Description

Must Haves:

  • Active Directory administration (build and replication)
  • Windows server administration
  • VMware virtualization
  • PowerShell

 

Job Scope/Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience administering Windows Server environments
  • Expert knowledge of Active Directory and Group Policy (replication, domain controller, DNS, DHCP, etc.)
  • Experience with VMware virtualization platforms (snapshots, patching, sysprep, etc.)
  • Scripting skills using PowerShell
  • Understanding of information security best practices and patch management
  • Strong communication, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
  • Experience working independently and collaborating remotely as part of a team
  • Working with systems (DMZ, firewall rules, DMZ needing to join the domain)

 

What is your motivation for the opportunity?

  • Can you cover the company profiles and position details? 
  • What are the top 3 technologies you enjoy working on and have strong skills in?
  • How would you go about pushing down Group Policy to servers?
  • What options are there for excluding some servers from a Group Policy?
  • How do you troubleshoot Active Directory replication issues?
  • What happens when there are connectivity issues with RBCs?
  • Can you walk through your DHCP management process?
  • How would you set up firewall rules for a server in a DMZ needing to join the domain?
  • What is your experience with virtualization technologies like vSphere?
  • How do you customize settings when building a new template?
  • What happens to the operating system and VM cycle when initiating a snapshot? 
  • How do you address performance impact from snapshots?
  • How would you work with change control and deployment testing?
  • How do you secure access and manage privileged accounts?
  • Say you had a workstation is not getting an IP what are your troubleshooting steps there?
  • Have you had to work with systems that were in DMZ, firewall rules?
  • Have you created VMWare snapshot?
  • What is the sysprep for?
  • Have built images? Built out templates?

 

Candidate are having trouble answering the following:

  • When asked about building domains from scratch or creating trusts, the candidate said they had not personally done this before, only acquired companies with existing trusts.
  • For troubleshooting distributed switches, the candidate said they had not been involved at the infrastructure level.
  • Regarding firewall rules, the candidate said they typically request rules from the network team rather than setting them up directly.
  • The candidate was not familiar off the top of their head with Active Directory replication utilities commands but knew they existed and could research them.

 


 

Key Skills
Education

Any Gradute

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