Windows Server Administrator

General Background

Windows Server Administrator who has experience of working in a large financial services organisation required to work as part of a project team responsible for migrating servers from old storage infrastructure to new storage or converged infrastructure.

This position requires an experienced IT Professional who can work as part of a team or as an individual working with 3rd Party Suppliers and Customer Teams to support migrations across different workstreams.
 
This role requires the successful candidate to be able to work with Planning, Migration Readiness, RM and TPA functions to define migration approaches and identify and address technical challenges.
 
There is a requirement to support UK out of hours and weekend migration work.

Responsibilities

·        Advanced Administrative experience of a wide range of Windows Operating System Versions on a variety of hardware platforms, including Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 on HP DL, ESXi 3.5, ESXi 4 amongst others

·        Knowledge of appropriate storage and converged infrastructure host software; Solutions Enabler, PowerPath, Veritas, EMC Host Grabs

·        Host discovery and investigation; data collection and analysis for O/S and application configuration, compatibility with SAN and Converged Infrastructure components

·        Application and software installation, configuration and trouble shooting

·        Creating technical runbooks and sequence of events and inputting technical details into change management processes

·        Available for extensive weekend and out of hours migration work