Senior Exchange Administrator (2 needed)

Cycle3 IT Staffing is seeking a  (2) Senior Exchange Administrators. We are in need of one for a permanent opportunity and another for a long term consulting role.

 Positions Purpose:
Senior Exchange Administrator is to manage the operational and engineering aspects of a Microsoft Outlook/Exchange environment to include planning, coordination, and supervision.  Responsibilities will include engineering; administration, troubleshooting, and the ability automate and solve typical administration problems. The ability to navigate a dynamic, fast paced environment is required.  This position has high visibility in communicating with senior technology managers and directors.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Responsible for coordination of multiple Exchange Administration activities in a dynamic, fast paced environment.
• Ensure the day to day operational tasks that are necessary to provide a stable and robust Exchange and Active Directory environment are performed.
• Lead/direct as well as perform project steps and technical hands-on tasks within a team environment with employees, consultants and third party providers.
• Responsive to on-call requests, high severity issues and coordination with Microsoft Premier Support.
• Participate in the existing procedures of the environment- change management, incident management.
• Planning in both an architectural approach and detailed project plan steps.
• Experience with deployment for server build, configuration, test.
• Manage vendor and technology evaluation and selection processes to ensure cost effective and reliable services.
• Be accountable to build and maintain a global Exchange platform.
• Produce and update project related documentation – server build docs, technical details for change control.
• Lead efforts to monitor and ensure optimum performance in a messaging environment.

Technical Environment:

• Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 • Blackberry Server – v.4x to current
• Clustering, virtualized environment, Powershell & Active Directory
• Active Synch
• OWA, ISA server, SMTP concepts
• Exchange backups, monitoring concepts
• Exchange anti-virus and message security
• Email archiving applications (OpenText a plus)
• Storage requirements for Exchange (Storage calculator, SAN/Local)
• Physical and VM Server design / config for Exchange

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 7-10 years Messaging Engineer (Exchange), at least 3 years in a senior level role
• Should have 7-10 years or more experience in IT overall such as Desktop/Server support, Active Director support, administrative experience, etc.
• Experience should be from working in enterprise environments of approximately 3,000 seats/mailboxes or more, 10,000 seat+ experience preferred and should have experience in leading migrations and upgrades.

Proven ability to exercise independent judgment, effectively prioritize, and execute tasks while under pressure