Windows Administration Specialist - SRE Team

Synechron; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron is seeking a Windows Administration Specialist within its SRE Team to fortify Windows-based platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. You will champion automation, patch management, and security hardening to keep services reliable and scalable.

You will collaborate with diverse product and engineering teams, implement observability best practices, and drive continuous improvement in Windows operations, patch posture, and incident response.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server administration (2016/2019/2022).
• Proven experience managing Windows Server patching at scale in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Ivanti patch management or similar enterprise patching platforms.
• Solid understanding of patch compliance, vulnerability remediation, and maintenance window strategies.
• Proficiency in PowerShell scripting for automation and operational tooling.
• Experience managing Windows workloads in AWS (EC2, AMIs, Systems Manager, patch baselines).

Responsibilities

• Enlighten, enable, and empower multidisciplinary teams by providing Windows platform expertise.
• Design, build, and maintain highly available and secure Windows Server environments in on-premises and AWS.
• Own and execute Windows patch management lifecycle, including assessment, scheduling, deployment, validation, and reporting.
• Operate and optimize Ivanti patching solutions to ensure timely remediation and compliance.
• Automate Windows provisioning, configuration, patching, and compliance using PowerShell and IaC approaches.
• Identify, prioritize, and resolve performance, stability, and security issues across Windows workloads.
• Establish observability best practices for Windows systems and incident response.

Skills

Windows Server admin

PowerShell scripting

Ivanti patch management

Patch management at scale

AWS Windows workloads

CI/CD for Windows

Observability basics

Tools

Ivanti

WSUS

SCCM/MECM

Terraform

CloudFormation

DSC

Ansible

Jenkins

Buildkite

Job description

Windows Administration Specialist - SRE Team

We are responsible for ensuring our platform remains stable, scalable, and resilient. The SRE team bridges the gap between development and operations - breaking down silos, empowering developers, and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

Within this mission, the Windows Administration Specialist plays a critical role in maintaining the health, security, and automation of our Windows-based platforms and services.

We build creative, automated, and robust solutions to operational challenges, working as generalists who partner with product and engineering teams from the earliest design stages through to production reliability and optimization.

We see the big picture - defining standards, enabling consistency, and cultivating an agile, learning-oriented culture. We follow SRE principles such as blameless postmortems, operational load limits, and continuous feedback loops to ensure system reliability and team well-being.

Above all, we're passionate about automation, observability, and constant learning - thriving in an environment where no two days are the same.

As a Windows Administration Specialist, you will:

• Enlighten, enable, and empower multidisciplinary teams by providing deep Windows platform expertise across multiple environments.
• Design, build, and maintain highly available and secure Windows Server environments in both on-premises and AWS ecosystems.
• Own and execute Windows patch management lifecycle , including assessment, scheduling, deployment, validation, and reporting.
• Operate and optimize Ivanti (or equivalent) patching solutions to ensure timely vulnerability remediation and compliance.
• Automate Windows provisioning, configuration, patching, and compliance using PowerShell and infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Identify, prioritize, and resolve performance, stability, and security issues across Windows workloads.
• Establish observability best practices for Windows systems, including event monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Partner with SREs, platform engineers, and application teams to improve reliability of Windows-hosted services.
• Improve CI/CD integration for Windows-based applications, build agents, and supporting services.
• Drive continuous improvement in Windows hardening, patch posture, and vulnerability management.
• Champion operational excellence by documenting standards, mentoring peers, and promoting automation-first thinking.

Here's What You Need:

• Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server administration (2016/2019/2022).
• Proven experience managing Windows Server patching at scale in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Ivanti patch management (highly desirable) or similar enterprise patching platforms (WSUS, SCCM/MECM, etc.).
• Solid understanding of patch compliance, vulnerability remediation, and maintenance window strategies .
• Proficiency in PowerShell scripting for automation and operational tooling.
• Experience managing Windows workloads in AWS (EC2, AMIs, Systems Manager, patch baselines).
• Familiarity with configuration management and IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, DSC, Ansible).
• Experience integrating Windows workloads into CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite, Jenkins, or similar).
• Working knowledge of observability and logging platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, or Sumo Logic.
• Understanding of Windows security hardening and compliance frameworks .
• Strong Linux fundamentals are a plus.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow or similar ITSM tools is advantageous.

S YNECHRON'S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative 'Same Difference' is committed to fostering an inclusive culture - promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all.

We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company.

We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply.

We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant's gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law .