Active Directory Administrator

Role: Active Directory Administrator

Location: Phoenix, Arizona - Onsite.

• Support day-to-day aspects of the level 3 Migration calls of Active directory during business hours
• Meet the SLA and QOS level
• Co-ordinate with other teams
• Escalation of all pending and failed calls
• Update the knowledge base and documentation
• Designing and planning of AD and Hyper V
• Migration and consolidation of Active directory
• Provide L3 level support on AD, Monitoring and Reporting
• Experience in Testing and implementing security patches released by Microsoft.
• Implementation and Maintenance Migration Windows 2000, Windows 2003 to Windows 2008
• Knowledge in VMware Administrator.
• Good Knowledge in Documentation for Installation, Testing, deployment and troubleshooting Windows servers.
• Experience in Testing and implementing security patches released by Microsoft.

Technical Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of active directory concepts and configuration, i.e. need to understand membership in security groups, inherited groups, OU structure, etc.
• Knowledge of the Windows Registry, including knowledge of modifying the system registry to support installed applications and document configuration changes.
• Good knowledge on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 & Windows 2008 including Active Directory.

Excellent troubleshooting skills

• Excellent skills on windows 2003 and windows 2008 designing & planning.
• Hands on experience on migration and consolidation projects.
• Experience on Merger and Demerger of Active Directory Environment
• Expert on migrations tools (e.g., ADMT, Quest, etc.)
• Good experience with security translation.
• Good understanding on reporting tools
• Good experience with user training and documentation.
• Should have expertise in backup products.
• Should have worked with more than one patching & antivirus tool.
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, willingness to excel and performance-oriented

Soft Skills:

- Excellent communication and conversation skills (Verbal and Written)

- Good documentation skills

- Good working knowledge of MS OFFICE (Including MS Project and Visio)

- Should have a great customer handling skills

- Able to handle unforeseen situations

- High level of acceptance

Years of Experience

• Must have 7 + Yrs of IT Experience and 5 years in AD Administration.