Senior Wintel Engineer

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Senior Wintel Engineer - Daily Rate Contract - Dublin City Centre

Senior Wintel Engineer performs Tier 3 engineering functions in the VMWare/Wintel environment. Work includes new OS and/or platform certification, first article server builds, operating system upgrades, patching, security hardening, presenting storage to Servers, installation automation, and installation of third party software. Responsibilities also include working with other Technology services groups, performance troubleshooting and coordination of activities with customers, working with vendors, and resource management of Wintel/VMWare environments. Weekend and night coverage required when needed.

Related responsibilities typically include the following:
Configure and implement new and existing operating systems and applications software.
Research new products and technologies to improve system performance.
Work with vendors to develop/maintain current standards of performance or troubleshoot issues.
Ensure adherence to procedures and processes for hardware, software, and applications.
Interact with multiple business units in deployment of new hardware.
Develop, modify, maintain, improve, and troubleshoot existing systems.
Perform hardware and software recovery.
Perform operational turnover on all system templates.
Work with business clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes, and workflow.
Develop business case documentation.
Develop purchase requests and supporting documentation.
Work with vendors and business support teams to install new systems.
Analyze and resolve operating systems and applications issues on various systems.
Develop troubleshooting tools to allow Systems Administrators to support products when they are put into production.
Generate and maintain reports and documentation.
Research and evaluate new technologies, products, and services, and recommend acquisitions and modifications as they relate to client application needs.
Review system performance measurement tools and prepare exception reports for management review.
Capacity planning analysis and reporting.

Key Requirements & Experience

Extensive experience in Wintel & vmware Engineering Design and implementation in a medium to large telecom and/or distributed platform environment performing installation, configuration, and troubleshooting duties.
In Depth knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 2012 implementation, system administration troubleshooting, Active Directory; Boot from SAN, VMware VSphere 5.5/6. troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills, Disaster Recovery.
SuSE and RedHat Linux experience is a strong plus
File server Share & Permission management.
Data share and permission auditing and validation.
Ability to develop automation process using Scripting languages such as PowerShell and batch.
Experience of working with EMC and NetApp storage and familiarity of SAN and Vfiler technology and architectures
Knowledge of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, file transfer and secure file transfer protocols, IIS, networking/distributed computing environment concepts; basic routing concepts.
Familiar with most aspects of systems/software administration, such as: system installation and configuration, security levels and permissions, installation of third-party software, backup systems, etc.
Dell hardware knowledge is a requirement.
Powershell/VBScript/PowerCLI experience a requirement.
Interpersonal, written and verbal communications skills
Strong troubleshooting skills and be able to work independently
Analytical and problem solving skills
Process Oriented
Ability to write purchase justifications

* Apply for immediate consideration

If you are interested in this position please forward your CV or call Suzanne Brophy.

Start date
n.a
From
Stelfox Ltd
Published at
08.06.2016
Project ID:
1144476
Contract type
Freelance
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