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You are encouraged to have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide more specific pay details for this role.TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.\nAs a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.\nJob Description:\nThe Senior Windows Server Automation Engineer combines deep enterprise Windows Server engineering expertise with substantial hands-on experience independently designing, developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining production automation code using Ansible and/or Python.\nKey areas of responsibility include Group Policy, Active Directory, Windows Server security baselines, and end-to-end server lifecycle management, including OS deployment across physical and virtual environments, initial server configuration, compliance, performance optimization, and ongoing management. 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Experience should include frameworks, roles, playbooks, modules, integrations, or tooling and demonstrate strong engineering practices such as source control, modular and idempotent design, testing, logging, error handling, secrets management, code review, release management, and CI/CD.\nServer Lifecycle Management: Proven experience automating OS deployment across physical and virtual environments, including initial server configuration, domain integration, security hardening, compliance validation, and ongoing management.\nWindows Server Engineering: 8+ years of hands-on experience engineering and supporting large, complex enterprise Windows Server environments across physical, virtual, and hybrid platforms.\nGroup Policy, Active Directory, and Security Baselines: Advanced experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and managing enterprise Group Policy, including inheritance, precedence, security and WMI filtering, delegation, controlled rollout, and policy conflict resolution. Working knowledge of Active Directory concepts relevant to Windows Server administration is required, including OUs, domain membership, authentication, service accounts, and delegation, together with experience designing, automating, validating, and maintaining Windows Server security baselines.\nNetworking: Working knowledge of TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, subnetting, routing, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, load balancers, ports, and protocols, with the ability to diagnose Windows Server connectivity, name-resolution, latency, packet-loss, and access issues.\nPerformance Optimization: Experience baselining, analyzing, and tuning Windows Server CPU, memory, storage I/O, network, services, processes, and virtualization performance using tools such as PerfMon, Resource Monitor, and Windows Performance Recorder/Analyzer.\nCore Windows Infrastructure: Strong knowledge of Kerberos, certificates, failover clustering, server hardware, patching, and vulnerability remediation.\nSenior-Level Ownership: Demonstrated ability to lead complex designs and production issues independently, make sound technical decisions, provide Level 3 escalation support, and deliver durable solutions across multiple teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.\nRelevant Microsoft, Red Hat Ansible, or Python certification.\nExperience with VMware, Hyper-V, cloud platforms, and regulated enterprise environments.\nWho We Are:\nTD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.\nOur Total Rewards Package\nOur Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. 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