Microsoft Systems Engineer, Los Angeles, California, United States

Microsoft Systems Engineer

Tracking Code 213721-025

Job Description

ICANN has an exciting new opportunity for a Microsoft Systems Engineer. The Microsoft Systems Engineer performs systems design, systems administration, database administration, and automation scripting for Microsoft systems and server technologies and performs escalated technical support for servers and systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide Active Directory 2008/2012 design, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Provide Sharepoint 2010/2013 administration and troubleshooting
• Provide MSSQL 2008/2012 database and replication design with respect to scale, performance, and availability
• Perform scripting for task automation and provide documentation for any such scripts
• Provide backup/secondary administration for Linux based systems when necessary
• Monitor and maintain continuity with system software licensing and maintenance agreements
• Excellent written and verbal communications for greater efficacy in documentation and support case handling

Essential Job Functions:

• Responsible for the installation, configuration, documentation, and maintenance of any assigned server systems
• Maintain file systems, storage volumes, disks and coordination of volume space planning and management
• Maintain growth statistics, resource capacity forecasts, backups, software inventories, and hardware inventories
• Provide technical support on all systems-related issues and troubleshoots complex systems problems
• Responsible for the completion of assigned complex or long-term information systems projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines

ICANN is an unusual global organization. It is based on a multi-stakeholder concept that brings interested voices around the world into the bottom-up policy-making process for the Internet's domain name system. You can find more about us at

• http://www.icann.org.

There is no typical ICANN employee.

• Our staff has a wide range of backgrounds and working styles, with many working remotely, and we have offices in Europe, Asia and the United States.
• We are expanding and changing rapidly with plans to open offices in Geneva before our fiscal year end.
• Most ICANN employees own their own projects, work closely with executive management and enjoy a rich benefits plan.
• Come work with the people who are shaping the future of the Internet!

Required Skills

• Windows 2008/2012 server and Active Directory expertise required
• Knowledge of the IPv4/IPv6 network addressing and Domain Naming System required
• Knowledge of systems administration best practices required
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written)
• Ability to work with highly diverse workforce
• Able to work independently (self motivated)
• Required Experience
• Minimum 8 years related Microsoft systems and server technology experience
• BS degree in Information Systems or related field preferred
• Microsoft SQL administration, tuning, and replication experience required
• Microsoft Sharepoint 2010/2013 administration and tuning experience required
• Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010/2013 administration experience preferred
• Some Linux/Unix systems administration experience preferred

ICANN is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, age or other protected characteristics and complies with all applicable laws and regulations.

Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. ICANN offers a competitive benefits package, including a retirement savings plan and also employer-paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance.

All resumes should accompany a well written cover letter (first impressions are everything). Tell us why you are the best person for the job. Only those with comparable skills will be contacted. No phone calls or email please.

About ICANN: ICANN's mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers. ICANN doesn't control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn't deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information please visit: http://www.icann.org.