Windows Server Engineer (Trading environment - Max $60/hr W2)

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.

• 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 W2K22 and above on industry standard hardware (e.g. Client/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.