Senior Server Engineer

Senior Server EngineerSoftware Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Senior Server Engineer for a contract assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Jersey City, NJ. 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.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 stepsBuild & support Microsoft Failover clusters & also work with stretch clusters.Maintain the windows environment in the Americas Region for all business linesInterface 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 EnvironmentsProactive System Performance Monitoring (using Geneos, Dynatrace HP/DELL/IBM ) and capacity managementPerform system upgrades and mandatory security/OS patching.Liaise with application support teams to gather requirements, design, and deploy standard systemsProject implementation for all business lines.Provide 24*7 On call support based on rotation within the teamPerform 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 inventoryRequired Skills: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 balancingStrong knowledge of Active DirectoryGood 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 typesStrong knowledge of installing Windows W2K22 and above on industry standard hardware (e.g. HP/IBM/Dell -including blade servers)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 skillsProject Management and Documentation skillsService oriented, positive, committed and enthusiastic team player.Will be required to work weekends & on an on-call rotation 24*7Proficient in English.Preferred Skills:Knowledge and experience of IIS,.NET, Knowledge of F5 are a big plusWorking knowledge of Dynatrace monitoring is a plus.Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States for the duration of the assignment. This position is not available for C2C arrangements, and the company cannot provide visa sponsorship.