Windows Systems Engineer, Military-Civilian Home, Arlington, VA

Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities:

The candidate will provide Windows Systems Engineer support for our client. The successful candidate’s core responsibilities will include, but not to be limited to:

• Supporting the operations of a production enterprise application running Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008 on multiple Windows servers.

• Performing Windows technical analysis and operational support.

• Operation and maintenance of the OS including application of patches and upgrades.

• Understanding Government policies and terminology in support of cybersecurity requirements.
• Security hardening for OS and web containers is required.

• Handling support desk tickets related to the operation system and application.

• Hardware / OS performance analysis and tuning, enhancements and corrective actions.

• Ensuring the ongoing process/system capability associated with projects and manages any changes required to meet or exceed the expectations established in project designs.

• Defining project scope and objectives and develop detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.

• Ensuring adherence to quality standards, review project deliverables, manage the integration of vendor tasks, and track and review vendor deliverables.

• Scripting development to automate processes and monitor system performance.

• Controlling consistency and integrity monitoring and health checks of the operating system and applications.

• Working with database administrators to ensure the integrity of the database environments. Assist database administrators with performance and capacity issues.

• Setting up administrator and service accounts.
• Providing backup and recovery.

• Maintaining system documentation and writing installation and operations documents.

• Effectively interacting with the customer.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related academic focus area with 5+ years of relevant experience. An equivalent combination of education, certification, and relevant experience may be considered.

• Experience working with DHA projects in all life cycles.

• Experience in the creation, deployment, and operation of IT systems.

• Expert knowledge in managing schedule, performance, and quality of the IT systems development life-cycle.

• Experience in managing the relationship with Government hosting environments.

• Experience managing projects in similar size and scope.
• Experience with IIS/Tomcat and .NET Framework.

• SQL experience in creating and updating scripts.

• Knowledge on the CCB process.

• Extensive knowledge of Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2/SP2.

• On call and after-hours maintenance support required.

• Some travel to US and overseas sites may be required.

• U.S. Citizenship is required. Candidate selected must be able to successfully pass an extensive client background investigation.

Please send resumes to [email protected] with the job title in the subject line.