Microsoft Expert - Senior Engineer (Exchange, ADFS, AD)

VON Consulting is an HR Consultancy company, providing solutions and services in the following areas: recruitment and executive search, personnel leasing, payroll, administration and training.

- BA/BS Computer Science or related field preferred and/or equivalent work experience.
- +7 years of experience in Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory architecture and administration.
- +7 years of experience with ADFS Infrastructure.
- +2 years of working knowledge of Windows 2016 and server hardware.
- Knowledge of Powershell is mandatory.
- Technical knowledge of Proofpoint edge gateway and DLP could be a “plus”.
- Knowledge of networks (TCP/IP, LAN/WAN).
- Analytical and interpersonal skills.
- Looking for passion, curiosity, attention to details, taking pride in one’s work, taking ownership, and having ideas/opinions.

Technical

- Maintain Exchange & SMTP servers (including O365).
- Manage and maintain Microsoft Active Directory systems.
- Maintain ADFS infrastructure.
- Work with DMARC, DKIM and SPF.
- Provide Exchange advanced, outlook, Active Directory support.
- Monitor document and report Exchange server performance and capacity planning.
- Provide documentation for all levels and train first and second level support.
- Provide technical support to applications owners and developers that will begin using the advanced Exchange features.
- Knowledge on basic PKI is a plus.


Maintenance

- Coordinate and scheduled preventative maintenance (applying fixes).
- Install and maintain Microsoft Active Directory.
- Install and maintain the most current version of Exchange.
- Install and maintain the most current version of Microsoft ADFS.


Planning and Documentation

- Develop and document collaboration standards and operating procedures.
- Plans for disaster recovery and testing.
- Assist Collaboration team in planning, designing and implementing a global communication systems.
- Assist, Design and plan relevant infrastructure used by ADFS (DNS, authentication, etc.).

This team also represents a last line of support in the group. 95% of the issues are resolved here, while for the 5% remaining they need patches to be developed by the provider (Microsoft, VMware, etc.). Activity in this area will only at 20-30% of the time.
The entire infrastructure covers 147 sites world-wide, but this is supported by several L1 to L3 teams, in different regions.