Looking for 2 fulltime enterprise experienced Windows Senior sysadmins/engineers
 

Hi All,

One engineer will be experienced in Windows Security and that will be
the main focus.

The second engineer will be AD, policies, EMC SANS, MS clustering focused.

75% of the time (even 100%) this job will be project work, remianing
supporting level 2 as needed. Lots of servers to be rebuilt this year,
server consolidation, new clustering....AD review and sort out.

This is a large site with 150 servers and 5000 odd users, lots of
upgrades, should be interesting work.

If interested please email me at msjob@thing.dyndns.org with a brief
CV/letter outlining your capabilities, immediate start possible.....

regards

Thing

Re: Looking for 2 fulltime enterprise experienced Windows Senior sys admins/engineers
 

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:30:07 +1200, someone purporting to be thingy didst
scrawl:

*SNIP*
> This is a large site with 150 servers and 5000 odd users, lots of
> upgrades, should be interesting work.
>
*SNIP*

And it's based... where?
--
Matthew Poole
"Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer."

Re: Looking for 2 fulltime enterprise experienced Windows Senior sys admins/engineers
 

In article <pan.2006.03.30.05.06.16.536398@stops.here>, Matthew Poole <spam@stops.here> wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:30:07 +1200, someone purporting to be thingy didst
>scrawl:
>
>*SNIP*
>> This is a large site with 150 servers and 5000 odd users, lots of
>> upgrades, should be interesting work.
>>
>*SNIP*
>
>And it's based... where?

Auckland ? They are the only ones that feel they don't need to say :)


Bruce

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Re: Looking for 2 fulltime enterprise experienced Windows Senior sys admins/engineers
 

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:06:16 +1200, Matthew Poole wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:30:07 +1200, someone purporting to be thingy didst
> scrawl:
>
> *SNIP*
>> This is a large site with 150 servers and 5000 odd users, lots of
>> upgrades, should be interesting work.
>>
> *SNIP*
>
> And it's based... where?

India :-)

Re: Looking for 2 fulltime enterprise experienced Windows Senior sys admins/engineers
 

Matthew Poole wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:30:07 +1200, someone purporting to be thingy didst
> scrawl:
>
> *SNIP*
>> This is a large site with 150 servers and 5000 odd users, lots of
>> upgrades, should be interesting work.
>>
> *SNIP*
>
> And it's based... where?

Heh
From things headers

Message-ID:
<ff3sf3-89r.ln1@news.vuw.ac.nz>
NNTP-Posting-Host: vuwunicosmtp004.vuw.ac.nz
X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: vuwunicosmtp004.vuw.ac.nz

(I thought everyone knew where thing worked:-)
So Im going to take a punt and say wellywood

Re: Looking for 2 fulltime enterprise experienced Windows Senior sys admins/engineers
 

thingy wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> One engineer will be experienced in Windows Security and that will be
> the main focus.
>
The words 'windows' and 'security' are mutually exclusive.

Re: Looking for 2 fulltime enterprise experienced Windows Seniorsys admins/engineers
 

thingy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> One engineer will be experienced in Windows Security and that will be
> the main focus.
>
> The second engineer will be AD, policies, EMC SANS, MS clustering focused.
>
> 75% of the time (even 100%) this job will be project work, remianing
> supporting level 2 as needed. Lots of servers to be rebuilt this year,
> server consolidation, new clustering....AD review and sort out.
>
> This is a large site with 150 servers and 5000 odd users, lots of
> upgrades, should be interesting work.
>
> If interested please email me at msjob@thing.dyndns.org with a brief
> CV/letter outlining your capabilities, immediate start possible.....
>
> regards
>
> Thing

Duh, Wellington.

regards

Thing

Re: Looking for 2 fulltime enterprise experienced Windows Seniorsys admins/engineers
 

Peter wrote:
> thingy wrote:
>
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>One engineer will be experienced in Windows Security and that will be
>>the main focus.
>>
>
> The words 'windows' and 'security' are mutually exclusive.
>

Now Now...

The simple answer is Windows can be made acceptably secure by following
good practice.

ie this is like MS saying oOo is 10 years behind the latest MS Office
(it is not btw) so rubbish. What I will agree with is in a similar way
to MS's security, oOo wont satisfy everyone (read paranoid), but it is
good enough for most.

The biggest problem for Windows security is the lack of capability of
the people who look after the box. By this I dont mean Windows sys
admins are crap, what I mean is most of the botnets are residential
computers who's owners lack the capability to tie down the OS
adequately. In fact you could add me into that I suspect, ie while I can
lock Unix and Linux boxes down really tightly, I couldnt do the equiv on
a MS OS.

regards

Thing

Re: Looking for 2 fulltime enterprise experienced Windows Seniorsysadmins/engineers
 

thingy@nowhere.commy wrote:

> The simple answer is Windows can be made acceptably secure by following
> good practice.

I was going to ask how much leeway the engineer would have when
rebuilding the servers :-)

I mean, there's even an incremental upgrade path...first make it dual
boot Linux, then boot into it, then remove Windows :-))

Re: Looking for 2 fulltime enterprise experienced Windows Seniorsysadmins/engineers
 

Stu Fleming wrote:
> thingy@nowhere.commy wrote:
>
>> The simple answer is Windows can be made acceptably secure by
>> following good practice.
>
>
> I was going to ask how much leeway the engineer would have when
> rebuilding the servers :-)
>
> I mean, there's even an incremental upgrade path...first make it dual
> boot Linux, then boot into it, then remove Windows :-))


lol...the old "win98 or better" argument...

;]

We run about 150 servers, none of the windows ones have has serious
issues in 2 years, well 2 or 3 have got viruses somehow.....but apart
from that pretty good really....

The Linux ones have had none, but that is 35 servers V 110 Windows ones.

What I have noticed is the Windows ones seem to need rebuilding on a
regular though un-expected basis....registry lets go and ik dont even
dare re-booting it....

regards

Thing