Windows & Vmware administrator
Exp- 6 to 10 years
Location- Chennai/Kolkata
Required Technical Skill Set
Windows Server, VMware, Hyper-V, SCCM, Powershell, Active Directory.
Desired Competencies
- Provide VMware support including incident and work requests within the virtualization infrastructure spanning multiple data centers, across multiple VMWare ESX environments
- Configure and optimize the virtual infrastructure
- Working with change tools to maintain client SLAs
- Monitor virtualization infrastructure and provide advice on capacity requirements
- Provide security compliance under relevant security policies
- Liaise on virtualization configuration with the storage systems manager and system administrators
- Provide support and advice to projects requiring IT platforms support;
- Proactively managing the environment to prevent incidents from occurring
Windows:
- In depth knowledge in Windows Server 2012 , 2012R2 , 2016 and 2019.
- Perform Inplace upgrade for the Servers
- Manage & Maintain Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure
- Manage & Maintain VMware infrastructure
- In depth knowledge in Clustering, DNS, DHCP, GPO and file services
- Responsible for troubleshooting OS & server hardware related issues by coordinating with Data Center engineers.
- Identify issues in the Windows environment proactively.
- Troubleshooting and break-fix of issues in Windows
- Health check of Windows environment
- Responsible for managing Antivirus
- Responsible for applying security patches to windows servers using WSUS & SCCM tools
- Responsible for building & hardening windows servers
- Analyze server logs & provide root cause analysis during Major incidents
- Manage & maintain permissions on File servers & NAS shares
VMware:
- Install, configure and maintain VMware ESXi & vCenter servers of version 7.0 and later versions
- Troubleshooting and RCA of Windows and VMware infrastructure.
- Performance analysis and tuning of available infrastructure.
- Creation, migration, cloning, snapshots, backup, recovery and troubleshooting of Virtual machines
- Experience in P2V, VMotion and VMware virtual center.
- Good hands on the command line of ESX.
- Good hands on Experience in diagnostics & troubleshooting of ESX server environment.
- Good understanding of HA and DRS environments.
- Experience in performance tuning of VMWare servers and Virtual sessions and management of servers resources between virtual machines.
- Vulnerability Management and mitigation
- VCenter and ESXI host upgrade
- BIOS and Firmware upgrade for the ESXI hardware
- Work with onsitehands and feet support counterpart for any replacement on hardware
Good-to-Have
SCCM : Infrastructure Knowledge about SCCM
Scripting Knowledge : Powershell Scripts, Vbscripts,Batch Script understanding
VMware: Knowledge on SRM configuration, VRops
Others: Nutanix and Cloud platform understanding.