Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities NOTE: This job profile is exclusively for people with skills on designing solutions on Microsoft Wintel technologies; hence, administrators/support resources, please do not apply.
The successful applicant will work as part of a global solutions team to DESIGN, Build Effort Estimation & DEPLOY Wintel technologies Including Identity & Access both on-prem and cloud for existing and prospective clients through RFP / RFI.
The key responsibilities of the role include:
Owning the design of specific technology solutions from high-level and detailed-level designs to deployment and handover to delivery with a minimum of 10+ years experience in relevant field
Design:
- Review, design, guide, and execute efficient solutions that are operationally cost-effective to maintain.
- Review, design and execute solutions to availability and resilience targets in line with requirements.
- Exploit and develop shared design blueprint and documentation for ongoing reuse
- Determine server specifications and infrastructure requirements as part of capacity planning (such as storage, network security, etc.)
- Both verbally and in written form, articulate solutions and benefits accurately and persuasively, reflecting the client s interests or concerns.
- Ensure that the detailed solutions align with client and Cognizant strategy and SLAs.
- Drive project calls and perform presales activities on on-premises, cloud and hybrid deployments.
- Validate HLD, LLD and other project documents.
- Create efforts and timelines for projects.
- Review and identify the risks in projects and define the mitigation plan
Details Skills & Experience (List Primary / Optional / good-to-have skills) Key technical skills required
The following are the mandatory requirements of infrastructure-based solutions experience for this role:
Experience in the design implementation of large-scale solutions and platforms with the following technologies:
- Expert level of understanding and hands-on experience in Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016
- Exposure to migration projects, build, re platform.
- Guide review and assessment of environment for various migrations.
- Designing the remediation and migration approach, milestones, timelines, risk and mitigation
- Active Directory 2003/2008 R2/2012 Services design, sizing, migration and implementation for at least 6000 objects
- Intra and Inter-Active Directory Forests Migration and Co-existence
- Azure AD, Conditional Access and MFA/SSPR configuration.
- Active Directory Consolidation
- Must have designed and implemented File & Print and DFS environments
- Must have executed File & Print migrations
- Must have executed File Server to DFS migrations
- Hands on experience in migrating large scale users, computers and member servers from various source Forest to target Forest
- Knowledge on Azure - PaaS and IaaS
- Knowledge of Access Management Solutions - Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) to design the integration for Azure and Office 365
- Active Directory Integration Capability with Identity Management Systems (MS FIM, MIM, etc.)
- Windows platform upgrade
- Design and implementation of Hyper V cluster and migration of work load
- Working knowledge of Application migration and migration tools like AppZero
- Application Assessment and compatibility test tools like Factfinder from Blue stripe and Change Base from Quest
- Assess existing AD infrastructures and make recommendations for improving design and performance
- Working experience on various migration tools such as ADMT, Quest/Binary Tree Tools, Data migration tools like Double take, Quest, Sharegate
- Provision and Configure Azure AD and integrating with onprem AD
- OneDrive Deployment using Share gate and metalogic
- Previous experience of working on similar Active Directory Transformation projects, working on customer sites and liaising with client community
- Create detailed design, migration/transition documentation based on the project requirements
- Design and execute complex build and migration projects on other Wintel technologies like DNS, Hyper-V, KMS, WINS, DHCP, IPAM, PKI, RADIUS, File Services, Print Services, Direct Access and terminal services(RDS)
- AD Replication, Authentication and Authorization, Group Policies, ADAM and AD LDS, AD Performance tuning, domain and forest migrations.
- ODFB migration
- Work to integrate other tools, platforms, and applications to realise robust solutions that tie into AD
- Assist in developing and maintaining DR Plans for the AD environment.
- Knowledge of migration processes with specific emphasis on resource migration on file, DFS, print & DHCP.
- Third-party solutions on file and print solutions like Cerato, follow me printing, managed printing, secure printing, Ctera, Ricoh printing and Double-take
- Knowledge of business applications integration with Active Directory through LDAP, SSO Providers, etc.
- Collaborate with Project Managers, Delivery Managers & Solution Architects to translate requirements into technical specifications
- Microsoft PowerShell scripting and tool-making skills to automate any of the above workload.
- Experience in carrying the assessment of Active directory environment to achieve security, reliability, availability and operational efficiency
Primary skills (Rating as per assessment 3 an above) Secondary skills Competencies Same as above Core personal qualities required:
- The applicant will have exceptional verbal and communication qualities:
- Able to present and communicate technical designs and solutions to peers.
- Interact clearly with onshore project teams
- Exceptional written skills are required for solution documentation creation for both technical and non-technical material.
- A self-driven team leader with a flexible and dynamic style, able to work with minimum supervision as well as perform under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- A background of infrastructure design engineering and deployment experience in an Outsource service environment.
- Own and represent specific solution detailed designs through to deployment and acceptance by delivery.
- As an Infrastructure specialist, maintain a thorough understanding of new product features, new solutions and approaches, along with potential business benefits to the architecture team and wider service line
- Continuously innovate and identify solution improvements specifically aimed at reducing the on-going operation costs
Core technology competencies required:
Appropriate technology certification:
- MCSE: Server Infrastructure on Windows Server 2012/2012 /2019 R2
