Microsoft Senior Engineer

• Designing, implementing, configuring, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting complex Microsoft enterprise infrastructure and associated services in secure enterprise environments;
• Providing senior-level technical expertise for Microsoft Windows Server platforms and associated infrastructure services throughout their complete lifecycle, including architecture, deployment, configuration, hardening, patching, upgrades, migrations, monitoring, and decommissioning;
• Designing, administering, and troubleshooting Microsoft Active Directory environments, including domains, forests, trusts, Group Policy, authentication services, DNS integration, and associated identity infrastructure.

• Strong experience in troubleshooting complex infrastructure and application issues, root-cause analysis, security hardening, patching, upgrades, migrations and vulnerability remediation;
• Experience working within IT Service Management processes, including Incident, Problem, Change, Configuration and Release Management;
• Experience producing technical documentation, implementation procedures, operational guides and providing knowledge transfer.

Desirable:

• Experience working for NATO, military, governmental or other security-sensitive organisations;
• Experience supporting highly available or mission-critical services;
• Experience integrating Microsoft platforms with Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Splunk or Power BI.