Job Description

Detailed Job Information:
Overview:
We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer experienced in Microsoft enterprise technologies. High level points about the position:
• Primarily engaged with on-prem enterprise datacenters and enterprise endpoints, with hybrid cloud growing
• Involved with most aspects of the IT lifecycle – plans, designs, engineers, implements, operates, and optimizes
• Provides engineering support for large enterprise Windows environment 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 high available Windows clusters supporting SQL Servers databases and web applications
• Supports, develops and deploys 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?” Quick points about the position:
1. Full time, W2 position (not "gig" or 1099 contractor)
2. Contract length is more than 1 year (recurring contract, no expectations of discontinuation)
3. Description of environment:
  1. Physically small/mid-size environment (<=10,000, not 10s of thousands)
  2. Highly technology dense (many use cases driving a multitude of vendors, topology types, etc)
  3. Sufficient technical challenges (even for experienced, senior-level technologists)
  4. 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
  5. The customer and our company strongly support the team – understanding the need to balance work, life, family                    situations, etc.
  6. 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
4. Source of job satisfaction:
  1. Sufficient work
  2. Challenging use cases
  3. Solid customer leadership that strikes a good balance, supporting mission and the team
  4. Many worthwhile coworkers who recognize fellow contributors
  5. Support for customers who range widely in prominence
5. Travel and commute
  1. Predominantly a fixed location – infrequent travel to other locations
  2. This is expected to be ~25-50% remote work
6. 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:
• 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)
• Employee discount
• Flex savings account
• Life insurance
• Business leadership is technical and communicative
• Entire business is focused on long term relationships with team members and customers
• Company receives highly positive feedback from internal team, partners (other companies) and customers

“Do I qualify for this position?” Candidate requirements for the current positions (must have all):
1. U.S. citizenship
2. Active TS clearance, granted or last refreshed within the last 5 years (access to SCI ultimately required)
3. Willingness to commute to end client

Experience and Skills
a. CompTIA Security +/CCNA Security or other certification covering the DoD 8570 (needed before being on-site, not necessarily before hire)
b. 5+ years of design, development, and integration of hardware and software to support large scale Windows environments with virtualization
c. 7+ years of Windows Server engineering and administration on recent OSs (Server 2012+)
d. 5+ years of troubleshooting: multi-forest environments, ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services), communications flows with network security appliances in-path, between servers.
e. 1+ years of administering common core services (DHCP, RADIUS, DNS, Group Policy)
f. 1+ years of administering MS SQL server
g. 1+ years of administering MS IIS or other web frontends
h. Practical experience with PowerShell with an interest in developing solid proficiency (if not already present)
i. Practical experience with ADCS (Active Directory Certificate Services)
j. Practical understanding of firewalls and Access Control Lists (ACLs)

1. Candidate Attributes/Values:
a. Looking for long-term work, not a “gig”
b. Self-starting, once acclimated to an environment
c. Highly responsible
d. Communicative with good communications skills
i. With an ability to communicate with technical staff, management or customers
e. Adaptive and interested in learning new technologies
f. 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
o Existing SCI eligibility
• Technology
o Linux experience
o SAN (Storage Area Network) experience – boot from, mounting storage, etc
o Networking
▪ Familiarity with routing and switching
▪ Familiarity with wired and wireless networking
▪ Familiarity with datacenter networking
▪ Familiarity with Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, etc interfaces
o Firewalls
▪ Palo Alto / Cisco / Juniper / PFSense / etc
o Recent NMS (Network Management System) experience - (Solarwinds, Prime, System Center)
o Recent experience implementing authentication with CAC/PIVs and VSCs
o AppV (Application Virtualization) and/or System Center app deployment
o Programming
▪ Familiarity with additional languages and/or computer science training
• Other
o Experience in DoD environments
o Basic drafting or engineering design
o Familiarity with an implementation framework (Agile, ITIL, etc)
o Certs
▪ MCSE or similar certification
▪ Cisco Associate (or higher) level certs in routing/switching and/or collaboration