Systems Administrator, Windows

Position Description

Our client is seeking a Windows System Administrator to work with a focused and fun team to engineer, build, deploy, and maintain multiple environments for the purpose of development, testing, and production hosting of custom enterprise business applications on behalf of a government customer. You will be providing onsite and remote support of Tier 1 -3 engineering support requests. Infrastructures consist of various Desktops, Servers, Storage, Networks, and Virtual technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Windows Administrator working with a focused and fun team to engineer, build, deploy, and maintain multiple environments for the purpose of development, testing, and production hosting of custom enterprise business applications on behalf of a Government customer.
• Contribute to application and database migration activities.
• Develop scripts for automation of build-out, maintenance, and configuration of virtualized systems.
• Deployment of updates, IAVA patches, and Anti-Virus updates.
• Troubleshoots and resolves hardware, software, and communications problems.
• Maintains web application hosting systems to include web servers, database servers, and associated development systems (e.g. Team Foundation Server)
• Maintains system reliability and uptime of production applications by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Contributes to system configuration management in accordance with contract inventory and customer requirements.
• Create, update, and maintain technical documentation including process diagrams, standard operating procedures, and system documentation.
• Coordination with customer ISSE to ensure security accreditation of all project IT systems. This includes writing documentation and plans to successfully navigate ICD 503 and customer's unique security requirements.
• Hours 7am - 3pm

Minimum Qualifications:

• TS/SCI security clearance eligible
• CI polygraph eligible
• Security+ Certification (IAT level 2 or higher)

Required Skills:

• Database Administration
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) (C2S) systems administration.
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft Windows Server
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
• Excellent Time Management, Ability to manage multiple priority tasks and self-motivated task identification

Preferred:

• AWS Certification (AWS Solutions Architect - Associate or AWS SysOps
• Deploying AWS features (Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancer, CloudWatch, Lambda, Elastic Container Service).
• Understanding of Linux operating systems (e.g. Red Hat, Centos, Ubuntu, Fedora, Scientific Linux, Debian, Amazon L2 etc.).
• Experience with scripting tools (PowerShell, JSON, BASH and PYTHON).
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server
• ICD 503 familiarity