Windows & Vmware administrator

Exp- 6 to 10 years

Location- Chennai/Kolkata

Required Technical Skill Set

Windows Server, VMware, Hyper-V, SCCM, Powershell, Active Directory.

Desired Competencies

Provide VMware support including incident and work requests within the virtualization infrastructure spanning multiple data centers, across multiple VMWare ESX environments
Configure and optimize the virtual infrastructure
Working with change tools to maintain client SLAs
Monitor virtualization infrastructure and provide advice on capacity requirements
Provide security compliance under relevant security policies
Liaise on virtualization configuration with the storage systems manager and system administrators
Provide support and advice to projects requiring IT platforms support;
Proactively managing the environment to prevent incidents from occurring

Windows:

In depth knowledge in Windows Server 2012 , 2012R2 , 2016 and 2019.
Perform Inplace upgrade for the Servers
Manage & Maintain Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure
Manage & Maintain VMware infrastructure
In depth knowledge in Clustering, DNS, DHCP, GPO and file services
Responsible for troubleshooting OS & server hardware related issues by coordinating with Data Center engineers.
Identify issues in the Windows environment proactively.
Troubleshooting and break-fix of issues in Windows
Health check of Windows environment
Responsible for managing Antivirus
Responsible for applying security patches to windows servers using WSUS & SCCM tools
Responsible for building & hardening windows servers
Analyze server logs & provide root cause analysis during Major incidents
Manage & maintain permissions on File servers & NAS shares

VMware:

Install, configure and maintain VMware ESXi & vCenter servers of version 7.0 and later versions
Troubleshooting and RCA of Windows and VMware infrastructure.
Performance analysis and tuning of available infrastructure.
Creation, migration, cloning, snapshots, backup, recovery and troubleshooting of Virtual machines
Experience in P2V, VMotion and VMware virtual center.
Good hands on the command line of ESX.
Good hands on Experience in diagnostics & troubleshooting of ESX server environment.
Good understanding of HA and DRS environments.
Experience in performance tuning of VMWare servers and Virtual sessions and management of servers' resources between virtual machines.
Vulnerability Management and mitigation
VCenter and ESXI host upgrade
BIOS and Firmware upgrade for the ESXI hardware
Work with onsite\hands and feet support counterpart for any replacement on hardware

Good-to-Have

SCCM : Infrastructure Knowledge about SCCM

Scripting Knowledge : Powershell Scripts, Vbscripts,Batch Script understanding

VMware: Knowledge on SRM configuration, VRops

Others: Nutanix and Cloud platform understanding.

Windows & Vmware Administrator