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Title: Windows Server Administrator Location: Jersey City, NJ Email Address: shwetham@kyyba.com PR:$82/hr on W2 About Kyyba: Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances. At Kyyba, the overall well-being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values; incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development. Position Objectives: 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. Position requirements: · 10 plus years of experience preferred. · 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) · Hyper-v knowledge is a plus. · 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) · Knowledge and experience of IIS, .NET, Knowledge of F5 are a big plus · Working knowledge of Dynatrace monitoring is a plus. · 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. · Good communication and interpersonal skills · 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*7 · Proficient in English. Position Responsibilities: · 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

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