Looking for an experienced Senior Microsoft/Linux/Virtualization Engineer with exceptional work ethic.
Required experience: more than 6 years.
Part-time to Full-time remote work
from home (typical working hours 10 am - 8 pm GMT+3).
Independent contractor's contract position. Long term contract.
Fluent English is obligatory.Responsibilities - Manage and maintain IT infrastructure (MS based);
- Monitor and troubleshoot virtualization solutions (VMware);
- Provide advanced technical support as to IT so to non-IT users;
- Collaborate with the software development team to ensure a proper IT resources' allocation planning, maintenance and troubleshooting;
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps.
Required QualificationsMicrosoft - Experienced in engineering support of Active Directory, Exchange, and any additional Microsoft, and VMware products;
- Experience with Active Directory including AD forest migration, as well as a strong foundation in other directory service technologies including GPO, DNS and DHCP, DFS, WSUS, user profile management;
- Hands on experience designing and configuring Microsoft Windows (Server and End User) technology including Antivirus, patch management and other System Administration tools;
- Experience with capacity planning, performance monitoring and maintenance planning to ensure high availability.
- Maintaining Application Packaging Standards / Desktop Standards / Hardware Imaging / OS Patches, etc. Common OS layer worldwide;
- Exchange (2016 and newer) Administration / Support;
- Microsoft SQL Server (2008 and newer) Administration / Support.
Virtualization - Demonstrated experience in Virtualization Desktop Infrastructure with VMware Horizon View (7.x+)
- Demonstrated experience in virtualization specifically with VMware VSphere and ESXi Virtual Infrastructure (6.x+);
- Good knowledge of VMware applications and physical infrastructure services and their integration within the virtual infrastructure;
- Understanding of Windows Desktop operating systems to include design considerations for desktop, laptop and Thin-client/VDI;
- Diagnosing and troubleshooting VDI issues around performance, access and usability, including CPU % ready hypervisor tuning;
- Good understanding of profile management and GPO;
- Experience in Application Layering - Golden Image maintenance and deployments of updates
- Expertise with SAN and VSAN storage.
Linux skills (not all essential): - Experience with multiple OS platforms such as (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat)
- Configuring Linux operating systems for optimal performance.
- Performance monitoring, tuning utilities and commands.
- Container orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Other technologies - Demonstrated NMS (Zabbix, Kabana etc.) implementation history;
- Unified Endpoint Management (UEM);
- Expert backup admin skills using VEEM
- Strong Networking knowledge - netmasks, VLANs, ACLs, DHCP, DNS, routing.
- Good scripting knowledge is preferred for automation using PowerShell, Ansible etc.;
Preferred Certifications - Microsoft Expert level (or MCSE ) certifications;
- VCP - VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization certification;
- VCP - VMware Certified Professional - Desktop and Mobility certification
- Cisco Professional certification - CCNP +