Active Directory/Microsoft Architect/Engineer

Our client is currently looking for an ACTIVE DIRECTORY/WINDOWS ARCHITECT and an ACTIVE DIRECTORY/WINDOWS ENGINEER.

Key responsibilities include:

- acting as a resource for on-going Active Directory planning, operations, and deployment;
- assist with analysis of migration from independent domains and forests to a new forest;
- deliver timely and high quality solutions to customer problems and requests focusing on root cause analysis, prevention, knowledge transfer, and opportunity generation;
- manage escalations consolidated Active Directory and sub-cases to ensure timely and high quality resolution of all issues;
- develop and implement strategies for providing support, resulting in fewer incidents, increased availability, or accelerated deployments;
- develop relationships with technical directors or lead Architects for the technology you support resulting in more participation in planning;
- initiate and participate in meetings to share knowledge with other engineers and to efficiently resolve customer problems.

Ideally, the suitable candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

- Experience designing and planning virtual environments around Microsoft Hyper-V and the System Center Suite, also involving high-availability and clustering leveraging SAN technologies
- Experience with the Microsoft System Center Suite (2007 and 2012) particularly Virtual Machine Manager, App Controller, Operations Manager, Data Protection Manager, and Orchestrator (Opalis)
- Extensive knowledge about general virtualization and SAN best practices
- Strong Experience with Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2008 R2 and 2003. Technologies include Active Directory, Remote Desktop Services, DirectAccess, Clustering, Network Access Protection, Dynamic Access Control, BranchCache, and others.
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Azure services
- Basic knowledge of storage products such as StorSimple, EMC (CLARiiON, Celerra and VNX), NetApp, etc as it pertains to leveraging virtualization
- Experience with multi-server environments running VMWare ESX/ESXi/vSphere products and associated management applications (vCenter Server, Orchestrator, Veeam, etc.)
- Knowledge of Datacenter infrastructure including DNS, PXE, DHCP, NTP, SMTP, MS Exchange, AntiVirus, Security
- Knowledge of server hardware platforms such as HP, Dell, and Cisco UCS.
- Experience with SQL Server (desirable)
- Experience with LAN/WAN (desirable)

DUE TO SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ROLE, CANDIDATES MUST BE AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS WHO CURRENTLY HOLD A BASELINE SECURITY CLEARANCE.

Interested? Please call Esther Hiltebrand quoting job #20130 for a confidential discussion or click the 'Apply' button below for immediate consideration.