- Please reach out to Viswash Beesetti at beesetti@pythian.com
OR
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/viswash/
Roles and Responsibilities
- Operate, maintain and administer solutions that contribute to the operational efficiency, availability and visibility of customer infrastructure.
- Planning maintenance activity, design documentation and standard procedures
- Provide Root Cause Analysis reports for outages/incidents (ITIL - Problem Management)
- Observe and provide feedback on the current state of the clients infrastructure, and identify opportunities to improve resiliency, reduce the occurrence of incidents and automate repetitive administrative and operational tasks.
- Responsible for improving and maintaining team documentation about client systems and infrastructure, procedures, policies and schedules.
- Gather and document information about client environments through audit activities, and analyze the information to identify opportunities for improvement and application of best practices.
- Work collaboratively with teammates to contribute to the continuous improvement of our working culture.
Desired Candidate Profile
- Solid understanding of system administration fundamentals with a Microsoft focus:
- Windows Server deployment, configuration and performance tuning
- Active Directory architecture, deployment, migration and group policy management
- TCP/IP networking, NIC teaming, and network services configuration (DNS, NTP, DHCP, etc.)
- Strong understanding of backup solutions and how to map requirements into solutions
- Strong understanding of multiple monitoring solutions and how to implement and manage themMicrosoft clustering technologies
- Administration of web servers and supporting technologies, IIS and .NET applications:
- Understanding of containerisation
- Experience with System Center or related technology in the areas of:
- Systems and application monitoring
- Configuration management and provisioning
- Scripting and automation of administrative tasks using PowerShell/Python and Desired State Configuration
- Strong understanding of Cloud Systems (Azure, AWS and/or GCP)
- Understanding of identity management and synchronization solutions (Azure AD)Cloud deployments (Terraform, Azure ARM Templates, Cloudformation, Deployment Manager )
- Cloud automation and Scripting (Azure Automation, PowerShell, Python, YAML)
- Cloud Networking
- Knowledge of VPC, Virtual networks, Resource groups
- Able to understand, plan, and implement hybrid connectivity between on-premises network equipment and multiple cloud providers (e.g IPSEC VPN)Cloud routing, firewalling, load balancing
- Familiarity with ITIL principles (change/incident management, etc)
- Ability to pick up new technologies quickly, understand problems and apply knowledge appropriately.
- Good organizational skills with the ability to work solo or as part of a delivery team as required
Perks and Benefits
- Love your career: Competitive total rewards package with excellent take home salaries, shifted work time bonus and an annual bonus plan!
- Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with a minimum 0.6 Lakh INR* annual training allowance; 2 paid professional development days, attend conferences, become certified, whatever you like!
- Love your work/life balance: 3 weeks of paid time off and flexible working hours. While our Hyderabad and Bangalore offices remain closed due to the pandemic, work from your home, all you need is a stable internet connection!
- Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, with 0.3 lakh INR* budget to personalise your work environment!
- Love your community: Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity. To support in keeping our people, their families and their communities safe, Pythian is covering the cost of the Covid 19 Vaccine for all eligible employees in India!