Systems Engineer - Microsoft MCSE Communications at Telvida Communications Services

Job Description

• The Systems Engineer takes an active role in the Design, Deployment, Administration and Maintenance of Systems, Servers and related Equipment within the Organization.
• Responsible for day-to-day support and maintenance of the Data Center and ensuring Operational uptime. Escalation point for lower Tier support personnel.

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct project based work to design, document and implement infrastructure solutions to solve business problems.
• Use enterprise-class infrastructure/system engineering experience with Microsoft platforms running on servers utilizing direct-attached and SAN attached storage to design and implement system infrastructure upgrades.
• Advanced experience designing, implementing and managing high availability/ clustering and disaster recovery environments
• Work in partnership with Business/Apps partner and other Engineering teams to translate requirements into deliverables
• Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
• Must participate and provide technical leadership, managing individual project-based assignments
• Establishes plans and templates guiding overall technical architecture format and direction for program infrastructure platform.
• Develops briefings and white papers presenting strategic technical recommendations, impacts, assessments and guidance for business operations.
• Completes technical documentation to design, test, implement, train and transition solutions to operational support.
• Interacts with customers and appropriate representatives to analyze, validate, specify, verify, document and manage the requirements.
• Plans, manages time according to schedules, and provides timely status updates
• Quickly learns new tools and resolve issues using all available resources.
• Publishes technical standards including white papers.
• Prepares and manages new systems; following program guidelines for documentation for transition to operations.
• Serves as liaison with clients, participating in meetings to ensure client needs are met.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.
• Participates in special projects as required.
• Serve as Tier III system support for operational systems as required

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science , Engineering or any related technical discipline.
• Possess MCSE Productivity or equivalent
• Strongly understands MS clustering, high availability, backup and disaster recovery design and has implementation experience.
• Desired characteristics are a proactive thinker, technical leader and self-starter, must be able to innovate and think out of the box while collaborating and providing technical oversight to a team of engineers.
• Advanced experience designing, implementing and managing enterprise solutions using Microsoft, HP and VMWare 5.x and 6.x technologies. Includes Active Directory, Microsoft Group Policy, HP blade hardware and virtual platform, Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2, Windows 10, SQL Server 2012 and 2014, and Veeam Backup & Replication
• Foundational knowledge around Linux systems preferably with RedHat Linux
• Foundational knowledge around Oracle
• Hands on experience with tiered storage, replication, DR, and snap shot technologies.
• Working knowledge of integrated converged stack infrastructure & hyper convergence stacks
• Working knowledge of networking protocols and components including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IP Networking, VPN's, switching, and routing
• Must have troubleshooting and deep dive skills around VMware
• Scripting experience preferred (Batch, WMI, VBScript, PowerShell)
• Intermediate VMware experience. VCP 5 or higher certification a plus
• Experience with off-premises and on-premises cloud services is a plus
• Must have strong written and oral communication skills.
• Familiarity with change management and process management
• HPE 3PAR and MSA storage experience a plus
• Microsoft IIS and Microsoft SharePoint experience is a plus
• ITIL Knowledge helpful