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Sr. Windows Administrator

RemoteOnsiteFull TimeSeniorPosted 1 month agoHidden Gem · Himalayas

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Required skills

  • Windows
  • Microsoft Server
  • Clustering
  • VMware
  • Oracle OCI
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Directory Services
  • Identity Services
  • Systems Monitoring

Nice to have

  • AI-enabled solutions
  • Process Intelligence

Role summary

The Sr. Windows Administrator provides comprehensive Systems Administration support for Windows environments across multiple locations. This role involves installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of hardware, software, applications, and network connectivity. Key responsibilities include managing incident tickets, ensuring system compliance, enhancing system performance, and coordinating with clients to align operational recommendations with business needs. The position also contributes to the design and maintenance of infrastructure, including operating systems, virtualization, cloud platforms, and identity services, with an emphasis on automation and data-driven improvements. Training users and team members is also a core function.

What success looks like in this role:

U.S. citizenship and U.S. residency required.

Position Summary

The Windows Admin provides ongoing Systems Administration support, including installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of hardware, software, applications, and connectivity components for Windows environments across multiple locations. This role provides technical support and advises on the use of programming tools, database systems, and networks.

Operational responsibilities include remediation of daily incident tickets, system compliance, system run enhancement, testing, staging, policy/procedure enhancement, client contact coordination, and operational recommendations to address availability and reliability issues on Windows systems.

Core Responsibilities

Systems Administration & Support

  • Provides Systems Administration support for multiple organizations across the company, building on responsibilities such as:

  • “Provides Systems Administration hands-on support, troubleshooting and technical guidance.”

  • Analyzes and recommends commercially available hardware and software capable of meeting network, systems, and user requirements.

  • Contributes to the design, development, and maintenance of Systems Administration infrastructure (operating systems, virtualization platforms, Cloud infrastructure, directory and identity services, monitoring and management, middleware and applications).

  • Initiates and implements automation, process intelligence, and AI-enabled solutions to support data-driven decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and enhance service delivery

Client Engagement & Requirements

  • Engages with clients to gather specifications, requirements, and systems expectations.

  • Coordinates with client contacts to align operational recommendations with business needs.

Performance & Testing

  • Configures and maintains software performance, stress, and load tests, and makes recommendations based on results.

  • Remediates daily incident tickets to maintain Windows system availability and reliability.

Training & Knowledge Transfer

  • Conducts training sessions with users and Systems Administration team members.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

  • BA/BS degree and 6-8 years of relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Strong expertise in Windows systems administration.
  • Experience with Microsoft Server, including clustering.
  • Experience with VMware.
  • Required knowledge of disaster recovery (DR) and high-availability (HA) principles, including in cloud environments — Oracle OCI and Microsoft Azure.
  • U.S. Citizenship and U.S. residency required.

This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

Unisys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to age, caste, citizenship, color, disability, family medical history, family status, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, parental status, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

This commitment includes our efforts to provide for all those who seek to express interest in employment the opportunity to participate without barriers. If you are a US job seeker unable to review the job opportunities herein, or cannot otherwise complete your expression of interest, without additional assistance and would like to discuss a request for reasonable accommodation, please contact our Global Recruiting organization at or alternatively Toll Free: 888-560-1782 (Prompt 4). US job seekers can find more information about Unisys’ EEO commitment here.

Originally posted on Himalayas

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