skills
• Service oriented, positive, committed and enthusiastic team player.
• Will be required to work weekends & on an on-call rotation 24*7
• Proficient in English.

Position Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting a trading environment consisting of Windows 2016/2019/2022 servers & to be actively involved in the planning & implementation of new projects.
• Proactively monitor virtual environment for capacity, stress, risk and workload and take necessary remediation steps
• Build & support Microsoft Failover clusters & also work with stretch clusters.
• Maintain the windows environment in the Americas Region for all business lines
• Interface with Vendors and Internal Global Teams to ensure the environment conforms to the current standards.
• Manage Business Continuance in relation to Disaster Recovery.
• Maintain System high reliability, availability and resiliency levels.
• Provide 1st, 2nd and 3rd Level Support for the production Environments
• Proactive System Performance Monitoring (using Geneos, Dynatrace HP/DELL/IBM ) and capacity management
• Perform system upgrades and mandatory security/OS patching.
• Liaise with application support teams to gather requirements, design, and deploy standard systems
• Project implementation for all business lines.
• Provide 24*7 On call support based on rotation within the team
• Perform thorough morning checks on all critical applications using existing tools or scripts.
• Strictly abide and follow the company policy and procedures pertaining to change and incident management.
• Responsible for ensuring that all systems are deployed consistent with group standards and best practices.
• Incident and Problem management: take ownership and work with team to resolve production related issues.
• Follow groups standard security practices within the environment.
• Maintain an accurate and current inventory.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.