Junior Systems Windows Administrator

Position:Junior Systems Windows Administrator

Location: Crystal City, Virginia and Washington, DC
 

Clearance: Secret with the ability to obtain federal Top Secret level security clearance
 

Duration: 12/31/2016 with possible extension
 
Visa: US Citizen

Experience:4+ years

Position Description: This position is for a Junior Windows System Administrator to support high availability production systems on a Federal services contract. The position will assist in technical engineering programs to implement and maintain operations support tools. The candidate will work closely with network, application, and middleware teams to support Windows based product installations, customizations, and deployments. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of Windows support including software updates and upgrades, backup and recovery, performance management and capacity planning for the Windows environment. Off-shift coverage will be required for on-call support of systems and maintenance work in supported change windows. Candidate must have experience in development of implementation guides based on NIST 800-53 moderate and high impact baselines.

Primary Job Duties

• Work on engineering projects to design, build and deploy Windows operations support tools.
• Daily operations of Window Servers supporting Operation tools such as MS Active Directory, DNS, SSO, and GPOs
• Develop automated/scripted procedures for commonly executed tasks.
• Develop, maintain, and support operational documentation

Required Skills

• Manage Microsoft Active Directory to include implementation of GPOs, support of file and print services, DNS, Domain Controller replication, and organizational unit management.
• Managing Windows systems, including Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Window Server 2012
• Building, configuring, and managing Microsoft Windows servers in multi tenant enterprise environments
• Experience with Enterprise Backup software (NetBackup, BackupExec)
• Harden Windows operating systems to STIG compliance
• Experience managing Active Directory architecture and replication in a multi domain environment
• Experience with Active Directory design
• Experience with large scale datacenter design and operations

2 - 3 years of experience with the following:

• Experience utilizing VB/Powershell to automate common functions
• Experience working with virtual infrastructure (i.e. VMWare) required
• Experience with NTP Quota File Sentinel and Quota File Reporter
• Experience supporting Citrix XenApp 6.5
• Experience implementing VDI solutions
• Experience with Doubletake system duplication software
• Experience migrating large infrastructures from physical to virtual environments
• Experience/awareness of SCCM methodologies
• Experience with web servers, databases, networks, cabling, new installations and migrations, and security scanning tools is required

Preferred Skills

• Gather requirements and help architect, plan and implement system solutions for a Windows platform to meet customer requirements
• The ability to write shell scripts and utility programs for Windows system maintenance is also a plus.
• Federal customer experience
• Must be able display excellent teamwork skills, written and oral communication skills, and formal documentation skills.

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