United States of America: SharePoint Administrator (off-shore)

Required Skills:

The SharePoint administrator should possess a thorough knowledge of SharePoint architecture, infrastructure management, SharePoint security, service applications, feature management, and custom applications/site management.

Job Details:

This offshore position will be responsible for the enhancing/improving/patching, monitoring, trouble-shooting, and documenting any problems related to the SharePoint 2010/2013/online test, UAT, Productions and Failover environments and for transferring his/her knowledge to the UNICEF internal IT Operations specialists .

Duties and responsibilities:

· Support the performance tuning exercise following a review of the SharePoint and SQL configuration settings

· Support the disaster/recovery exercise

· Troubleshoot day to day operational problems

· Daily Monitoring Server Health for all environments

Checking Disk Usage, Logs, Event Viewer for Critical errors, and SQL Database health

· Daily Monitoring SharePoint / SQL Services

Monitoring services on Web Front End Servers ( Production/Failover)Monitoring services on Web Application Servers ( Production/Failover)Monitoring services on SQL Servers ( Production/Failover)

· Weekly Checking SharePoint health analyzer logs (weekly)

Check health reports, web analytics report, diagnostic logs, and administrative reports

· Disaster Recovery of SharePoint Production farm once in a month

Taking backup of the SharePoint Production farmPreparation of SharePoint environmentInstallation of SQL 2012 R2 ServerInstallation of SharePoint Application server/Web serversRestoration of SharePoint farm

· Installation and testing of SharePoint next releases , patches and cumulative updates on all SharePoint environments

The skills and experience required for this assignment are:

· University degree in computer science, engineering, information management or related field

· Four to seven years’ experience in SharePoint Services / Portal enterprise level administration, security, and maintenance. SharePoint 2010/2013/online experience is required.

· SharePoint administration experience includes installation, configuration, monitoring farm health and performance, managing quotas, monitoring usage logs, managing backup and restore/recovery, creating application pools, site collections, and sites, creating groups, assigning rights, testing and installing third party web parts, and PowerShell.

· Experience with .Net technologies

· Knowledge of Team Foundation Server and hands-on experience on deployment of application related changes in integration_test-UAT-production.

· IIS, SQL Server including SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, Windows Server 2008/2012, and Active Directory (including LDAP and user profile) expertise.

· In-depth experience with Windows Server technologies including Windows Server 2008/2012, IIS, and Virtualization

· Ability to work with a team as well as independently

· Broad experience with Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSLT), ASP.NET concepts, Security (Active Directory, ISA), Networking (DNS, HTTP, SSL), Email (SMTP), Database (T-SQL, PL/SQL, normalization), and Storage (SAN) concepts

· Ability to be self-starter and to work with minimum supervision

· Excellent communication skills, written and verbal

· Experience of a multi-cultural and gender sensitive work environment

· Strong interpersonal skills

Duration of the Consultancy: The initial period of the contract is 3 months and subject to need and budget will be extended to up to 11 months.

Pay Rate: $240 per day

Interested applicants are requested to submit their applications along with a cover letter and C.V. to isspost@unicef.org no later than 11 December 2014. Only short listed candidates will be contacted. Depending on the outcome of the selection process the contract will be awarded to an individual or a corporate.


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