Windows Server Engineering Consultant

Windows Server Engineering Consultant

Masis Professional Group is seeking a long-term contract role for Windows Server Engineering Consultant at Holyoke, MA.

Monday to Friday – Hybrid

Looking for talented engineers with a background in Windows Server & Cloud Engineering and administration, scalable architectures, orchestration as well as advanced problem solving skills.

Primary Responsibilities

Support, monitor, evaluate and enhance Windows Server, AWS and M365 Infrastructure(s), for optimal performance, security, scalability and availability.

Design and implement automation and orchestration solutions.

Design and implement efficiency and consolidation improvements across multiple Active Directory Forests and Domains.

Design and implement security enhancements to computing environments, including lateral movement protections, tiered logins and CIS standards.

Participate in interactions with analysts and customers as a technical expert for product sub-systems driving improvements in their systems and our platforms.

Deal with emerging and fluctuating priorities to ensure work is completed on time, and on budget.

Manage projects through all phases, from design through inception, inclusive of small to large teams & groups.

Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement of existing solutions.

Coordinate downtime and outages to applicable systems with application and business areas.

Actively participate in lifecycle management of documentation of Internal Infrastructure, utilizing full functionality of Atlassian's Confluence product.

Minimum Requirements

Covid Vaccination required.

Four-year degree or equivalent years of experience

7 or more years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience

Strong debugging, root cause analysis and troubleshooting skills

Experience working with Windows Server 2012R2/2016/2019/2022

Experience with Active Directory 2012/2016/2019/2022 in an enterprise environment, including backup and restore procedures, as well as support for multiple forests and domains

Experience with migration of on-premise technology to O365, including but not limited to multiple of Exchange 2016, SharePoint 2013, DFS, Active Directory.

Knowledge of automated configuration management and systems hardening, preferably using Ansible.

Excellent technical skills as well as strong team orientation, collaboration and communication for internal and external constituents.

Experience in supporting Active Directory Services in AWS a plus