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Engineering - Systems
South Burlington, VT (On-Site/Office)
ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Systems Engineer, Active Directory in South Burlington, VT; Camp Springs, MD; or in a location to be determined upon offer acceptance.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Clearance Requirements:
Physical Requirements:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Design new of infrastructure servers, OU structures, and permissions
- Perform Implementation and automation tasks with USCIS Active Directory Environment
- Build, modify, and implement Group Policies for Servers and Workstations
- Perform backup of existing USCIS Active Directory environments and develop new solutions to take advantage of new technologies and best practices provided by the latest versions of Windows Server.
- Collaborate with Operations when backing up USCIS Active Directory infrastructure for changes, modifications, and advancements, for a seamless transition and delivery.
- Backup Active Directory production environment. Conduct periodic disaster recovery planning exercises as needed.
- Assist with migration tasks as scheduled throughout USCIS offices; provide technical assistance to lower tiered administrators as needed/required.
- Collaborate with local facility administrators and teams regarding server hardware installations, upgrades, and migrations of essential AD services and rollout projects.
- Work with software vendors to identify, install, and deploy USCIS business need software solutions, involving AD LDAP authentication and delegation rights.
- Troubleshoot and resolve hardware, software, and network issues with operating systems, as required.
- Provide support for Azure Cloud infrastructure
- Backup on premise and cloud solutions to ensure, where applicable, interdependent systems have consistent backups evaluated for business value, and removal of waste.
- Act as a technical liaison between USCIS OIT customers and third-party software/hardware vendors to deliver necessary solutions for the agency.
- Participate in the entire lifecycle (planning, deployment, maintenance) of critical IT services.
- Backup Azure Entra Connect and Office 365 Suite.
- Support VEEAM Administration to provide full backup and recovery for all virtual Field Servers.
- Build and support of FlexPod, and FlexPod Blades
- Creation of FlexPod storage
- Management of UCS for FlexPod configuration
- Deliver systems integration using a progressive phase-gate transition to swiftly integrate infrastructure changes with enhanced service offerings and improved reliability.
- Focus on the DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI) model, to realize improved benefits inside network security and reliability
- Provide confidence and situational awareness to further the implementation of existing architectural frameworks already in development
- Build DevSecOps into every stage of the design
- Develop, implement, and provide enhanced security capabilities through DDI to minimize DDoS, malware, data exfiltration, and other DNS based security risks.
- Ensure DDI design to include automated discovery, load balancing, and MS management.
- Provide Secure DNS support for USCIS cloud environments.
- Perform Application Programing Interface (API) integration.
- Implement DNS forwarding Proxy, most critical in USCIS cloud environments.
- Integrate with network devices and platforms to assist with inventory discovery.
- Support multi-vendor, multi-platform capability.
- Deliver services that are compatible with both virtual, physical appliances, and cloud environments.
- Automate the mapping subnets to Active Directory sites and services.
- Manage multi-tenancy environments, allow for management of millions of IP addresses and multiple tenants in a single deployment.
- Provide and manage high availability architecture to minimize downtime.
- Customize audit and reporting capabilities in a way that is repeatable, transparent, clean, and useful.
- Build a customizable, single-pane view with real-time information display.
- Automate deployments utilizing orchestration capabilities.
- Ensure monitoring and alerting is fine-tuned and provide meaningful data.
- Develop extendable and open architecture to ensure rapid integration with initiatives such as private/hybrid clouds, virtualization, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), mobility device integration and IoT.
- Engineer IP address management (IPAM) for planning, tracking, and managing the IP addresses used in the USCIS network.
- Develop the framework for IPv6 to enable USCIS to move in this direction.
Develop training materials written for a multi leveled talented IT staff.
Develop an implementation and migration strategy. - Use Agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence and MS Teams to provide transparency and allow information to be visible in real time and to create a unified backlog ensuring visibility into all areas of work and identifying inter-dependencies between teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience working with Active Directory and Group Policy
- Experience troubleshooting Server issues.
- Experience troubleshooting Active Directory and Group Policy issues.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills required
- Strong critical thinking, complex problem solving, appropriate judgment, and decision-making skills
- Possess superior technical aptitude and effective written and verbal communications skills.
- Proven experience with managing and using DevOps concepts.
- Capable of supporting the following tools:
Active Directory
GPMC
AD Sites and Services
NewRelic
SolarWinds
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree- preferred
- Familiar with tools including: ServiceNow, GitHub, Jira, Confluence
- Experience with ITIL, DevSecOps and Agile concepts
- Experience supporting Government contracts
- Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification or proven equivalent experience.
- Azure Certified or equivalent experience
Clearance Requirements:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain Public Trust and complete DHS Security Clearance
- Ability to obtain DHS EOD suitability
- Current DHS EOD highly preferred
Physical Requirements:
- Office work, typically sedentary with some movement around the office.
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