VIRTUALIZATION AND SERVER ADMIN

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Title: Virtualization and Server Administrator

Location: Bridgewater,NJ

JOB DESCRIPTION:-

The Virtualization and Server Administrator is responsible for advanced administration, design, build, implementation and support of server environments, including VMware vSphere-hosted virtual machines, Citrix XenApp farms, and physical Windows servers.

  This position also provides support of UNIX and LINUX server environments, disk storage systems, backup/restore environments, and local area network/wireless network communications equipment to effectively support the LifeCell’s network and server operations.

Primary Duties/Responsibilities: (give an estimated percentage of time for each duty)
Essential Duties % of Time
1) Manage and administer Server Virtualization (VMware 4.x & 5.x/Citrix 5.x) and Windows Servers:
• Build/design VM Requirements, manage and perform physical server host and guest operating system maintenance, installation, patching, configuration, support, backup/restore, monitoring, trending.
• Administration of Windows server environments

• Administration of SAN and disk storage
• Administration of LVM structures and file systems
• SQL Server administration

• Tuning systems and I/O for optimal performance

• Development, debugging and maintenance of shell scripts

• Maintenance of user accounts, group membership and printer configurations 30%
2) Provide technical scripting, tooling and automation for continuous and efficient operations.
10%
3) Participates in activities/projects involving server hardware and/or disk storage solutions. Serve as team representative on projects related to server/storage builds. Responsible for more critical and senior level assignments, tasks and trouble-shooting. 10%
4) Operational Server Support activities:
• Define and implement system/applications monitoring procedures and health checks.
• Generate metrics to trend performance and overall resource consumption.
• Provide recommendations for hardware and software architectures.
• Produce and maintain documentation related to any and all activities, such as customer contact lists, escalation procedures, scheduled job inventories, “how-to” documents, and operational “cookbooks.” 10%
5) In collaboration with Corporate IT, ensures compliance of policies and procedures are followed for the LifeCell network and servers. 5%
6) Participates in on-call rotation and after-hour duties. 10%
7) Generates metrics to trend disk storage consumption, server performance, and network utilization. 5%
8) Responsible for scheduling and monitoring all server backups and daily, monthly and year-end operational activities. 10%

9) Participates in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning and execution. 10%

University Degree BS degree in computer science or related field
Please list degree type and area of study/concentration

Experience: (please list specific experience and field of work)

1-3 yrs SAN, NAS,
3-5 yrs VMware/ Citrix Administration, SharePoint 2007 administration, Active Directory, Backup/Restore
5-7 yrs
7-10 yrs Windows Server Administration

Other Required Skills:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer-related field and minimum 6 years computer related experience, OR 10-12 years of computer related experience in Windows server administration.
• Minimum two years of experience in VMware Administration.
• Minimum two years of experience in Citrix Administration.
• Minimum two years of experience in SharePoint Administration.
• Minimum five years of experience in SQL, Active Directory and backup/restore.

• At least 5 years of experience in Windows server administration
• Experience in Disaster Recovery concepts and strategies relative to data recovery
• Experience using MS Office applications including: Word, Outlook, Excel, and Visio

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with Data Center Server Virtualization (VMware) 4.x & 5.x, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Active Directory, and enterprise system backup/restore.
• Extensive and proven knowledge of Citrix technologies: XenApp 4x, 5.x & 6.x, XenDesktop 4.x and 5.x, Provisioning Services 5.6 and 6.x, Citrix NetScaler/Advanced Access Gateway 9.x, Web Interface and EdgeSight.
• Extensive and proven knowledge of SharePoint 2007.
• Experience building Windows 2008 or 2003 servers.
• Experience developing scripts and configuring performance monitoring tools.
• Two years of experience supporting Citrix Metaframe.
• Demonstrated communication, presentation, and written skills
• Ability to multi-task and deal with changing deadlines
• Demonstrated knowledge of technology processes
• Ability to troubleshoot complicated issues across multiple systems, regardless of architecture and driving the effort to a successful conclusion
• Ability to explain complicated technical solutions clearly to non-technical individuals
• Ability to grasp new concepts and learn new skills quickly
• Demonstrated willingness to assume new responsibilities, and initiative
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated logic, problem solving, and decision making skills
• 3 years of experience in Unix/Linux, enterprise disk storage, SAN and back/up restore administration

Thanks,

Sri

Technical Recruiter

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