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:

1. CompTIA Security
2. Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e., MCSE, Server , etc.) – can be waived for 30 days after project join date.