Overview
Senior Microsoft System Administrator Jobs in Doha, Qatar at BAE Systems Strategic Aerospace Services WLL
BAE Systems Strategic Aerospace Services WLL | Full time
The Microsoft Senior System Administrator will be responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of Microsoft systems administration.
Requirements
Microsoft Systems Administration:
Microsoft Server 2012 R2/2016/etc. management and administration.
Perform periodic patch management for all servers in the environment and provide respective reports.
On-premises hypervisor management [VMware technology, Oracle VM].
Perform ongoing performance tuning and resource optimization as required.
Perform regular Active Directory administration as well as ADFS management.
Antivirus management.
Administrate and manage SCCM solution.
Manage Azure Cloud Managed Services, O365, and Citrix DaaS including access management, conditional access, Defender, and endpoint management.
Backup Administration [HP, IBM, Cloud]:
Administrate and maintain the backup solution and its components.
Ensure the backup retention policy matches the customer requirements.
Gather backup requirements and follow best practices to configure and test new backups.
Troubleshoot backup job failures and propose solutions.
Work with product support vendor for escalating the backup issues.
Create and maintain documentation for backup.
Perform test restores on a quarterly basis to ensure a reliable data backup version is available to restore.
Forecast backup repository space requirements to the client for every year.
Manage licensing and assure notifying the customer early enough for renewal.
Storage Administration:
Administrate and manage the storage solution.
Create RAID groups, LUNs/Volumes as per the size requirement from the customer.
Create zones between storage array and the hosts on the SAN switches.
Map the new LUNs to the associated host/host groups.
Ensure the LUN is visible on the required hosts.
Ensure the multipathing is enabled on the OS end.
Troubleshoot alerts from the storage and other SAN components.
Coordinate with vendor and plan storage/SAN switches FW upgrades on a regular basis.
Gather new requirements from the customer and follow vendor guidelines to create and map new LUNs.
Perform regular storage tasks such as volume expansion, deletion, etc.
Azure storage account administration and management.
General Requirements:
10+ years of experience with a minimum of 4 years relevant experience.
Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Proven skills and experience in a similar role.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Ability to convey complex technical information concisely.
A high level of motivation in learning new technologies.
Hard worker, self-motivated, and result-driven individual.
Willingness to work in non-standard working hours.
Ability to work well in groups and independently.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
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Title: Senior Microsoft System Administrator
Company: BAE Systems Strategic Aerospace Services WLL
Location: Doha, Qatar
Category: IT/Tech (Systems Administrator, IT Specialist)
