Windows Automation Engineer
Technology
Job Description
Job Description
THIS IS W2 ROLE
- Deep Windows Server experience
- Deep PowerShell scripting from scratch for automation
- Ansible experience
Role: Windows Automation Engineer
Location: Dearborn, MI (4 days a week onsite)
Duration: Long term ongoing
IT Operations Support Specialist #1039073
Job Description:
- Employees in this job function are responsible for ensuring reliable and efficient operations of physical or virtual servers, private cloud, networks (including telecommunication), PCs, and other business critical infrastructure components.
- They oversee the technology infrastructure that supports the business and support internal users in troubleshooting and escalating issues that impact system health.
- They are also responsible for setting up user systems and operating systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the organization's IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, storage systems, mainframes, telecommunication network and virtualization platforms.
- Collaborate with the security teams to implement and maintain robust security measures, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and access controls,.
- Configure and maintain networking equipment, including routers, switches, firewalls, VPN, QoS and wireless access points, to support seamless communication within trusted corporate and with untrusted external networks.
- Establish and maintain data backup and recovery procedures to ensure business continuity during system failures or following malicious threats.
- Monitor usage patterns of enterprise systems to identify potential issues like SLA metrics and proactively resolve them to ensure the continued availability and reliability of critical systems .
- Analyze system capacity and performance trends to anticipate future infrastructure needs and provide recommendations for investment prioritizations, as necessary.
- Perform routine network maintenance & system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes & enhancements.
- Design and implement IaC scripts and automated processes to reduce manual intervention and enhance repeatability and testability of infrastructure modifications.
- Troubleshoot complex software and hardware issues that are escalated by tech support teams and ensure resolutions are documented and added to the organization's knowledge repository
- Set-up and configure user systems, including installing and configuring operating systems, software applications, and hardware devices
- limited on call support Automate the creation and testing of Windows Server templates for virtual machines and physical hardware using a CI/CD pipeline Automate the installation and configuration of Windows Server Operating System infrastructure using a multitude of tools such as Terraform, vRA/vRO, Habitat, Chef, Ruby, PowerShell
- Automate manual processes associated with infrastructure deployment via pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
- Provide L3 Engineering support to Operations teams for all aspects of the Windows Server Operating System Provide cross-team support for deploying
- Windows Server infrastructure to multiple target environments Provide technical direction for the Windows Server Operating System platform
- Review and evaluate monthly
- Windows Security updates for Microsoft Server
- Operating system and determine a criticality level for each update based on mitigating and environmental factors.
- Engineer deployment process for High and Critically rated security updates
What are the soft skills required?
- Troubleshooting
- Data gathering, research, curiosity
- Customer service mindset
- Quality focus
Skills Required:
- Microsoft Windows
- Ansible
- Agile Software Development
- VMware
- Powershell
- Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
- Technical Analysis
Experience Required:
- 7-10 years experience
- Deep technical knowledge of Windows Server Operating Systems (2012R2/2016/2019)
- Deep technical knowledge of Windows PowerShell
- Technical knowledge of Windows Internet Information Services (IIS)
- Technical knowledge of Windows Clustering
- 5+ Years of demonstrated ability with Microsoft Windows Server OS and related technologies
- 5+ Years of experience with Windows Server Operating system for virtual machines and physical hardware
- Experience with VMWare and HPE server technologies h. Experience with scripting and programming languages with a focus on PowerShell (PowerShell, Batch, Ruby, Groovy, etc)
Education Required:
- Bachelor's Degree
Thanks & Regards,
YOGITA