Wintel Administrator

JOB TITLE: WINTEL ADMINISTRATOR

JOB TYPE: CONTRACT

JOB LOCATION: AMSTERDAM

CONTRACT RATE: NEGOTIABLE DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE

CONTRACT LENGTH: 3 MONTHS - EXTENSION EXTREMELY LIKELY

Our Client, one of the world's foremost Telecoms companies, is looking to recruit a Wintel Administrator to join their business in Amsterdam.

Job Title:

Wintel L3/SME Administrator

Department:

IT Technical Services

Division:

Technology

Location:

Netherlands

Reporting to:

Wintel Technical Infrastructure Team Leader

JOB PURPOSE: THIS SECTION NEEDS TO PROVIDE THE READER WITH AN OVERVIEW OF BOTH THE PURPOSE OF THE JOB AND WHY THE JOB EXISTS. THIS SHOULD SUMMARISE THE OVERALL ROLE OF THE JOB FROM THE COMPANY'S PERSPECTIVE.

Responsible for the technical delivery and support of our X86 Wintel based platforms, offering escalated support, meeting operational, project and initiative needs. Provide out of hours' support. Completely independent and should be able to manage self and customer

RESPONSIBILITIES, ACTIVITIES AND KEY DELIVERABLES:

- Provide technical capability, support and maintenance for our Wintel based platforms including the delivery and documentation of the following:
- Operational, initiative and project based activities
- Technical applications support
- Capacity and availability management
- System level performance management
- Obsolescence management
- Patch, vulnerability and anti-virus management
- Technical design and implementation
- Backup & Disaster recovery management/capability
- Operating system hardening
- Work with service delivery & EUC teams to ensure the delivery into production of new or upgraded Wintel server/service changes are carried out per agreed quality processes and schedules.
- Ensure support processes are defined and continuously reviewed, appropriate documentation created and training requirements are identified. Where appropriate prepare, and deliver cross team training.
- Manage infrastructure assets ensuring the correct balance of proactive & reactive maintenance, to deliver optimum service levels.
- Provide technical design and architecture proposals to improve the existing Wintel Server infrastructure services, thereby improving efficiency, effectiveness and minimising costs.
- Work with asset management team in software licence control & hardware asset management.
- Adopt & adhere to industry best practices.
- Ensure compliance with relevant standards ITIL, Sarbanes Oxley, ISO 17799, COBIT & auditing authorities (both internal & external). Taking timely action to remedy any deficiencies and/or risk areas.

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JOB SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

Technology Skills:

- Design and Build/ configure/ support for windows environments
- MCSE certification preferred
- Experience of working within a Wintel (MS, SQL, VMware & Linux) systems support environment.
- Experience with SCOM, MacAfee, WSUS, HPSIM, SCCM
- Sound experience in Patch Management, Windows O.S patching & Vendor Management.
- Expert in scripting (PowerShell / VB / Korn / Borne Shell)
- Experience with x86/x64 servers running Windows 2003/2008R2/2012R2 Server
- Troubleshoot system connectivity and performance issues.
- Firmware updates for Virtual Environment.
- OS migration and up-gradation
- Server OS troubleshootingHardware or Application)
- Knowledge on SAN / NAS storage Experience in Virtualization
- Knowledge on backup/restore solutions
- Microsoft DNS Support, DFS, PKI, failover clustering, DHCP knowledge

THIS IS A GREAT ROLE FOR THE RIGHT CANDIDATE, SO IF YOU MEET ALL THE CRITERIA ABOVE, THEN APPLY TODAY!