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Windows System Admin Skills & Duties

The document outlines the responsibilities and skills for a system admin role. Key responsibilities include operations ownership of Windows servers and applications; setup and maintenance of large Windows deployments; incident resolution and troubleshooting; liaising with customer support; automating processes; monitoring performance; and participating in an on-call rotation. Required skills are expertise in Windows operating systems, Active Directory, networking fundamentals, storage, application protocols, databases like SQL, and tools like Nagios, Cacti, GIT/SVN. Strong scripting abilities and hardware experience are listed as good to have additional skills.

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Windows System Admin Skills & Duties

The document outlines the responsibilities and skills for a system admin role. Key responsibilities include operations ownership of Windows servers and applications; setup and maintenance of large Windows deployments; incident resolution and troubleshooting; liaising with customer support; automating processes; monitoring performance; and participating in an on-call rotation. Required skills are expertise in Windows operating systems, Active Directory, networking fundamentals, storage, application protocols, databases like SQL, and tools like Nagios, Cacti, GIT/SVN. Strong scripting abilities and hardware experience are listed as good to have additional skills.

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System Admin Responsibilities & Skills Responsibilities

Operations ownership of projects using Windows operating System and Windows application stacks (IIS, MS-SQL, ASP, DotNet, Java etc) Responsible for setup and uptime of large Windows deployments (100s of servers) Configure and optimize database servers, web servers, vps and cloud servers etc Incident analysis/RCAs/troubleshooting and identification of permanent resolutions Liaison with customer support teams and resolve customer issues. Recommend/implement automated processes for scaling operations Centralized management of applications & configuration using Active Directory. Plan & automate migrations. Plan and execute service/site maintenance schedules. Contribute to the operations handbook. Pro-actively monitor product/services/site performance, uptime, availability and analyze logs / metrics. Participate on on-call rotation for fixing service downtime incidents.

Skills
You are an expert/master of some of the below tools/skills

Windows: Good understanding of Windows 2000/2003/2008 Operating Systems, Active Directory Concepts & management, Sysinternal scripts, Analyzing Event logs etc. Fundamentals: Good DNS & Networking Fundamentals, TCP/UDP, IP Routing, HA & Load Balancing Concepts. Storage: RAID, DAS, SAN, NAS fundamentals & operational skills Application Protocols: Excellent understanding of SMTP,HTTP,FTP,IMAP,POP Applications: IIS, Tomcat, PHP etc. Databases: Excellent understanding of - SQL/RDBMS, MS-SQL. Tools/Utilities: Nagios, Cacti, GIT/SVN, DHCP, WDS, WMI, WSUS, MSI Packages, IPSec. Others: Regular expressions, Excellent troubleshooting skills. Good to have: o Scripting/Programming: Powershell/VB Script o Systems/Hardware: LOM/IPMI/IP KVMs, Dell Hardware.

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