Windows Engineer

Essential:

·       Exceptional skills in Microsoft Windows Server internals and related technologies

·       Excellent skills in managing and maintaining Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, LDAP and Kerberos

·       Extensive experience in hardware performance monitoring and tuning complex low latency systems.

·       Agile, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps Principles and practices

·       Exceptional knowledge of scripting and programming languages such as PowerShell, Python and C#

·       Fluent in Backup and Recovery processes and procedures

·       Advanced knowledge of Clustering, High-Availability, Replication and Disaster Recovery techniques

·       Ability to tune Network, Storage, Server and Virtualisation layers for optimal performance and reliability

·       Excellent Performance Tuning skills, in-depth knowledge of system internals, performance counters and performance measurement and analysis tools.

·       Ability to interpret and implement CIS security hardening recommendations in a controlled manner

·       Acute awareness of Security and Auditing requirements in a regulated environment

·        “Infrastructure as Code” Principles and practices.

·       “Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD)” Principles and practices

·       Git, Ansible, Terraform and TeamCity

·       Serena Deployment Automation (SDA) and Jenkins

Highly Desirable:

·       Experience on writing, managing plays/playbooks on AWX / Ansible Tower

·       Advance working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker container orchestration

·       Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase ASE, MongoDB and Snowflake

·       IBM Tivoli / Netcool

·       Nutanix HCI and VMWare ESX

·       Networking Protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN’s)

·       RHEL, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris and related technologies

·       Cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle

·       Knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX

Desirable:

·       Dell EMC PowerStore (SAN) and Isilon (NAS)

·       Rubrik, EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

·       CyberArk

·       Splunk

·       Qualys

·       Cisco Tetration

·       ServiceNow

·       JIRA and Confluence