System Administrator

One of our clients, a petrochimical company, is currently looking for a SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR (3 months contract with possible renewal).

ENVIRONMENT

- Mission based in Hainaut
- Ready to travel occasionally for short-term missions (Europe and US) to meet application responsible and other team members
- A car and a license to driver are required.

SCOPE

* Active Directory management:

- Collaborate in administering and maintaining Active Directory and domain structure; managing trusts, domains, OUs, site topology, GPOs, Users, Groups, Computers and in general any object related to AD; implement GPOs and replication topology; give second level support to Operational teams, Enrollment and Regional teams about AD; perform massive changes -via scripts- on many objects in a structure change management process; be the competence focal point for other teams on this subject
- Support the migration between two Windows forests using Quest AD Migrator, pass the recurrent activities to the recurrent team, ensure the support.

* Application support:

- Using the existing processes, procedures and methodologies, liaise with the application teams (global or regional), perform the installation and configuration of Middleware and applications on standard Windows Servers.
- Participate to the process of putting applications in production: from the initial phase of each project to the architecture definition, documentation; support the testing phase; coordinate and supervise the installation of Windows Servers as application Servers, including the installation and configuration of the need Middleware.
- Contribute to define the process of putting in production applications and application Servers, contribute to improve it; ensure the compliancy with the standard rules, methods, processes and procedures.
- Perform knowledge and information transfer to the Operational team; once the processes are in place, provide third level support on the Middleware, help in troubleshooting and consultancy to the application teams

* Sharepoint support:

- Participate to the redefinition of the processes, proceduresand methodologies of the Sharepoint Middleware environment.
- Collaborate in the installation and support of the Sharepoint Middleware at the system level, including IIS and MSSQL.

* System administration

- Administer and maintain the Windows environment; DNS, WINS, DHCP, File and Print Servers, Quotas management, DFS, The administration is shared with other actors (Operational and Enrollment teams); be one of the competence focal point for other teams on this subject

TECHNICAL SKILLS

- Deep knowledge of Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Operating Systems and their administration.
- Good knowledge of MS Domains, Active Directory and their administration.
- Ability to evaluate and perform the installation of applications on Windows 200x; knowledge of application management and administration needs.
- Good knowledge of middlewares SQL, IIS, TS, Sharepoint and their administration.
- Good knowledge of DNS, WINS and DHCP technologies, as well as network technologies.
- Good knowledge of VMware virtualization software suite (HA & VMotion included)
- Knowledge of command line and VB Scripting development (system related, not application development) using ADSI/WMI (and other methods) to administer the environment
- Knowledge of Systems management related tools and processes (SCCM)
- Knowledge of Additional Scripting tools (PERL, PHP, ASP) is an asset
- Knowledge of Citrix and AD Quest Migrator is an asset

LANGUAGES

- Ability to write and document solutions, processes and procedures (in English)
- Ability to present the solutions to a technical audience, and to do hands-on training sessions to architecture or operation teams
- Fluent in English both writing and speaking
- Fluent in French both writing and speaking

EXPERIENCE

- Working experience in a structured enterprise (more than 5 years)
- Experience of at least 2 years in a similar task is a requirement
- Stress resiliency, flexible time schedules