Microsoft Platform Engineer

**Job#: 2025175**

**Job Description:**

**Title: Microsoft Platform Engineer

Location: Columbus, Ohio (Hybrid)

Pay Range: $74/hr- $78/hr

Contract Length: 3 months

Job Description:**

The Infrastructure Monitoring team has an established enterprise practice and is looking for an experienced engineer.

The team is responsible for enterprise infrastructure monitoring.

Selected candidate will help:

- Design, build and manage enterprise monitoring solutions from various vendors

- Design, build and manage tool integrations with ServiceNow and other tools.

- Write, document, and maintain Python scripts to perform API calls and other essential tasks.

- Work directly with platform engineers, infrastructure owners, architecture, and management to understand requirements and develop solutions to meet those requirements

**Must Have:**

- 5 years experience in installing, configuring and supporting monitoring solutions on an enterprise scale

- Strong understanding of large-scale applications, network architectures, micro-service architecture, monitoring and fault management

- Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills

- Experience with Zenoss, Solarwinds, Openview, or other enterprise monitoring solutions

- Python programming experience

- Demonstrated ability to work remotely.

- Excellent communication skills

**Nice to Have:**

- Experience managing Microsoft platforms (WMI and/or WinRM, Active Directory, Exchange, Lync, IIS, SQL Server)

- Experience managing Hypervisors (ESX, Hyper-V, Xen)

- Experience profiling Web services and transactions (REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, JSON, etc)

- Administration, configuration, and tuning of Web Servers, App Servers, Database Servers, and Appliance Servers (Load Balancers, SSO, DataPower, etc)

- Strong multitasking skills

- Proficiency in networking technologies, configurations, and concepts

- Previous Financial Services experience or knowledge

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*Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.*

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