Analyst - Systems Administration Core
Analyst - Systems Administration Core
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Wintel System Administrator is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware, software, and related Windows infrastructure. This includes workstations, servers, printers, networks, and vendor‑specific hardware and software. Cloud Support, Cloud infrastructure Monitoring in Azure/AWS/G42, Azure/AWS resources knowledge (VMs, VMSS, AKS, Database), VM Refresh, & Change Management, Security.
Responsibilities- Good experience in IT operations, Windows Administration, Windows Server Patching, Vulnerability Remediation, OS hardening and performance tuning.
- Support and monitor cloud infrastructure hosted in Azure, including Virtual Machines, Azure AD, Resource Groups, Storage, and basic networking.
- Troubleshooting, analysis and logging information for reporting of performance exceptions.
- Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning.
- Familiar with Windows Cluster, File Server, DFS, OS Performance troubleshooting.
- Experience building, managing, and upgrading VMware virtualization environments.
- Resolving Incident tickets, remote System Administration of Windows servers, resolve Level 1 & 2 support.
- Manage Active Directory infrastructure, including Group Policy, OU structure, replication, and troubleshooting authentication issues.
- Maintain and support Microsoft Exchange (on‑prem and hybrid) environments.
- Perform user and group management across AD, Microsoft 365, and Exchange Online.
- Administer and monitor Microsoft 365 services including SharePoint, Teams, and Intune.
- Deploy, manage, and upgrade virtualization platforms, including VMware vCenter, ESXi hosts, Hyper
V and Nutanix. - Support on‑prem and cloud servers, including security configurations, patching, and troubleshooting.
- Implement and support hybrid cloud models (Private, Public, and Hybrid), ensuring integration and security of workloads across environments.
- Ability to configure VMs and Web Applications through Azure Web Portal and Command Line Interface through Power Shell.
- Basic Knowledge of Networking concepts (LAN, WAN, Firewall, Proxy Servers, Routers etc).
- Understanding of networking concepts including IP addressing, DHCP, DNS, etc.
- Remote Management of servers through ILO, DRAC and RSA.
- Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes.
- Work closely with application support & security teams to implement up‑to‑date patch levels and application specific feature configuration.
- Perform advanced problem determination and root‑cause analysis.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Certified Administrator AZ-104, AZ-900.
- Experience 5 to 7 year as Wintel, Cloud administrator.
- MCSD (Azure Solutions Architect) or MCSE (Cloud Platform and Infrastructure).
- Microsoft MCSA in Windows Server 2012R2 or 2016.
- Microsoft MCSA in Office 365 and SharePoint Online.
- Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate.
- ITIL foundation certification.
- Strong experience in Active Directory, Exchange, Office 365, Windows Server, Azure, AWS.
- Hands‑on knowledge of Exchange Server (2016/2019) and Exchange Online.
- Strong experience in hybrid on‑premises to Cloud, private and multi‑cloud and workload migration.
- Good experience in Azure IaaS/PaaS, Monitoring, backups, security best practices.
- Previous experience in a help desk support and troubleshooting role.
- Previous experience supporting virtual servers and solving network issues.
- Previous experience in a 24x7 managed services, hosted service company, or Network Operations Center environment…
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