Senior Server Engineer - Philadelphia, PA - Georgia IT Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
About the Job
Position: Senior Server Engineer
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Type: Full Time (Direct Hire)
Interview Process: Phone, then Onsite
Salary: $90K - $95K (Negotiable)
This senior level position will be responsible for the architecture, implementation and management of the firm's VMWare and Windows infrastructure. The successful candidate will be responsible for strategic design and operational management of the IT environment. This position requires excellent technical skills and proven attention to details, process, and discipline within a production environment.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Required skills/competencies:
Preferred education/experience:
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Type: Full Time (Direct Hire)
Interview Process: Phone, then Onsite
Salary: $90K - $95K (Negotiable)
This senior level position will be responsible for the architecture, implementation and management of the firm's VMWare and Windows infrastructure. The successful candidate will be responsible for strategic design and operational management of the IT environment. This position requires excellent technical skills and proven attention to details, process, and discipline within a production environment.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Provides comprehensive designs to address the company's strategic direction for physical and virtual server platforms; evaluates emerging technologies; implements systems/architectures based on best practices; ensures system integrity with regards to security and compliance guidelines.
- Develops activity plans, time and resource estimates; and cost benefit analyses for planned activities. Ensures that changes and enhancements are carried out properly, via documented change control processes, and on a timely basis.
- Manages multiple priorities effectively. Maintains clear and efficient communications with management and customers. Provides guidance and mentoring to peers. Prepares presentations on technical subject matter for senior management.
- Works closely with development, network, and production support teams in implementation of infrastructure components supporting emerging technologies and applications.
- Prepares activity and progress reports for projects ensuring issues are properly escalated and resolved to maintain delivery schedule, project cost, and desired results.
- Responds to issue escalation and service interruption as a confident technical leader. Assumes technical leadership role in problem resolution and root cause analysis. Provides actionable after-incident analysis to ensure root-cause issues are logged and remediated.
- Maintains effective external relationships with vendors, consultants, and service providers; leverages these relationships to ensure that the best fit solutions and resources are available to the firm.
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experienced, highly technical, and motivated individual, capable of designing and managing both desktop and server environments.
- Clear and efficient communications both with technical peers and management.
- Demonstrated mentoring experience to ensure that designs are executed upon and supported appropriately.
Required skills/competencies:
- Experience in the design & assembly of Client DL/BL series Proliant servers, including Client Virtual Connect architecture. Experience with Cisco UCS platform configuration and management helpful.
- Extensive knowledge of Active Directory, MS Exchange, MS SQL, VMWare
- Functional knowledge of core Networking concepts including TCP/IP , DHCP, DNS/DDNS, load-balancing, VLAN segmentation, network traffic capture and analysis.
- Demonstrated knowledge of SAN / NAS concepts and usage including iSCSI, FC, LUNs, WWNs, replication.
- Demonstrated expertise in Windows Server 2008 - 2012 R2 both physical and virtual, including past experience with HA clustering and disaster recovery options.
- 10+ years of managing a Windows Server environment
- 5+ years in technical leadership role with mentoring responsibility
- Experience in design and implementation of Windows Server 2003/2008 Active Directory services, replication topology & trust management.
- Experience in design and implementation of Microsoft Exchange in an enterprise environment
- Experience with VMware and associated technologies (SRM, SVMotion, HA clustering, etc..)
- Advanced skills in Server/Storage design and Operating Systems installation and configuration; able to design highly-available, disaster-tolerant systems failover for critical infrastructure and applications.
- Leads technology and product general assessments, detailed evaluations, and final selections.
- Leads system performance diagnosis and scalability assessment activities.
- Experience with current best practices in IT standards, principles, and security practices
- Knowledge and troubleshooting skills with MS SQL 2005 - 2014, Windows failover clustering, and web technologies.
- Excellent technical documentation skills
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and mentoring skills
Preferred education/experience:
- Bachelors degree in Information Technology or equivalent real world work experience.
- 5+ years in technical leadership role with mentoring responsibility
- Working knowledge of financial industry preferred.
Source : Georgia IT Inc.
