Senior Windows Server Engineer
Job at a Glance
- Title: Senior Windows Server Engineer
- Location: Jersey City, NJ
- Contract: W2 only, 11 month contract with potential for extension or conversion to full time with either the client or CEI
- Pay: $ 63.00/hour + optional medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match
Overview
We are seeking a Senior Windows Server Engineer to architect and provide expert-level support for a production Windows Server environment within a mission-critical trading setting. This role focuses on proactive monitoring, reliability engineering, patching and upgrades, and the design and support of high-availability Windows infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and support a production Windows Server environment (Windows Server 2016/2019/2022) in a high-availability, performance-sensitive environment.
- Provide hands-on administration and day-to-day production support, including participation in an on-call rotation (24x7) and weekend work as required.
- Build, support, and maintain Microsoft Failover Clusters, including stretch cluster concepts.
- Perform proactive performance monitoring, capacity planning, and remediation using enterprise monitoring tools and scripts.
- Execute system upgrades and mandatory security/OS patching while adhering to change and incident management standards.
- Partner with application support teams to gather requirements, design solutions, and deploy standard systems.
- Own incident and problem resolution for production issues while enforcing standard security practices and maintaining accurate system inventory.
Required Skills
- Expert administration of Windows Server (2012/2016/2019/2022) and core enterprise services (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP/WINS, Windows registries).
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft clustering technologies and load-balancing strategies.
- Strong experience with performance monitoring and capacity planning in production environments.
- Strong knowledge of SAN/storage concepts, including EMC storage and SRDF replication types.
- Experience installing and supporting Windows Server on industry-standard hardware (e.g., HP/IBM/Dell, including blade servers).
- Working knowledge of virtualization platforms, including VMware vSphere and related tooling (e.g., vCenter; SRM preferred).
- Solid understanding of core networking concepts (TCP/IP, SNMP, subnetting, routing).
- Strong communication, documentation, and service-oriented collaboration skills.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (or equivalent related work experience).
Preferred Skills
- Hyper-V experience.
- Experience with IIS and .NET.
- F5 experience.
- Dynatrace experience.
- Exposure to enterprise monitoring tooling such as Geneos.
- Working knowledge of relational databases and middleware, such as Oracle, SQL, Sybase, and MQ Series.
- Project management experience supporting infrastructure initiatives.
Why Should I Apply?
This is an opportunity to own and evolve a mission-critical Windows infrastructure environment, with direct responsibility for reliability, availability, and operational excellence in production systems.
About CEI:
As a trusted technology partner, CEI delivers solutions that help our customers transform their business and achieve meaningful results. From strategy and custom application development through application management - our technology and digital experience services are tailored to meet each unique need of our customers. Our staffing solutions bring specialized skills to complement our customers' workforce and project requirements.
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