Windows System Administrator

VMWare Skills

1. Knowledge on VMware 6.5/6.7/7.x/8.x/9.x Infrastructure
2. Vulnerability management in the Windows & VMware environments
3. Testing & scheduling of patching & upgrades on vCenter and ESXi with planned downtime
4. Knowledge on VMware tools and hardware upgrades
5. Design, Implementation, configuration & troubleshooting of ESXi on bare metal servers like HP / Dell / IBM /…
6. Working knowledge on troubleshooting issues related to vCenter server / VM tools / HA / DRS / V-Motion / EVC
7. In-depth knowledge on certificate management of vCenter server
8. Experience in cloud administration i.e., Azure AWS
9. Design and develop solutions related to VMWare products to improve the environment and infrastructure
10. Proactive management of vCenter/ESXi environment to mitigate risks to the environment and minimize downtime

Windows Skills

Mandatory Experience in Windows and VMware Disaster Recovery

1. Knowledge in RAID configuration
2. Installation, configuration, migration and Administration of
3. Windows servers 2012 / 2016 / 2019 / 2022 … including AD
4. Windows Clustering knowledge – Install, configure & manage
5. Windows Patching knowledge using tools i.e., Ivanti, SCCM, etc…
6. Working knowledge on server builds – On-Prem, VMware & Cloud
7. Familiarity with Disk provisioning and reclaims
8. Knowledge on Antivirus – McAfee, Defender etc
9. Knowledge on Monitoring tools – SCOM, Splunk, Varonis & HPSUM
10. Hands on experience in ticketing and monitoring systems (Ex. Netcool, Service-Now etc.,)
11. Knowledge on scripting and Automating tasks
12. Ability to perform Incident & ITSM Change requests, Problem & Capacity management tasks.
13. Troubleshooting of unexpected server reboot / host unreachable.
14. Mandatory adherence to standard escalation procedures & RCA reports as demanded.
15. Installation of Control-M / NetBackup / Monitoring Agents & Standard Installation Packages.
16. Escalate issues for assistance with OEM / vendors like: Microsoft, Veritas, VMware, HP, Dell, etc …
17. Schedule runs for intrusive data collection scripts in accordance with server owners and upload to vendor sites.
18. Decommission servers following standard SOP without deviation.
19. Monitor system activities like CPU / Disk / Memory and Swap space usage to keep systems healthy by resolving them as per defined SLA.

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Windows operating system management and integration knowledge. Specifically, someone who can integrate and implement Windows platform.
2. Builds for new versions of Windows
3. Research/identify/test/deploy system OS and 3rd party patch updates (Security as well as periodic software maintenance releases)
4. Setup/configure system security and entitlements
5. Setup/configure access to local and SAN based storage
6. In-depth understanding and ability to configure various tunable system resource/parameters (Advanced network configuration, Shared memory, SMTP, SNMP, DNS, NTP, FTP, YP, TCP/IP, NFS)
7. PowerShell and/or Python scripting
8. Understand kernel and its components (drivers, libraries process intercommunication)
9. Perform performance troubleshooting using standard O/S tools and third parity debuggers, memory and CPU utilization, I/O components and other peripheral
10. Knowledge of enterprise backup infrastructure, ideally Veritas NetBackup
11. Perform Windows packaging
12. Configure and maintain Windows Volume Manager
13. Hands on experience working within a commercial could environment (AZURE preferred). Experience including but not limited to:
14. AZURE conformance and compliance
15. System build automation
16. Hybrid cloud management/administration
17. Cost management
18. Systems migration to/from AZURE
19. Hands on administration level experience with VMWare ESXi 5.x or higher and related technologies such as VCC, SRM, and Orchestrator:
20. Design and build ESXi servers
21. Security and performance tuning
22. Design and implement virtual machine builds, clones, etc…
23. Various automation activities using SRM/Orchestrator