Job Title: Windows admin Server
Location: Detroit, MI
Employment Type: Contract
Respond to and resolve Incidents, Problems, Service Requests and change requests while adhering to customer guidelines and policies
Perform installations, configurations, testing, troubleshooting and decommissions activities.
Coordinate with third parties for hardware replacements, firmware upgrade.
Follow that best practice and company standards.
Provide recovery assistance for applications
Coordinate third party and OEM cases
Patch management, RCA analysis, Application installs and upgrades following procedures documented by application owners Meeting SLA in time to fix the errors and problems.
Perform Root Cause Analysis for the incidents
Qualification: - Expected Skills / Experience (L1 / L2 / L3): L2\L3 (Primary Skill - VMware)
- Minimum 4+ Years of experience in VMware 6.7, 7.0, 8.0.
- Good knowledge on management and troubleshooting of Virtualization (VMWare, Cisco UCS)
- Good knowledge on firmware & BIOS upgrade on Blades/Chassis/Rack - HP,Cisco UCS and Hitachi
- Good knowledge on Virtual Machine management
- Good knowledge on vSphere 5.5/ 6/ 6.5 administration
- Good Knowledge on VMware management tools - VCOPS/SRM/VUM-Update Manager
- Managing and Troubleshooting ESXi Servers
- P2V migrations using tools
- Minimum of 4-6 years administration experience on Microsoft Windows.
- Excellent hands-on experience on Windows Platform with 2016/2012/2008/2003/2000 operating systems.
- Excellent Experience in Mid-range/Enterprise Servers Hardware (IBM, DELL, HP, CISCO)
- Excellent Experience in Production Server Environment with Wintel servers.
- Excellent Knowledge about user administration and File system management activities.
- Excellent knowledge on Patching Windows servers using WSUS/ SCCM.
- Excellent knowledge WSUS troubleshooting.
- Troubleshoot and resolve WSUS/SCCM client health issues that prevent patches from automatically installing.
- Monitor server patch compliance and manually intervene to install patches during scheduled server maintenance window.
- Ensure that device patching is planned, tested thoroughly and deployed with minimum service disruption while meeting Corporate IT and Cyber Security standards.
- Strong Knowledge and Hand-on knowledge on MSCS - Cluster (2008/2012)
- Strong Knowledge on Microsoft KMS (Key Management Server)
- Excellent experience in Terminal servers (Admin mode), File/Print Servers, WSUS etc.
- Good Experience in OS Hardening, performance and OS tuning.
- Patch management, RCA analysis, Application installs and upgrades following procedures documented by application owners Meeting SLA in time to fix the errors and problems.
- Good knowledge and hands on experience on Installing, Configuring & Troubleshooting Hyper-V infra
- Good troubleshooting experience on Windows Hyper-V clustering issues.
- Good understanding and knowledge on Hyper-V Networking & Clustering.
- Experience in P2V & Live migrations.
- Fair knowledge and working experience in SCVMM-2012/2016 & 2019
- Fair knowledge on backup solutions VERITAS, NetBackup, IBM TSM, HP DP or EMC Networker (At least one).
- Basic knowledge on Storage and SAN switches.
Additional Qualification / Skills:
- Knowledge on Monitoring tools like MOM, SCOM.etc. is an added advantage.
- Microsoft Windows certification is an added advantage.