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
Terms and conditions
Joining time frame: (15 - 30 days)
Skills Required
- Minimum 5+ years of dedicated professional experience managing Windows Server and Active Directory environments in an enterprise setting
- Experience engineering bare-metal and clustered Microsoft Exchange Server 2016, 2019, or Subscription Edition environments
- Hands-on administration of production VMware vSphere and Hyper-V environments
- Knowledge of SMTP routing, DNS infrastructure, MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and on-premises mail gateway security
- Strong PowerShell programming and automation capabilities
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.
