CBTS is searching for a Windows Server Administrator for a 6-month contract to Hire (Fulltime/Permanent) role. Candidates must be US Citizens per government requirements. Candidates. Candidates must also live in either Cincinnati, OH, Nashville, TN or Tampa, FL. This Windows engineer should have professional public cloud experience along with operations experience.
Responsibilities:
- Work as part of a technical support team delivering a quality service to single/multiple clients using a variety of hardware and software products
- Analyze and understand clients' needs and expectations, as well as alternative architectures and trends
- Interview clients' technical teams to gather relevant information to facilitate architectural requirements definitions
- Assist in small to medium scale design projects, interfacing with project managers
- Establish, explain, and validate the solution testing criteria for projects
- Design services in accordance with client’s standards and vendor best practices
- Maintain and develop scripting to help automate and monitor clients (e.g. PowerShell, Cloud Watch, OEM, Splunk)
- Remain current on vendor best practices as it relates to the interlinking of technologies (Windows, AWS Cloud, Azure cloud)
- Provide expertise on system performance tuning, capacity planning, and maintenance patching and new version installation
- Develop and maintain standard templates for repeatable build outs
- Work with vendors and drive them to help us meet our service level obligations
- Plan and implement small to medium scale changes on production systems
- Analyze and assess the impact and risk of small to medium risk changes on production systems
- Install, configure, patch and maintain appropriate technologies (e.g. servers/databases/network/storage)
- Design and assist small to medium scale disaster recovery tests
- Create and review technical system recovery plans
- Demonstrate commitment to Service Excellence
- Assist Windows team in performing major upgrades of systems and associated products
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 1-2 years Windows Server Administration experience
- Minimum of 1-year Public Cloud administration (i.e. AWS, Azure, Google, OCI)
- Minimum of 1-year experience working on an enterprise level operations team
- US Citizen with the ability to pass stringent background checks
Preferred Skills:
- AWS Cloud experience
- Scripting (python, PowerShell, VBS)
- Splunk and OEM administration
- Terraform
- Associate or bachelor's degree in a technical area
- WSUS
- Active Directory/DNS
- Proven ability to work independently and as a team member
- Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
