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27 December 2010

Senior System Engineer - Oman

* Schedule work on a day to day basis to enable daily activity targets to be met, ‎ensuring necessary resources are allocated to meet objectives
* Arrange the optimum distribution of work on a day to day basis
* Undertake regular (daily, weekly, monthly) checks on the work completed by ‎team members under own supervision, ensuring optimum outputs are of an ‎acceptable standard and look for ways to continuously improve the ‎effectiveness of work
* Provide on the job support and systematic knowledge transfer to team ‎members, helping them attain the necessary skills, and identify the formal ‎training requirements of the team with line management, where it cannot be ‎met locally
* Hold regular training sessions for the operations staff in various areas to insure ‎skill improvements. ‎
* Provide a point of contact for team members needing personal support, ‎ensuring they are aware of the company’s requirements of them, and ‎supporting them in the achievement of those requirements
* Maintain a level of technical expertise sufficient to act as a technical point of ‎reference for team members, to give them appropriate technical direction and ‎to undertake technical work themselves
* Disseminate and escalate communications appropriately across the business
* Undertake appraisals and contribute to the drafting and agreement to ‎development plans for team members and coach and support them to ‎achieve development objectives
* Ability to work independently to support all Windows servers providing ‎connection services for the unit systems and customers.‎
* Ability to work on shifts and cover on-call schedules during weekends, ‎off-working hours, public holidays, etc.‎
* Ability to resolve escalated tickets and work with daily operations issues, ‎and initiate change requests when necessary
* Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills ‎
* Monitor system logs, evaluate, and prevent security/virus related issues ‎and activates ‎
* Very strong communications skills and analytical aptitude with the ability ‎to express technical concepts effectively, both verbal and in written form ‎for documentation
* Conduct system analysis and development, with limited support and ‎direction from professional staff, to keep the systems current with ‎changing technologies
* Reports any alarming or abnormal behaviour or findings in the system ‎anticipating issues and resolving them before they happen.‎
* Understands the critical processing cycles in detail such as email billing ‎and the communication process between the billing and provisioning ‎systems and/or any other relevant processing cycles.‎
* Attend, administer support Microsoft Provisioning System and insure ‎functionality and assist in resolving issues related to this area. ‎
* Provide guidance and training for both Exchange and Provisioning. ‎
* Manages future versions of the windows applications and insure that they ‎are fully tested and implemented correctly
* Maintains DNS, SMTP, domain controllers, active directory applications, ‎mail, and web servers.‎
* Ensures secure operation of all servers and services though the use of ‎security and encryption tools such as SSH, SSL, PGP, IPSec and through ‎extensive staff training and documentation.‎
* Meets regularly with the informatics management to assess ongoing ‎projects, system maintenance and development, prioritizes work and plan ‎future development. ‎
* Manages Windows account maintenance including adds, changes and ‎removes.‎
* Manages Windows security features to protect confidential information ‎while allowing appropriate access.‎
* Researches, installs, and tests software updates and patches to supported ‎applications and various operating systems
* Documents changes and follow the standard change management ‎procedures.‎
* Manages the current capacity for the infrastructure forecasting expected ‎growth in desk and resources. ‎
* To maintain and support systems on site and in user location where ‎necessary
* Participate in business driven projects, and assist in planning and ‎implementation to set project plan
* Pro-actively manage and optimize HMC systems and interface with ‎vendors for support if required ‎

Requirements
* Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) certified on Microsoft Exchange ‎Server ‎
* Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist certification MCTS
* Microsoft Certified IT Professional certification MCITP