We are currently looking for Exchange & Infrastructure Administrator for our Bahrain operations with the following skillsets & terms and conditions:
Required Technical Skills & Qualifications
- Education & Certifications: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent field. Vendor-specific certifications (VMware VCP, Microsoft MCSE/Messaging) are highly advantageous.
- Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience managing Windows Server and Active Directory environments.
- Networking & Mail Protocols: In-depth understanding of standard mail flow protocols (SMTP, IMAP, POP3), local load balancers, split-brain DNS setups, and SSL/TLS certificates.
- Network Infrastructure: Strong functional literacy with layer 4-7 hardware load balancers, split-brain DNS zone configurations, firewalls, and complex mail-routing rules.
- Virtualization Expertise: Deep operational literacy provisioning and managing multi-hypervisor nodes via VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V ecosystems.
- Automation Proficiency: Strong proficiency writing advanced administrative PowerShell scripts for bulk mailbox operations, configuration audits, and log analysis.
- Problem Solving: Proven track record troubleshooting Tier-3 mail delivery failures, tracking down transport delays, and handling database corruption recovery.
- Hardware & Storage: Solid background managing enterprise storage frameworks (SAN/NAS/iSCSI).
Key Responsibilities
- Exchange SE Installation & Upgrades: Lead the architectural planning, clean installation, and technical upgradation from previous Exchange legacy versions (2016/2019) to Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE), ensuring zero data loss and minimal user disruption.
- Exchange & Infrastructure Management: Install, update, and manage standalone and clustered on-premises Microsoft Exchange Servers (2016/2019) across physical and virtual systems.
- High Availability & Database Care: Configure, monitor, and optimize multi-site Database Availability Groups (DAGs). Perform routine database defragmentation, stability audits, and proactively manage storage caps.
- Virtualization Administration: Provision, scale, and maintain enterprise hypervisor environments using both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V to support core messaging infrastructure.
- Active Directory Alignment: Manage schema extensions, directory replication, permissions, group policies, and object compliance directly tied to the underlying Microsoft Exchange messaging infrastructure.
- Server Patching Pipelines: Manually plan, validate, and deploy Cumulative Updates (CUs) and Security Updates (SUs) across all local Exchange and Windows Server hosting nodes.
- Backup & Disaster Recovery: Implement regular bare-metal backup strategies and lead verification drills for instant disaster recovery and mail database restoration.
Terms and conditions
Joining time frame: (15 - 30 days)
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or an equivalent field
- 5+ years of hands-on experience managing Windows Server and Active Directory environments
- In-depth understanding of SMTP, IMAP, POP3, load balancers, split-brain DNS, and SSL/TLS certificates
- Experience with Layer 4-7 hardware load balancers, firewalls, complex mail-routing rules, and split-brain DNS zones
- Experience provisioning and managing VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments
- Advanced PowerShell scripting for mailbox operations, configuration audits, and log analysis
- Tier-3 troubleshooting of mail delivery failures, transport delays, and database corruption recovery
- Enterprise storage experience with SAN, NAS, and iSCSI
- VMware VCP certification
- Microsoft MCSE/Messaging certification
What We Do
VAM Systems is a Business Consulting, Technology Solutions and Professional Services organization working with major organizations in USA, UAE, Bahrain, India, Singapore and Australia. Delivers leading edge information and communication technology based business solutions to enable our clients to continuously stay ahead and achieve sustainable profit and consistent growth by leveraging new channels of customer engagement and service delivery as well as better and efficient employment of resources and processes with measurable parameters for performance. While our local presence assists us in better understanding of the local needs, our global presence assist us to offer solutions strengthened by experience in leading markets globally.
