What are the responsibilities and job description for the WINDOWS ENGINEER position at Johnson Technology Systems Inc?
Role Title: WINDOWS ENGINEER
Job Location: - Radford, VA
Project: - US ARMY
Clearance: - ***Active Secret Clearance Required***
Position Requirements:
WINDOWS Engineer: This position is for a Windows Engineer to support the PD ALTESS Engineering Team. PD ALTESS is a managed service provider for Army and DoD IT systems and runs an on-premises private cloud and plans to offer managed cloud services in Microsoft Azure followed closely by Amazon Web Services.
JOB DUTIES:-
- Build new cloud based data center services environments for DoD cloud initiatives.
- Assist with identifying and planning potential new cloud services, features, and capabilities.
- Serve as overall subject matter expert on Windows technology and market capabilities/trends.
- Architect systems for new customers onboarding at ALTESS.
- Manage objects stored in Active Directory as delegated by Active Directory administrators
- Perform Active Directory user account, and member server management tasks in assigned OUs
- Troubleshoot and resolve operating system, application, and networking issues in a complex and highly-regulated multi-region multi-cloud environment.
- Collaborate with internal and external parties to transform high-level technical objectives into comprehensive technical requirements.
- Formulate detailed network, storage, and compute design specifications for stable and secure computing operations in a dynamic cloud based environment.
- Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a wide variety of network, storage, and compute technologies.
Required skills:-
- A total of at least 5-7 years of experience with Windows systems.
- DOD Interim Secret as a minimum
- Mid to senior level Windows Administrator experience
- Security (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. MCSA, etc.)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects
- Experience automating routine administrative tasks desired
- Understanding of network, storage, server, and application technologies
- Strong knowledge of automation concepts, tools, and scripting languages (PowerShell, DSC, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.).
- Working knowledge of DoD STIGs, and IA Vulnerability Management (IAVM) - preferred
Required Certifications:
- CompTIA Security
- Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e., MCSE, Server , etc.) – can be waived for 30 days after project join date.