Wintel and VMWare Administrator

***SC Cleared*** Wintel and VMWare Administrator Warrington or Gloucester + Remote (Maximum of 1 day p/ w onsite initially) 6 Month contract initially, good scope for extension £300 - £350 p/ d (Umbrella-PAYE) One of our blue chip clients are looking for a Wintel and VMWare Administrator to join the team on a long term programme of work. Key responsibilities: *Provide Support in migrating and upgrading the Windows 2012/ 2012 R2 Servers to Windows 2016/ 2019 Servers. *Windows (AD/ DNS/ DHCP), VMware Administration, VMware, patch management, image management with practical experience in troubleshooting issues of Windows OS and various services running on Windows OS. *Administration for directory services platforms to include configuration, policy configurations, troubleshooting and getting to root cause analysis, system design, upgrades, and configuration of monitoring tools Key Skills / Experience: * Significant experience managing Windows servers and infrastructure, including Active Directory. * Significant experience of Windows system administrators to support a production IT environment consisting of more than 200 servers. * Hands on Experience in Windows 2012 to Windows 2016 / 2019 OS upgrades. * Good understanding of Active Directory, OU structures, Group Policies, DNS, DFS, DHCP, IIS and WSUS. * Strong understanding and experience in an enterprise environment including backup and restore procedures. * Knowledge of Microsoft Cluster functionalities for High Availability * Maintain & perform periodic testing and upgradation of DR environment. * Participate in defined team projects and activities (such as new deployments, patch management). * Install and Configure ESXI and building VMWare infrastructure from Scratch * Hands on experience in configuring DRS, HA, VMware Networking ,Datastores and VMWare Cluster * Hands on experience on vCenter Install and configuration * Experience in P2V, VMotion and VMware virtual center. * Good hands-on command line of ESX. * Good hands-on Experience in diagnostics & troubleshooting of ESX server environment. * Experience in performance tuning of ESX VMWare and resource management between virtual machines. * Experience in backup and recovery of Virtual machines. * Knowledge of Microsoft Hyper-V Hypervisors. * Knowledge of ITIL processes * Working in 24X7 global environment. * Take responsibility for resolving problems in most effective way possible within SLA reaching root cause and preventing problems. This is a great opportunity on a long running programme of work. Apply now for your CV to reach me directly and we will reply as soon as possible. Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.