MUST HAVE (hands-on, personally owned) 5+ years as a Systems Administrator or Systems Engineer in a multi-server enterprise environment Hyper-V administration: hosts, failover clustering, VM builds, live migration, and patching hosts without taking VMs down. VMware-only experience does not qualify. Windows Server: builds, patching, and upgrades Active Directory and Group Policy, plus Entra ID Enterprise storage (SAN): has provisioned volumes or LUNs, not only consumed storage another team gave them Backup and recovery: names the backup tool, and has personally performed and tested restores Microsoft 365 administration: licensing, Exchange Online, Entra ID, and security NOT A FIT Help desk, desktop support, or junior administrators Cloud-only or Microsoft 365-only profiles Network-only profiles Architect-level candidates. The client wants practical, hands-on engineers. Anyone who needs remote work, sponsorship, or more than the conversion range INTERVIEW STANDARD The client interviews onsite with a technical panel. Candidates may be asked to draw a server deployment on a whiteboard and explain the full infrastructure behind it, step by step, and the business reason for each decision they made. Anything listed on the resume can be questioned in detail. The client is rejecting candidates who list tools or experience they cannot explain, so please remove anything the candidate cannot discuss in detail before submitting. Copies of certifications must be included in the submission if it is listed on the resume. Include the following details in the candidate brief submittal summary: The largest environment they personally supported (users, sites, servers, Hyper-V hosts, VMs), and what did they own versus the team? Their experience with Hyper-V cluster, including storage, networking, and backups. Experience provisioning storage on SAN. Experience with restores they performed and the backup tool they used.