Server Engineer

Responsibilities

-Designing disaster recovery plans and enforcing backup and archive procedures.
-Designing and implementing solutions for data storage and maintenance
-Upgrading software, applying patches, and ensuring the physical and electronic security of data
-Monitor and manage daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media/locations
-Provide support per request from team members and system users. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
-Repair and recover from hardware or software failures using root cause analysis practices. Coordinate and communicate with impacted organizations.
-Lead and oversee any projects the team is actively working related to backup, storage, and DR
-Create technology road maps; set and shape the direction of the backup and storage environments
-Perform daily system monitoring and maintenance of backup and storage environment
-Creating specific reports and KPI metrics for performance, data usage, and capacity planning using office automation applications
-Develop documentation to include systems architecture, maintenance and operations procedures
-Purchase new equipment and annual licensing/maintenance renewals while maintaining capital and operational budgetary requirements
-Assist with maintaining the virtual environment and Cisco UCS blade infrastructure
-Assist with managing a multi-domain, multi-forest Windows domain environment
-Assist with managing Exchange O365 and support the continued effort to move additional collaboration services to O365 (SharePoint, OneDrive, Skype, Teams, etc.)
-Scripting via PowerShell, VB and batch files
-Follows ITIL framework / best practices
-Implement solutions to optimize the infrastructure operations, and for conducting research and development to ensure continual innovation as needed

Experience
-At least 3-5 years of experience designing and maintaining servers and systems’ infrastructure.
-The ideal candidate will have experience with the following:
Microsoft Technologies: Windows Server /2012/2016/2019/ 2022, MECM, IIS, SQL Clustering, Client Operating Systems
-Virtualization technologies: VMware
-Storage technologies: iSCSI, Fiber Channel, replication and archival
-Experience in the implementation and execution of enterprise replication, backup, and recovery; both policies/procedures and solutions.
-Experience in managing Disaster Recovery including a Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
-Business needs and requirements development.
-Experience with IT Operations Process models
-Experience with requirements analysis, systems design, full lifecycle development/management
-Strong experience in hardware engineering, performance analysis, engineering, and data center operations including standup and maintenance.
-Understanding of networking technology fundamentals; routing, switching, firewalls and wireless technology.
-Understanding and demonstrated experience with Active Directory Domain ----
-Services; ADUC, ADSS, ADFS, DFS, GPOs, DHCP and DNS.
-Understands purpose, use and implement SSL and other encrypted technology