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Senior Server Engineer

Primary Talent Partners
  • Jersey City, NJ
  • $53–$63 Per Hour
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1 day ago

Job Description

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Senior Server Engineer to join a financial services company in Jersey City, NJ. This is an 11-month contract to start with the potential for extensions. 


Pay:$53.00 - $63.00 /hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.


Description:
The principle objective of this position is to architect and provide expert level support and strategy for the production Windows server environment. Maintain proactive performance monitoring of the environment utilizing specific monitoring tools. Play an active role in the day-to-day support activities, administration and projects associated with windows infrastructure/applications and maintain all the Windows servers.


Position requirements:
  • 10 plus years of experience preferred.
  • Expert knowledge of Windows OS (2022/2019/2016/2012) and Windows 2022/2019/2016/2012 Enterprise components and technologies such as Domains, DNS, Registries, DHCP/WINS.
  • Expert knowledge of Microsoft cluster technologies and strategies: server cluster, network and component load balancing
  • Strong knowledge of Active Directory
  • Good knowledge of VMWare vSphere and associated products (eg vCenter, SRM)
  • Hyper-v knowledge is a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of performance management and capacity planning.
  • Strong knowledge of the SAN / EMC storage including the different SRDF types
  • "Strong knowledge of installing Windows W2K22 and above on industry standard hardware (e.g. Client/IBM/Dell -including blade servers)”
  • Knowledge and experience of IIS, .NET,  Knowledge of F5 are a big plus
  • Working knowledge of  Dynatrace monitoring is a plus.
  • Good working knowledge of networking functions (i.e. function of TCP/IP, SNMP) subnetting and routing.
  • Knowledge of relational databases such as Sybase, Oracle, and SQL along with MQ Series.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Project Management and Documentation skills
  • Service oriented, positive, committed and enthusiastic team player.
  • Will be required to work weekends & on an on-call rotation 24*7
  • Proficient in English.

Position Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for supporting a trading environment consisting of Windows 2016/2019/2022 servers & to be actively involved in the planning & implementation of new projects.
  • Proactively monitor virtual environment for capacity, stress, risk and workload and take necessary remediation steps
  • Build & support Microsoft Failover clusters & also work with stretch clusters.
  • Maintain the windows environment in the Americas Region for all business lines
  • Interface with Vendors and Internal Global Teams to ensure the environment conforms to the current standards.
  • Manage Business Continuance in relation to Disaster Recovery.
  • Maintain System high reliability, availability and resiliency levels.
  • Provide 1st, 2nd and 3rd Level Support for the production Environments
  • Proactive System Performance Monitoring (using Geneos, Dynatrace Client/DELL/IBM ) and capacity management
  • Perform system upgrades and mandatory security/OS patching.
  • Liaise with application support teams to gather requirements, design, and deploy standard systems
  • Project implementation for all business lines.
  • Provide 24*7 On call support based on rotation within the team
  • Perform thorough morning checks on all critical applications using existing tools or scripts.
  • Strictly abide and follow the company policy and procedures pertaining to change and incident management.
  • Responsible for ensuring that all systems are deployed consistent with group standards and best practices.
  • Incident and Problem management: take ownership and work with team to resolve production related issues.
  • Follow groups standard security practices within the environment.
  • Maintain an accurate and current inventory


Primary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at info@primarytalentpartners.com

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Numbers & Facts

LocationJersey City, NJ
Salary$53–$63 Per Hour

Skills

  • 2nd Level Supportunmatched
  • 3rd Level Supportunmatched
  • Best Practicesunmatched
  • Blade Serversunmatched
  • Capacity Managementunmatched
  • Capacity and Performance Managementunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Computer Securityunmatched
  • DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)unmatched
  • DNS (Domain Name System)unmatched
  • Dell Computersunmatched
  • Disaster Recoveryunmatched
  • Documentationunmatched
  • EMC Storageunmatched
  • English Languageunmatched
  • Environmental Monitoringunmatched
  • F5 Network Softwareunmatched
  • Failoverunmatched
  • Financial Servicesunmatched
  • High Availabilityunmatched
  • High Reliabilityunmatched
  • IBM Product Familyunmatched
  • IBM WebSphere MQ (Message Queue)unmatched
  • Incident Managementunmatched
  • Industry Standardsunmatched
  • Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
  • Load Balancingunmatched
  • Microsoft .NETunmatched
  • Microsoft Active Directoryunmatched
  • Microsoft Hyper-Vunmatched
  • Microsoft IIS Web Server (Internet Information Services)unmatched
  • Microsoft Product Familyunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows 2000unmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Operating Systemunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Serverunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows System Administrationunmatched
  • On Callunmatched
  • Oracle Databaseunmatched
  • Performance Analysisunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Production Supportunmatched
  • Production Systemsunmatched
  • Project/Program Managementunmatched
  • Relational Databases (RDBMS)unmatched
  • Requirements Managementunmatched
  • Riskunmatched
  • SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)unmatched
  • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
  • Security Patchesunmatched
  • Server Clustersunmatched
  • Software Administrationunmatched
  • Storage Area Network (SAN)unmatched
  • Subnettingunmatched
  • Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)unmatched
  • Sybase Product Familyunmatched
  • Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
  • Systems Maintenanceunmatched
  • Systems Reliabilityunmatched
  • TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)unmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Technical Strategyunmatched
  • VMWare vCenterunmatched
  • VMWare vSphereunmatched
  • Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
  • WINS (Windows Internet Naming Services)unmatched

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