Brahma Consulting Group Looking for Sr. Consultant / Solution Architect – AD/Exchange/Microsoft Office 365 at Hyderabad, Telangana Full Time

experience 10 to 15 years

Sr. Consultant / Solution Architect – AD/Exchange/Microsoft Office 365

JOB DESIGNATION: Sr. Consultant/Solution Architect

JOB DESCRIPTION:
With the release of Windows Server/Exchange Server 2019, many customers are looking to upgrade their older Active Directory and Exchange Infrastructures to the newer stack – either on Office 365 or on premises Exchange. We need a consultant who has excellent deployment and troubleshooting knowledge on AD and Exchange and working experience with Office 365 – in terms of migrations and Hybrid setups. This consultant will be a senior member of the team.

EXPERIENCES OF THE APPLICANT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Should have 10 – 15 years of overall IT industry experience

Must have Architecture experience in Designing, Implementing, Configuring, Testing, Migrating & Securing Exchange (on-premises/online) & Exchange Hybrid solutions

6+ years of deployment experiences in Active Directory 2012/2016 and Exchange 2007/2013/2016/2019

Deployment experience of least 5~7 projects of Office 365 from on premises or GSuite/Zimbra/IMAP mail migration to Office 365

Must have Architectural Proficiency with M365 Hybrid Designs

Should have worked with a Microsoft Gold/Platinum Partner organization who specialize or have good skills on Office 365 range of products

CRITICAL RESPONSIBILITIES: The critical responsibilities that we would like the consultant to shoulder are:

Will need to understand the customer’s technical issues, create a deployment Scope of Work and task breakdowns, work with the project manager to devise a project plan and work with the customer to convince them on the plan made

Will need to work independently as far as possible, with little supervision and support from the Senior team members, only on sporadic basis as required

Will need to be able to create clear documentation on the implementations performed with screenshots and item descriptions where relevant

Should be flexible to travel on short notice for projects up to 3 weeks at a time, within India

The consultant will need to participate in technical reviews with the team and report issues early to the HOD early enough to avoid any escalations

CRITICAL SKILL SET REQUIRED:
The ideal Consultant that we need in our team should be experienced in the following areas:

Upgrading AD 2003/2008/2012 to AD 2016/2019 across single Forest/Single Domain and Multi Forest/Multi Domain scenarios

Familiarity and experience using Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) for cross Forest user/object migrations

Should have experience with AD consolidation (merging of Forests) with troubleshooting experience of the issues that can crop up with these

Experience with AD redundancy configuration and FSMO role management

Upgrade experience of Exchange 2007/2013 to Exchange 2016/2019

Multi domain email configuration experience

Experience implementation and troubleshooting Exchange DAG (Database availability Groups) across single and multiple DAGs

Configuration of DNS records such as TXT, MX, CNAME, SPF and SRV records

Creating tenants of different types in Office 365

Managing On-Premises AD synch to Azure Directory with User Name and Password Sync. Troubleshooting experiences in this area will be a plus

Enabling client connectivity to Office 365

Managing Administrator roles in Office 365 with permission models, billing and password policies

Planning and implementing Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)

Managing antimalware and anti-spam policies with Quarantines, Spam confidence levels and notifications

Different Mailbox migration methods should be familiar

CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Windows Server 2012 Active Directory or Windows Server 2016 Managing Identities

70-345 – Designing and deploying Exchange Server 2016

Any Certification on Office 365 will be a definite advantage

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

A science Graduate with any reputed university with English as the medium of instruction