Senior Windows Engineer

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 52 week(s)

Skills

Windows OS

Job Details

Job at a Glance

  • Job Title:Senior Windows Engineer
  • Location:Jersey City, NJ
  • Schedule:Full-time, 8:00 AM 5:00 PM
  • Duration:12 months (with potential for extension)
  • Work Type:Hybrid

Position Objectives
  • 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 day-to-day support activities, administration, and projects associated with Windows infrastructure/applications.
  • Maintain all Windows servers.
Responsibilities
  • Support a trading environment consisting of Windows 2016/2019/2022 servers and actively participate in planning and implementing new projects.
  • Proactively monitor the virtual environment for capacity, stress, risk, and workload; take remediation steps as needed.
  • Build and support Microsoft Failover clusters, including stretch clusters.
  • Maintain the Windows environment in the Americas Region for all business lines.
  • Interface with vendors and internal global teams to ensure environments conform to standards.
  • Manage business continuity in relation to disaster recovery.
  • Maintain high reliability, availability, and resiliency levels for systems.
  • Provide 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level support for production environments.
  • Perform proactive system performance monitoring and capacity management (using Geneos, Dynatrace, HP/Dell/IBM tools).
  • Conduct system upgrades and mandatory security/OS patching.
  • Liaise with application support teams to gather requirements, design, and deploy standard systems.
  • Implement projects for all business lines.
  • Participate in 24x7 on-call support rotation and perform weekend work as required.
  • Perform daily health checks on all critical applications using monitoring tools or scripts.
  • Follow change and incident management policies and procedures.
  • Ensure systems are deployed consistent with group standards and best practices.
  • Own incident and problem management issues, working with the team to resolve production problems.
  • Adhere to group security practices within the environment.
  • Maintain accurate and current system inventory.
Qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience preferred.
  • Expert knowledge of Windows OS (2022/2019/2016/2012) and enterprise components (Domains, DNS, Registries, DHCP/WINS).
  • Expert knowledge of Microsoft cluster technologies and strategies (server clusters, network/component load balancing).
  • Strong knowledge of Active Directory.
  • Good knowledge of VMware vSphere and associated products (e.g., vCenter, SRM).
  • Hyper-V knowledge a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of performance management and capacity planning.
  • Strong knowledge of SAN/EMC storage, including SRDF types.
  • Strong knowledge of installing Windows Server 2016+ on standard hardware (HP/IBM/Dell including blade servers).
  • Knowledge and experience with IIS, .NET; F5 knowledge a plus.
  • Working knowledge of Dynatrace monitoring a plus.
  • Solid networking knowledge (TCP/IP, SNMP, subnetting, routing).
  • Knowledge of relational databases (Sybase, Oracle, SQL) and MQ Series.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Project management and documentation skills.
  • Service-oriented, positive, committed, and enthusiastic team player.
  • Proficient in English.
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