About the role
The role requires deep subject matter expertise with Microsoft's Windows Server platforms (2019, 2016, 2012 R2) and related technologies including extensive automation experience. The candidate will be part of a team that provides ongoing engineering and operational support for the firm's Windows servers and will ensure stability, integrity, and efficiency through automation.
Principal Responsibilities/Qualifications
Day-to-day maintenance of the Firm's entire Windows server estate (approximately 2,600 servers globally
Troubleshoot and solve a wide variety of hardware, firmware, software and configuration issues
Install and configure MS Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2025 onto physical and virtual systems using the Firm's automated build process (MDT/VMware).
Architecting, building, and maintaining the company's internal Windows automation systems and workflows using Chef, PowerShell, DSC and WSUS
Ensure estate is kept up-to-date with OS patches, firmware and/or Driver Stacks
Create application packages using PowerShell and basic script logic for MSI software installations
Create re-usable modules with Powershell and/or python and integrate with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins to automate testing and deployments
Maintain and enhance monitoring and visibility of the server estate via metrics and log gathering, analysis, alerting and creation of functional dashboards
Develop and Document procedures, Write Run-books, FAQs, "How-To's", Commit code to GitHub for peer review
Configure and maintain Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) infrastructure and LDAP
Implementation and support of cross platform Kerberos integrations between Linux and AD
AD Forest functional level testing and upgrades
Share weekend on-call rotation duties