Senior System Administrator - Hyper-V/SQL Server (10-12 yrs)

Preferred Professional Qualification/Certification : MCSA Microsoft Server 2016/2019.

Certification preferred

Experience : 10+ year's Experience in Windows Server Systems Administration Skills,Virtualization (Specifically Hyper-V) and Microsoft products knowledge including MS-SQL Server.

- Experience with ITIL procedures will also be beneficial.

- Experience in Microsoft System Center Suite (SCOM, SCVMM, SCCM, etc.

- Must have strong experience in handling DC-DR Environment.

Responsibility Areas :

- He/she must have deep knowledge of MS-System Center Suite.

- He/she will install, configure, upgrade, monitor, maintain and manage multiple windows and Linux Server in standalone and cluster environment.

- He/she will perform server patching and releases/upgrades, backup, recover/restore Operating System.

- He/She will be implementing and maintaining security, high availability, (Clustering),BCP/Disaster Recovery Configuration solutions.

- The assignments carry responsibility of monitoring systems for performance, stability and capacity using performance monitoring and other tools and also install, configure and maintain server firewall and other security software if required.

- Identify and provide technical resolution for potential security breaches.

- Establish and monitor security and apply appropriate fixes.

- He/she will be responsible for providing operations support for mission-critical, high availability systems.

- Monitor and maintain system integrity assuring maximum availability using system centre tools.

- This includes monitoring backups, managing appropriate access rights, and securing enterprise systems in accordance with IT Services Standards.

- Monitor and forecast future capacity needs.

- He/She will perform migration of websites and applications and databases and undertake root cause analysis of Production-Related Operating System issues.

- Achievement of critical performance metrics including all required Service Level.

Requirements (SLRs) on a 24x7 basis are a key focus of this position and is required to collaborate with other associates and functional business teams to build, deliver, and support effective, creative solutions aligned to specified business initiatives.

- He/She will interface with application developers, storage system, support personnel, network team and database administrators and will open, track and manage resolution of all OS incidents and problems.

- He will also create, in coordination with network and database administrators, base definition of resources, structure documentation, operational guidelines and security including OS hardening and antivirus installation and patch management.

- He/She will conduct server health checks, implement and maintain technical solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity of project systems.

- He will play important role in data backup and archival policy implementation.

- He/she will produce essential reports on daily, weekly, monthly or ad hoc as necessary on server availability and performance monitoring and reporting.

- He/she will analyse OS performance and implement tuning and optimization recommendations.

- He/she will provide support for file and database server management and integration of external server for SFTP/Web service and contribute to system automation via scripting and other tools to reduce rime spent on operational tasks.

- He is also responsible for administration of Active Directory including group policy management, administration and maintaining user/computer account permissions and access rights.