VAM Systems is currently looking for On-Premises Exchange & Infrastructure Administrator for our Bahrain operations with the following skillsets & terms and conditions:
Required Skills & Experience
- Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of dedicated professional experience managing Windows Server and Active Directory environments within an enterprise setting.
- Exchange Expertise: Proven track record with bare-metal and clustered engineering for Exchange 2016, 2019, or Subscription Edition (SE).
- Virtualization Mastery: Hands-on administrative competency inside production VMware vSphere and Hyper-V compute topologies.
- Network Foundations: Firm grasp of SMTP routing, DNS infrastructure (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC architectures), and on-premises mail gateway security.
- Automation Capabilities: Strong programmatic capability utilizing PowerShell to automate complex messaging administrative flows.
Key Responsibilities
- Exchange & Infrastructure Management: Install, update, and manage standalone and clustered on-premises Microsoft Exchange Servers (2016/2019) and SE across physical and virtual systems.
- High Availability & Clustering: Configure, test, and optimize multi-site Database Availability Groups (DAGs) and Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) to ensure uninterrupted email communication.
- Hypervisor Administration: Deploy, provision, and maintain virtual machine resources across both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments supporting core enterprise services.
- Directory Integration: Maintain Active Directory structures, manage user mailboxes, distribution groups, security permissions, and schema updates tailored for Exchange implementations.
- Lifecycle Management: Plan and execute patches, hotfixes, Cumulative Updates (CUs), and Security Updates (SUs) alongside migrating legacy infrastructures toward Exchange Server SE platforms.
- Backup & Disaster Recovery: Formulate, validate, and execute bare-metal restoration workflows, mailbox database consistency checks, and transaction log truncation policies.
- Performance Monitoring & Automation: Create advanced PowerShell scripts for programmatic administration, bulk provisioning, monitoring, and automated response reporting.
Core Technical Stack
- Messaging: Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 / 2019 / SE (Subscription Edition)
- Virtualization: VMware vSphere (ESXi/vCenter) & Microsoft Hyper-V
- Directory Services: Windows Server, Active Directory (AD), DNS, Group Policy (GPO)
- High Availability: Database Availability Groups (DAGs), Windows Failover Clustering
Desired Candidate Profile
- Experience: Minimum of 5+ years of dedicated professional experience managing Windows Server and Active Directory environments within an enterprise setting.
- Exchange Expertise: Proven track record with bare-metal and clustered engineering for Exchange 2016, 2019, or Subscription Edition (SE).
- Virtualization Mastery: Hands-on administrative competency inside production VMware vSphere and Hyper-V compute topologies.
- Network Foundations: Firm grasp of SMTP routing, DNS infrastructure (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC architectures), and on-premises mail gateway security.
- Automation Capabilities: Strong programmatic capability utilizing PowerShell to automate complex messaging administrative flows.