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IT Systems Administrator – Office 365, Azure and Windows Server Platforms

IT Systems Administrator – Office 365, Azure and Windows Server Platforms

THE POSITION

Miniclip is looking for a Systems Administrator with a high focus on Office 365 infrastructure to hire in our Lisbon (Portugal) Games Development Studio.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience with some of the new technologies along with working from the very beginning on new projects and new services.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

As a systems administrator we expect you to perform daily enterprise-wide server administration tasks and provide tier 3 support for enterprise systems and services on our Office 365 infrastructure and Microsoft Windows Server platform, including but not limited to Active Directory, Azure, Office 365 and Exchange Online in all our offices locally or on our cloud/hosted environments.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Administration and support for Office 365, Azure and Windows Server platforms.
• Apply preventive maintenance procedures for all infrastructure.
• Review and improve as well as create new policies with a high focus on security for all infrastructure.
• Monitor and maintain all integrated systems inside O365 and implement where possible SSO enabled platforms and applications.
• Perform installations, configurations, migrations on all cloud-based platforms and systems as well as on Servers, workstations and mobile devices.
• Run periodic audits to cloud-based and on-premise platforms to ensure industry’s best practices are being followed.
• Proactively search for improvements and propose new solutions for existing and new systems.
• Monitor and maintain operating systems and additional server components including but not limited to Domain Controllers, DHCP, Radius, DNS on our Active Directory.
• Apply patches to major subsystems and services, roles, and filesystem components within a Windows Systems environment and perform operating system and patch testing on all changes prior to installation.
• Execute PowerShell or Command Shell commands.
• Monitor and review system logs and detect and troubleshoot problems.
• Write technical documentation.
• Control system access and security aspects of critical systems, cloud-based and on-premises.
• Establish and maintain suitable resource and performance monitoring on all systems.
• Demonstrate in day-to-day work adherence to security best practices and Technology Services access control and security policies.
• Provide technical support and customer service directly to customers.
• Understand the applicable processes and procedures of the organization and make recommendations in the continual improvement of those processes and procedures, providing for management analysis and recommendations on continual improvement.
• Work non-traditional hours and respond to on-call requests to provide 24 x 7 service availability.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

We’re looking for a skilled communicator with good technical background that will demonstrate good social skills in a professional environment. The Systems Administrator needs to be someone that enjoys working in a team with other people and is passionate and dedicated about his/her work.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of three years of management within Office 365 and Azure cloud-based infrastructure.
• Minimum of three years of relevant Windows Server experience.
• Experience in troubleshooting technical problems involving software and operating systems.
• Experience in effective communication and collaborating in a high-performance team environment.
• Experience providing technical support in a customer service role.
• Experience using patience, sensitivity, and effective communication with a wide range of people, including the technically proficient and those with minimal computing experience or technical skill.
• Experience writing technical documentation for a technical audience.
• Experience in participating in diverse workgroups.

The ideal candidate will be strongly skilled in the following:

• Management of Office 365 and Azure cloud-based infrastructure.
• Hardware/software RAID and logical volume management.
• Knowledge of industry standards and best practices.
• Understanding of network topology and distributed system concepts.
• Understand system access control and security aspects of critical systems.
• Knowledge of Active Directory architecture and concepts.
• Knowledge of Voice-over-IP concepts.
• Knowledge of email and collaboration concepts using O365.
• Write and speak English fluently.

The following skills are desirable but not essential:

• Ability to travel to remote locations if required.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

You will be working in our fashionable, open plan studio in Lisbon with enthusiasts and professionals from the games industry. We like to maintain a very friendly and relaxed atmosphere, with regular team building and social events. We understand that being tied to a desk all day is not fun and that’s why there is a games area and fridge with complimentary drinks and fruit for all staff

ABOUT MINICLIP

Miniclip is a global leader in digital games with a mission of unleashing the gamer in everyone. The Company develops, publishes and distributes highly engaging games to an audience of over 200 million monthly active users across mobile, social and online platforms.

Founded in 2001, the Company has successfully grown a huge global audience in over 195 countries and across six continents. Miniclip has a unique understanding of the digital games space and has developed a strong portfolio of over 60 high-quality mobile games, extensive worldwide distribution, and an internationally recognised brand name. To date, Miniclip franchises including 8 Ball Pool™, Golf Battle™, Football Strike™ and Agar.io™ have generated more than 2 billion downloads. As of April 2020, Miniclip has more than 60 million daily active players reaching people across the world in the pursuit of ‘unleashing the gamer in everyone’.

In February 2015, Miniclip was excited to receive a large majority investment from Tencent, one of the world’s largest technology companies and the world’s largest games publisher. This new chapter in Miniclip’s history strengthens the Company’s position, with Tencent recognising its achievements to date and future potential.

In the past two years, as part of their ambitious growth plans, Miniclip have been delighted to welcome the teams from Playsport (famous for Motorsport Manager), Yakuto (creators of Darts of Fury), and Masomo (home of Head Ball 2), Ilyon (designers of Bubble Shooter), and Eight Pixels Square (Sniper Strike) to the Miniclip Group.

For more information, visit http://corporate.miniclip.com