Systems Administrator (Active Directory Expert)
Keywords Studios, Philippines

Active Directory

• Lead the regional migrations from child domains into the forest root domain
• Lead the regional integrations from standalone domains into the forest root domain
• Review, document, plan and execute best practices on the region’s AD OU’s
• Plan, document and promote new DC’s on new locations or office integrations.
• Lead the decommission and cleanup of legacy domains across the region.
• Suggest and lead the overall improvement of the company’s Active Directory following best practices in security, monitoring and permission management.
• Proactively contribute to the improvement of the infrastructure suggesting proposals, tools or projects to streamline actions involving Active Directory.
• Review, document and consolidate existing GPO’s across the region
• Maintain and implement new GPO policies according to regional and global policies

Communicate effectively with L1 and L2 IT support staff to ensure smooth operations in production

Maintain and improve existing deployment servers and windows update services

Train and mentor the other IT team members

Document every project and task during and after completion

Conform to and enforce company IT security policies

Requirements

• Minimum 5 to 7 years of IT technical experience on Active Directory
• Scripting (PowerShell needed, Python, Bash, etc also helpful)
• Automation and Configuration Management (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc)
• Backups (Veeam Backup and Replication, any other online backup services, and DRP design)
• MS Windows Server 2012-2019. (DNS, AD, DHCP, WSUS, WDS+MDT, IIS, RDP, GPOs)
• Linux (Server and Client configuration, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE)
• MS Office 365 (Powershell management)
• VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.7/7
• File storage (Storage controllers, Samba, FreeNAS, etc.)
• Knowledgeable on Firewall, switch, router management (Palo Alto, Cisco, Dell, etc)
• Understanding of IPSec, GRE, PPTP, OpenVPN
• File transfer across long distance (SFTP, Perforce, DFS, Aspera, Torrent, etc.)
• Knowledge in best practices and project management (ITIL, Agile, etc.
• High-level of problem-solving skills
• Proactive and autonomous in completing tasks
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Good level of spoken and written English mandatory
• Good communication skills (written, verbal, and face-to-face)
• Ability to work under a fast-paced, high-intensity work environment
• Self-Starter and able to work independently

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