Windows Systems Engineer

Sunnyvale, California

WINDOWS SYSTEMS ENGINEER
The Systems Engineer is expected to independently install, deploy and upgrade servers; design and implement server and system optimization upgrades; support business teams on joint-initiatives as a technical advisor or resource.

Responsibilities:
Administer Windows 2008 Active Directory (e.g. group policy, permission and security, etc.).
Support and maintain core network services like DHCP, DNS, in Active Directory environment.
Maintain inventory, monitor and analyze storage, network, and computing usage issues and contribute to capacity planning initiatives. In particular, monitor resource usage on servers and plan for hardware upgrades.
Optimize and manage data center backup process and activities, and disaster recovery of business support systems and data.
Organize, optimize and document IT Infrastructure, including physical and logical architecture of servers, databases and applications.
Adhere to IT access-management incident response and change control procedures.
Develop IT infrastructure project plan, technical specifications, design documents, roll-out and test plans.
Participate in Network and Security planning, implementation and support and assist Helpdesk support activities as needed and share 24/7 on-call responsibilities.
Contribute to IT policies and process development using industry best practices.
Contribute to mentoring junior staff and knowledge transfer to global team.

Qualifications:
Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
5+ years IT experience with on-going skills development.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent troubleshooting skills.
Ability to rapidly identify and resolve issues under pressure.
Self-motivated, results-driven, and well organized.
Can handle multiple tasks with clear sense of ownership and priority.
Can see the big picture, and strive for constant operational improvements in a changing global environment.
MCSE/CCNA certifications a plus.
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Windows 2008 Active Directory.
Strong experience with networking protocols: TCP/IP, SMTP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, and LDAP.
Strong experience with disaster recovery, backup, restore methods and procedures & Windows security technologies.
Experience with Citrix Presentation Server 4.0/4.5/6.5.
Working knowledge of scripting in a Windows environment (VB, WSH, WMI).
Understanding of Microsoft SQL and virtual environments a plus.