Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, CA 95054 - Fully Onsite

Duration: 6 Month Contract to Hire
The IT organization is looking for a Sr. IT engineer. You will be responsible for research, design, deploy, and maintain Email services, Windows Servers, Active Directory, VDI, and email related services. Once service deployed, build standards and SOPs for IT daily support and Operation engineer to perform the best practice in support and operation. From time to time you may be rotate on-call shift to provide urgent support on holiday or off hour.

Important Skills:

• Citrix is the MUST with script automation skill. Other like SharePoint, Confluence, other O365 apps is good to have managing experience.
• Master of Citrix XenDesktop
• Experience deploying and supporting Red Hat Linux VDI desktops

Responsibilities:

• Provide Windows Systems Administration on Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, and other Microsoft application on-premises and on O365 Cloud.
• Enterprise servers patching management and software deployment
• Diagnoses and resolves technical hardware and software issues where applicable
• Expert in design and manage Citrix VDI with migration experience in global scale
• Migration experience of MS SharePoint in global scale
• Provide technical assistance to the IT support engineer as an escalation resource
• Build standard support procedures, Operation SOP, and provides troubleshooting guideline
• Design and deploy the IT Microsoft infrastructure and services on Microsoft O365
• Compares, evaluates, and implements new technologies, and integrates them into the computing environment
• Lead and manage IT projects in global scale
• Troubleshooting major mail flow issue with spam gateway such as Proofpoint or equivalent
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Excellent knowledge of Windows Server 2016 and 2019 Operating systems
• Active Directory (AD) & Domain Controller Administration including DNS and GPO management in a multi-site environment
• Building and administering Windows servers and accompanying infrastructure, maintaining capacity and performance in enterprise environment
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Products, such as Exchange, SharePoint, Project, SQL etc., on both on-prem and Microsoft O365
• Manage/upgrade/migration experience to O365 Cloud
• Strong knowledge of virtual environment, hypervisor, such as VMware VCenter, Hyper-V, etc.
• Automation scripting, such as Windows server Powershell, MS Exchange Cmdlets
• Understanding of NAS\SAN Storage, Replication, load balancing, and LAN\WAN Technologies
• Work with vendors and perform upgrade/installation related activities, analysis and troubleshooting issues to provide resolution and execute on any new enhancement as required by business
• Experience with Infrastructure – virtual environment, VDI, Citrix Client Load balancer, Backup& Restore, disaster recovery and business continuity
• Experience and knowledge administering workflows and issue schemes in Jira Software and Confluence
• Experience and ability to work in a fast-paced IT environment with fluctuating priorities and deadlines
• Minimum of 8 years of Sr. IT Engineer or Sr. IT System Engineer experience
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Must have strong written and verbal communication, organizational, detail-oriented, interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to multi-task, work independently and as a member of a team, interface with other branches of the organization, work effectively with diverse constituencies, and solve problems and make decisions while under pressure and time constraints