Senior Windows Server Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Windows Server Engineer

Job at a Glance

• Title: Senior Windows Server Engineer
• Location: Chesterbrook, PA
• Contract: W2 only, 11 month contract with potential for extension or conversion to full time with either the client or CEI
• Pay: $ 63.00/hour + optional medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match

Overview
We are seeking a Senior Windows Server Engineer to architect and provide expert-level support for a production Windows Server environment within a mission-critical trading setting. This role focuses on proactive monitoring, reliability engineering, patching and upgrades, and the design and support of high-availability Windows infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and support a production Windows Server environment (Windows Server 2016/2019/2022) in a high-availability, performance-sensitive environment.
• Provide hands-on administration and day-to-day production support, including participation in an on-call rotation (24x7) and weekend work as required.
• Build, support, and maintain Microsoft Failover Clusters, including stretch cluster concepts.
• Perform proactive performance monitoring, capacity planning, and remediation using enterprise monitoring tools and scripts.
• Execute system upgrades and mandatory security/OS patching while adhering to change and incident management standards.
• Partner with application support teams to gather requirements, design solutions, and deploy standard systems.
• Own incident and problem resolution for production issues while enforcing standard security practices and maintaining accurate system inventory.

Required Skills

• Expert administration of Windows Server (2012/2016/2019/2022) and core enterprise services (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP/WINS, Windows registries).
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft clustering technologies and load-balancing strategies.
• Strong experience with performance monitoring and capacity planning in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of SAN/storage concepts, including EMC storage and SRDF replication types.
• Experience installing and supporting Windows Server on industry-standard hardware (e.g., HP/IBM/Dell, including blade servers).
• Working knowledge of virtualization platforms, including VMware vSphere and related tooling (e.g., vCenter; SRM preferred).
• Solid understanding of core networking concepts (TCP/IP, SNMP, subnetting, routing).
• Strong communication, documentation, and service-oriented collaboration skills.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (or equivalent related work experience).

Preferred Skills

• Hyper-V experience.
• Experience with IIS and .NET.
• F5 experience.
• Dynatrace experience.
• Exposure to enterprise monitoring tooling such as Geneos.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and middleware, such as Oracle, SQL, Sybase, and MQ Series.
• Project management experience supporting infrastructure initiatives.

Why Should I Apply?
This is an opportunity to own and evolve a mission-critical Windows infrastructure environment, with direct responsibility for reliability, availability, and operational excellence in production systems.

About CEI:
As a trusted technology partner, CEI delivers solutions that help our customers transform their business and achieve meaningful results. From strategy and custom application development through application management - our technology and digital experience services are tailored to meet each unique need of our customers. Our staffing solutions bring specialized skills to complement our customers' workforce and project requirements.