Position Summary: 

This professional position is responsible for advanced installation, configuration, and management of Windows operating systems and related toolsets, supporting complex enterprise-level applications, and providing technical leadership within the IT department. This support is provided in accordance with corporate and company policy and industry best practices. The position also provides on-call support on a rotational basis with other team members.  Outstanding communication skills working in a team environment is crucial to the success of the team, the customer, and the candidate.

The qualified candidate will perform a variety of difficult assignments associated with Windows System administration, including monitoring and controlling of Windows installations, analyzing system faults, troubleshooting issues, and running diagnostic tests on operating systems and hardware to detect and resolve problems. Strong interpersonal skills, self motivation, and keen attention to detail are important. Particular knowledge of Server virtualization, Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, SCCM, SCOM and MOSS required.  Candidate will be able to demonstrate admin skills for the above stated technologies.

Essential Duties: 

The following duties are not meant to be all inclusive and may be changed or modified by the company at any time.

• Assist with the installation, configuration and management of the Windows infrastructure in both a physical and Virtual environment.
  
• Analyze system performance, modifying parameters to improve throughput and effectively utilize system resources.
  
• Monitors resource usage, making required adjustments.
  
• With administrative direction and assistance from management and the architecture team:
  
  
  
  • Lead the evaluation and selection of tools.
    
  • Set up product demos and objectively evaluate tools.
    
  • Coordinate the collection of feedback from other evaluators.
    
  • Summarizes the input and make cost conscience tool recommendations.
    
    
    
    • May be responsible for the effective deployment of tools in the group.
    
    
  • Set up training classes and may function as a tool administrator, working with the vendor, internally coordinating product upgrades and fixes.
  
  
• Participate in on-call production support activities based upon documented support procedures.
  
• Create and maintain documentation and procedures.

• Responsible for developing the organization by mentoring junior members and developing how to guides under the direction of the department manager.
  
• Pro-actively seek out on the job training from senior resources to increase both technical and professional skills
  
• Responsible for contributing to the development of the organization’s goals and objectives.
  
• Responsible for understanding and following corporate and department security policies and procedure along with standard operating procedures (SOP).

• Recommend improvements to facilitate better management and monitoring of the environment.
  
• Ability to effectively communicate across the organization
  
• Coordinate activities with vendors as required.
  
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education and Experience: 

• Equivalent of Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems or related field.
  
• 5+ years experience as a Windows Systems Administrator in a client/server environment.

Special Qualifications: 

• VMware Certification
  
• MCSE

Skills/Knowledge of: 

• Microsoft Windows 2003 & 2008 OS
  
• Active Directory
  
• VMWare, ESX, Lab Manager
  
• MS Exchange, MOSS, SCCM, SCOM

• A solid understanding of the operating system; understands paging and swapping, inter-process communications, devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions), can use performance analysis to tune systems.
  
• A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts.
  
  
  
  • Understands principles of routing, client/server programming, the design of consistent network-wide filesytem layouts.

• Familiarity with security and hardening of servers and obtaining authorization to operate.
  
• Documentation of Data Center configurations.
  
• Thorough understanding of the TCP/IP Suite (TCP, UDP, IP, ICMP, etc.) as well as the network management protocol, SNMP

Ability to: 

• Produce thorough and effective technical documentation.
  
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills; capable of writing proposals or papers, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to customers or client audiences or professional peers, and working closely with upper management.
  
• Ability to solve problems quickly and automate processes.
  
• Ability to obtain a DOD Security Clearance

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