Windows Administrator (Immediate Joiners Only)

Roles & Responsibilities :

Windows

• Active Directory (AD DS, FSMO roles, replication, trusts)
• Group Policy (GPO design & troubleshooting)
• DNS (AD-integrated zones, forwarders, troubleshooting)
• DHCP (scopes, failover, reservations)
• Backup & Recovery (Veeam/Commvault/NetBackup, AD system state restore)
• PowerShell scripting (added advantage)

VMware

• vSphere 7/8/9 (ESXi, vCenter, HA/DRS, vLCM)
• • vSAN (disk groups, storage policies, FTT, health troubleshooting, stretched clusters)
• • HCI platforms VxRail & HPE SimpliVity Nutanix(deployment, upgrades, hardware health)
• • Site Recovery Manager (SRM) & vSphere Replication (DR orchestration, failover/failback)
• • vRealize/Aria Operations (vROps) performance monitoring & capacity planning
• • VMware Horizon (VDI deployment & troubleshooting) added advantage
• • Nutanix (Prism Element/Central, AHV)  added advantage
• • Storage & Networking (VMFS/NFS, vSwitch/vDS, multipathing, iSCSI/FC)
• • vMotion / Storage vMotion / DRS affinity rules
• • Backup integration for VMware (Veeam/Commvault VM-level backups, VADP)
• • Licensing & lifecycle management (vSphere/vSAN license tracking, EOL/upgrade planning)
• • Certificate management (VMCA, custom CA replacement)

Certifications (preferred, not mandatory)

• VMware VCP (Data Center Virtualization)
• Microsoft AZ-104 / MCSA-equivalent
• Nutanix NCP (if applicable)