Please Note: The start date for this position has shifted to Q1 2024
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-Written by technical staff working in the environment
-The company hiring manager is a senior-level technologist with direct experience in the environment
-Long-term thinking at the company drives focus on the best all-around match for the customer, team member and company
======================== Overview:
Systems Engineer experienced in Microsoft enterprise technologies, interested in a broad range of technologies, and always up to learn more. High-level points about the position:
-Primarily engages on-prem enterprise data centers and enterprise endpoints
-Involved with most of the IT lifecycle – plans, designs, engineers, implements, operates, and optimizes
-Provides engineering support for large enterprise Windows environments with both physical and virtual deployments
-Heavily involved with Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, web services, database services, mission-critical apps, etc
-Requires mental adaptability to new use cases, technologies, etc
-Requires a strong mind with solid analytical, troubleshooting, and communications skills.
-Designs, develops and deploys Windows servers primarily hosted in a virtualized environment.
-Supports and develops highly available Windows clusters supporting SQL Servers, databases and web applications
-Supports and develops deployment PowerShell scripts for various remediations and repetitive functions
-Creates technical design/implementation/test/DR plans
-Assists procurement team by providing technical input to purchasing
-Assists and mentors junior members on the team, as needed
-Monitors and supports the availability of all the systems under the team's management
-Supports technical security objectives ========================
“Would I want this position?”
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Quick points about the position:
-Full-time, W2 position
-Contract length is more than one year Description of environment:
-Physically small/mid-size environment (1s of thousands of users, not 10s)
-Highly technology dense (many use cases driving a multitude of vendors, topology types, etc.)
-Sufficient technical challenges (even for experienced, senior-level technologists)
-Network and Systems teams tend to be involved in nearly every IT project and deal with most of the IT lifecycle – this builds and maintains broad skillsets
-The customer and our company strongly support the team – understanding the need to balance work, life, family situations, etc.
-High average OPTEMPO. With the addition of technologies and the promotion/retirement of other team members, the current team has a lot on its shoulders – hence this job opening. The target is to meet the OPTEMPO in a way that prevents individual overwhelm while also preventing stagnation and/or monotony Source of job satisfaction:
-Sufficient work
-Challenging use cases
-Solid customer leadership that strikes a good balance, supporting the mission and the team
-Many worthwhile coworkers who recognize fellow contributors
-Support for customers who range widely in prominence Travel and commute:
-Predominantly a fixed location – infrequent travel to other locations
-Commute: 3 days on-site, two days off-site as the norm. Schedule:
-Typical work day with flexibility for start times
-Must be flexible to support mission as needed (e.g. - outage Windows, etc)
-On-call rotation: once to twice per month ========================
Positive high-level points about the company:
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-Successful IT small business with solid benefits
-Health, Dental, and Vision
-PTO
-Training
-Opportunities to be recognized for your expertise, efforts, and client value
-401(k) with matching
-Flex savings account
-Life insurance
-Business leadership is technical and communicative
-Entire business is focused on long-term relationships with team members and customers
-Our Company receives highly positive feedback from the internal team, partners (other companies), and customers ========================
“Do I qualify for this position?”
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Candidate requirements for the current positions (must have all):
-U.S. citizenship
-Active TS clearance, granted or last refreshed within the last 5 years (access to SCI ultimately required)
-Willingness to commute to Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB) Experience and Skills:
-CompTIA Security /CCNA Security or other certification covering the DoD 8570 IAT II requirement (needed before being on-site, not necessarily before hire)
-5 years of design, development, and integration of hardware and software to support large-scale Windows environments with virtualization
-7 years of Windows Server engineering and administration on recent OSs (Server 2012 )
-3 years of troubleshooting: multi-forest environments, ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services), communications flow with network security appliances in-path, between servers.
-1 years of administering common core services (DHCP, RADIUS, DNS, Group Policy)
-1 years of administering MS SQL server and/or web frontends (IIS, etc.)
-Practical experience with PowerShell with interest in developing solid proficiency (if not already present)
-Practical experience with ADCS (Active Directory Certificate Services)
-Practical understanding of firewalls and Access Control Lists (ACLs) Candidate Attributes/Values:
-Looking for long-term work, not a “gig”
-Self-starting, once acclimated to an environment
-Highly responsible
-Communicative with good communications skills
-With an ability to communicate with technical staff, management or customers
-Adaptive and interested in learning new technologies
-Ability to work under pressure (e.g., working through unplanned outages) ========================
Additionally, Desired Experience and Skills
--------------------------------------- The following list includes skillsets that would help the team beyond the core competencies needed for the position and offers insight into some of the additional skills one could expect to grow in this position: Clearance:
-Existing SCI eligibility Technology:
-Linux experience
-SAN (Storage Area Network) experience – boot from, mounting storage, etc Networking:
-Familiarity with routing and switching
-Familiarity with wired and wireless networking
-Familiarity with data center networking
-Familiarity with Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, etc. interfaces Firewalls:
-Palo Alto / Cisco / Juniper / PFSense
-Recent NMS (Network Management System) experience - (Solarwinds, Prime, System Center)
-Recent experience implementing authentication with CAC/PIVs and VSCs
-AppV (Application Virtualization) and/or System Center app deployment Programming:
-Familiarity with additional languages and/or computer science training Other:
-Experience in DoD environments
-Basic drafting or engineering design
-Familiarity with an implementation framework (Agile, ITIL, etc.)
-Certs
-MCSE or similar certification
-Cisco Associate (or higher) level certs in routing/switching and/or collaboration