Wintel Specialist

Company Description**
Writing the future. Together.**

Avaloq is a value driven, fast-paced financial technology and services company and we are committed to developing the banking solutions of tomorrow.

Job Description**
Your Team**

Platform Operations Team holds the fort to the Infrastructure and the Platform services to support Avaloq’s internal and external clients on a day-to-day basis. Being part of a dynamic team, the SMEs are involved in the inception, building and operating of the Infrastructure and Platform services, collaborating closely with Applications, Security Operations and Engineering teams.

As an individual contributor, he/she will be reporting to the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Team Lead. Also, he/she will work with the vendor team, network team, database administrator, backup and storage team, middleware team and deployment team.

This person is largely responsible for providing operational operating systems and services to the organization.
**Your Mission**
- Primary responsibilities include owning, tracking and resolving windows operating systems related incidents and requests
- Fulfilling requests and resolving incidents within SLAs, reviewing service related reports (e.g: servers backups and recovery, maintenance, monitoring) on a daily basis to ensure service related issues are identified and resolved within established SLAs
User administration on Windows systems including creates, modifies, and deletion of accounts, for user rights assignment and permission configurations, using Active Directory in a multi-domain setup
- Monitors and analyse system performance, detailing the system resource utilization versus user experiences and putting forth recommendations to improve users’ experience, ensuring high level of availability and usability
- Infrastructure Management VMware-based virtualization
- Software Distribution Management based on System Center Configuration Manager

Qualifications**
What you need**
- Between 5 to 10 years of working experience in a system administrator capacity
- Ideally in vendor / system integrator background. No banking/financial industry experience required
- Experience in both virtualized and physical environments with Windows Servers
- Good knowledge of windows script programming and automation tasks.Solid hands-on experience in the following areas are required:

- VMWare
- Windows Servers
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Active Directory
- DNS /DHCP services
- Clustering services
- Citrix Services / Desktop Virtualization
- Windows SCCM
**You will get extra points for the following**
- AWS experiences
- DevOps experience
- Automation based on VMware stack

Additional Information**
Now let's talk about perks and compensation**

We offer high flexibility in regards to working models (e.g. part time and home office models are possible depending on business requirements). Our base salaries are competitive and if you prove to be a superstar, you might even be entitled to an extraordinary achievement reward. Avaloq aims to share its success with all its employees by paying out “Success Share Units” depending on its performance in a given year.

At Avaloq we embrace diversity, we embrace difference. We are whole-heartedly committed to equal employment opportunities and we foster an inclusive culture where everyone’s' contributions are valued and their voices are listened to. We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other fascinating characteristics that make us different. Please note that our job descriptions are intended to be written in an inclusive and gender neutral language.
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