Position: System Administration
Company: Luxoft
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

**About working environment:**
Our team primary locations are Kiev, Warsaw. We are working remotely in client environment. Currently the team operates fully in WFH mode.

**Responsibilities:**
• Take part in daily health and compliance checks for all Production systems as required
• Ensure all Windows Server systems are backed up successfully and any issues are promptly resolved
• Validate monitoring alerts are detected promptly and satisfactorily resolved
• Ensure sufficient capacity is available to accommodate projected BAU & project growth
• Respond to emails sent to the team distribution list in a timely manner.
• Handle incidents and requests with efficiency and a "customer first" mindset
• Maintain Windows Server platforms in a highly available, reliable, secure and performant manner
• General maintenance activities
• Provide technical support to application support and development teams
• Provide consultancy to application support and development teams
• Execute disaster recovery procedures when necessary and take part in regular DR tests
• Ensure patches and security updates are applied as per defined policies
• Maintain all operational procedures to ensure they are current and accurate
• Take part in On-Call & weekend work rotation; triaging and addressing production issues as they arise
• Identify cost saving and optimisation opportunities across the group.
• Build strong working relationships across the organisation
• Adhere to the core values of the bank.

**Mandatory Skills Description:**
* Windows Server 2k8 / 2k12 / 2k16 / 2k19 related technologies
* PowerShell (which is a key requirement for this role. At least a working understanding of PoSH. Not looking for scripters/developers, but the ability to write for loops and use basic commandoes it’s paramount)
* Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and other automation concepts
* Git or other source code control software

**Nice-to-Have Skills:**
* Security hardening principles in line with CIS industry benchmarks.
* Knowledge of networking, storage, database and virtualization layers
* Clustering and high-availability technologies
* Replication and disaster recovery
* Security and auditing
* Excellent knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX
* TCP/IP Networking Protocols
* Other scripting languages (batch, VBS, VBA & Python nice to haves).
* Ansible
* AWX / Ansible Tower
* REST API integration
* Service Now automation /integration
* Good working knowledge of GitHub, Subversion and TeamCity / similar tools
* CyberArk
* Splunk and QRadar
* Qualys
* Understanding of DNS
* Nutanix HCI.
* EMC and HDS storage arrays
* EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
* ESX VMWare
* IBM Tivoli and Netcool
* Active Directory, LDAP and Kerberos
* BMC Control-M
* SharePoint, JIRA and Confluence
* Working knowledge of cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle