LEAD ADMINISTRATOR WINDOWS ADMIN - L1 (Band B3)

The Senior Windows Server Administrator is responsible for 24x7 operations of Microsoft Windows Server platforms and associated core infrastructure services, ensuring stability, availability, performance, and compliance. The role is operations-heavy and includes incident response/on-call, proactive monitoring, patching, standard change execution, and continuous service improvement across on-premises and hybrid environments.

Primary Skill Windows Server Administration (Must Have)

- Core Administration: Installation, configuration, roles/features, Windows services, event logs, scheduled tasks, storage management, clustering basics, Remote Server Administration Tools.
- Security & Hardening: Local security policies, firewall, credential hygiene, service accounts, TLS/cipher considerations, security baselines, auditing/logging, EDR coordination.
- Patching & Lifecycle: Windows Update/WSUS/SCCM (if applicable), maintenance windows, rollback planning, change management.
- Troubleshooting: Performance counters, resource bottleneck analysis (CPU/memory/disk/network), boot issues, BSOD/log analysis, service failures, connectivity, name resolution issues.
- Availability: Designing for resilience (redundancy, failover concepts), handling planned/unplanned downtime, maintenance planning.
- Remote Management: RDP security, WinRM, PowerShell remoting, JEA/JIT concepts (nice to have).
- Automation: PowerShell scripting for administration, reporting, bulk operations; version control familiarity (Git) is a plus.
- Documentation: Build standards, operational runbooks, RCA reports,



and system diagrams (text-based is acceptable).

3.2 Secondary / Cluster Skills (Must Have / Good to Have)

- Microsoft Active Directory Administration (Must Have): AD DS operations, user/computer/group management, OU design basics, Group Policy design & troubleshooting, domain trusts concepts, replication basics, sites & services, account lockout troubleshooting, AD health checks.
- DNS/DHCP (Must Have): Forward/reverse zones, record management, conditional forwarders, scavenging, troubleshooting name resolution; DHCP scopes, reservations, failover, options.
- VMware Implementation – vSphere (Must Have): ESXi/vCenter operations, VM provisioning, templates, snapshots (best practices), vMotion, HA/DRS, resource pools, datastore management, basic troubleshooting of host/VM performance.
- Networking Fundamentals (Must Have): TCP/IP, subnets, routing basics, VLAN concepts, firewall rules interpretation, load balancer concepts, packet-level troubleshooting basics (nslookup, ping, traceroute, netstat).
- Backup/Restore & DR (Must Have): Backup policies, restore validation, RPO/RTO understanding, DR runbooks; tools such as Veeam/Commvault/NetBackup (specify).
- Monitoring & Observability (Valuable to Have): SCOM, SolarWinds, Nagios, Prometheus exporters, Windows performance monitoring, log centralization (e.g., Splunk/ELK).
- Cloud/Hybrid (Good to Have): Azure IaaS basics, Azure AD/Entra concepts, hybrid identity, Azure Backup/ASR, networking and IAM basics.

Security & Compliance (Good to Have): Vulnerability remediation coordination, CIS benchmarks awareness, audit evidence collection, privileged access management concepts.

📌 Windows Active Directory Administrator (Hyderabad)
🏢 Wipro
📍 Hyderabad