Senior Systems Administrator/Team Lead - Wintel, Vmware, Xenapp, Excha

- HIGH PROFILE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT
- CANBERRA LOCATION
- REWARDING HOURLYRATES

A highly regarded Federal Government department in Canberra is looking to appoint an experienced SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR/TEAM LEAD to oversee a team of Level 3 technicians and to manage the performance of the technical environment. This will be an initial 3 month contract with the view to extend until June 2013.

The successful candidate will be responsible for (but not limited) the following tasks:

- Provide a technical escalation point for the incident management helpdesk;
- Design, implement and support WinTel systems and Servers;
- Supply 3rd level technical support for core systems including MS Exchange, MS SQL Server, Active Directory, desktop SOE, Citrix, VMWare, System Center Configuration Manager;
- Provide support for the department's storage platform; and
- Participate in the creation and maintenance of Information Technology procedures and standards.

Skills required;

- Extensive experience administering, architecting and supporting Wintel Server and Desktop infrastructure solutions;
- Demonstrated high level of expertise and certification with one or more of the following technologies VMware vSphere 5,

Citrix Xenapp 6.5, Exchange 2010, Windows Server 2008, Dell Compellent Storage. - Previous experience with the administration of SQL Server 2008, Oracle, Active Directory, Microsoft failover clustering and System Center suite.
- Established skills in the design and architecture of highly available business critical applications and services.
- Expert knowledge of networking protocols and security practices

Further your career and develop your skills while receiving great daily rate. This is a rare opportunity to work in a highly sought after organisation so apply now! Send your application quoting reference number JJ0574.