Associate - MS Exchange System Administrator - New York City

Role Summary

Internal Technology Platform - Messaging Engineering

Duties and Accountabilities

Markit is seeking a Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007 engineer with strong Exchange and Windows server systems administration skills to join our global Windows Systems Administration team. Primary responsibilities for this position include design and implementation of Exchange solutions, provide production support to Exchange systems globally, managing and testing Exchange disaster recovery, and documenting internal messaging infrastructure.

Other responsibilities for this position include:

Selection of new Exchange server and SAN hardware
Managing and providing production support for systems associated with Markit’s corporate messaging environment such as Symantec Enterprise Vault, SMTP connectors, Postini
Providing 2nd & 3rd line support for MS Exchange and MS Domain-related issues
Exchange performance tuning

Business Competencies

Successful candidates will have at least 6 years strong Windows Server 2000 / 2003 experience with a prior role focused on Messaging and Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007.
Vendor accreditations including MCSE with a specialty on Exchange MCP’s and exposure to HP EVA SAN or equivalent, VMware ESX and Microsoft Clustering highly desirable.
Understanding and experience of financial services industry advantageous.

Personal Competencies

Well organized and able to plan projects over long-term. Highly motivated with great drive to succeed with tasks and results driven. Excellent troubleshooting skills. Great team working skills as well as being able to take a project on individually and see it through to completion.
Excellent communication skills both technically presenting plans to team and external high-level communication with business stakeholders.

The Contact

Interested applicants should send their CV and a covering letter to careers.na@markit.com citing "Associate, MS Exchange System Administrator " in the subject line.