Description
- Inner West and Western Sydney location - Relocate from Canberra
- 8-9 month contract initially
- Great team environment
This is a brand new contract role with leading global organisation for a Wintel Specialist for a large scale Data Centre relocation.
This client, a leading global professional services company currently have a requirement to assist in a Data Centre relocation. The final phase of the project involves physically moving (Lift and Shift method) racks and Servers from one location to the other. Also a refresh of old equipment will be performed. We require resources in Sydney to perform most of the physical work for us, such as un-racking Servers from Burwood, re-racking them in new Data Centre, installing new Servers in Data Centre and performing other tasks in Sydney as required.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Perform 2nd Level Windows Server Operating System Support
- Provide 2nd Level Wintel Server hardware support and engage support vendors as required
- Be available to perform after hours work and perform 24 x 7 on call support as required
- Attend to monitoring and alerting systems in relation to Server operating system and hardware events
- Perform regular system health checks to ensure server stability and reliability
- Implement changes and improvements to server infrastructure products via strict Change Management procedures
- Perform general troubleshooting relating to Wintel server infrastructure
- Perform Capacity Management and planning activities for Wintel server infrastructure, and prepare daily/weekly/monthly reports as directed
- Implements operational support standards and procedures relating to change and performance management, and security
- Recommends changes and improvements to existing standards. Develops and maintains administration manuals for various environments
- Has a current NV1 Government security clearance
- Minimum 5 years experience within the IT Industry
- Ability to resolve issues and handle conflicting priorities in a dynamic environment
- Ability to manage own tasks and work with minimal supervision
- Excellent technical knowledge of the Microsoft Windows server operating systems
- Excellent technical knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory
- Good understanding of Wintel Server hardware standards and technologies
- Understand LAN/WAN principles and technologies
- Sound incident/problem resolution abilities
- MCP or MCSE in Windows
- Product experience with and of the following: Host Integration Server 2004, IIS, Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, ISA 2004
- Knowledge of and experience with SANs, Fibre
- Experience or an understanding of the ITIL framework
- Have worked in an IT position supporting and large enterprise environment