ECS is seeking a Systems Engineer - Active Directory to work in our Washington, DC office. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.

Job Description:

• Designing and developing initial prototypes/proofs of concept and validate them for technical design and performance.
• Participate in defining robust architectures for new systems, leveraging and enhancing existing building blocks or creating new reusable components.
• Being responsive and decisive on adjusting product architecture as customer requirements, market conditions and technology evolve.
• Identifying and articulating new technology, programming, design methodology, and best practices.
• On-going operations and maintenance support of existing systems.
• Designing and developing initial prototypes/proofs of concept and validate them for technical design and performance.
• Participate in defining robust architectures for new systems, leveraging and enhancing existing building blocks or creating new reusable components.
• Being responsive and decisive on adjusting product architecture as customer requirements, market conditions and technology evolve.
• Identifying and articulating new technology, programming, design methodology, and best practices.

Required Skills:

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience with monitoring performance and throughput, setting baselines for acceptable performances standards while teams develop new solutions.
• Experience working in public and private clouds.
• Ability and readiness to work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing, collaborative environment.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills required.
• Must have strong critical thinking, complex problem solving, appropriate judgment, and decision-making skills
• Experience with major cloud providers preferred.
• Possess superior technical aptitude and effective written and verbal communications skills.
• Proven experience with managing and using Dev Ops concepts.
• Certification: MCSE.
• Bachelor or Master degree with Computer Science or Engineering.

Desired Skills:

• Experience at DHS agency preferred.
• At least five (5) years of system administration experience.
• At least five (5) years of Active Directory and Exchange administration and or Linux and Red Hat.
• Experience managing a highly virtualized environment and must have experience managing backup and recovery products.
• Strong organization skills, including the ability to handle multiple ongoing projects.

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. ECS promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3800 employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.