Senior Windows Server Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Senior Windows Server Engineer for a one-year contract assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Jersey City, NJ.

Hybrid work schedule
This is a w2 contract - additional layers of employment are not permitted (no c2c)

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.

Required Skills:

• 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).
• 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 W2K16 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.
• 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*.

Preferred:
10 plus years of experience preferred.
Hyper-v knowledge is a plus.
Knowledge and experience of IIS, .NET, F5 are a big plus.
Working knowledge of Dynatrace monitoring is a plus.

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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