Senior Systems Administrator — Remote, Cloud & AD Expert

Socket.dev

United States

Remote

USD 110,000 - 160,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Tier 3 Systems Administrator to join our federal IT support team, providing advanced enterprise administration and engineering across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments to ensure secure, scalable operations for critical services.

You will manage AD, Entra ID, SCOM, Quest tools, Exchange Online, eDiscovery, PKI integration, and DoD encryption standards; implement GPOs, domain trusts, and DR procedures; and monitor health with custom metrics while ensuring compliance

Qualifications

Experience managing Active Directory and Entra ID across on‑prem and cloud.
Experience with SCOM for monitoring and reporting.
Proficient with Quest tool suite for schema changes, GPOs, and trusts.
Exposure to Exchange Online, eDiscovery, and DoD encryption standards.

Responsibilities

Manage and sustain enterprise services such as Active Directory (AD), Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), and the Quest tool suite to ensure availability and scalability across the enterprise.
Implement schema extensions, manage Group Policy Objects (GPOs), domain trusts, and Organizational Unit (OU) configurations using Quest and other enterprise tools.
Provide advanced support and optimization for cloud environments, including MED365 Azure services, eDiscovery, and Exchange Online.
Ensure authentication, synchronization, user provisioning, and encryption compliance across both AD and cloud-based systems.
Monitor and manage data encryption services; deploy encryption clients and enforce compliance with enterprise and DoD encryption standards.
Customize enterprise monitoring rules and produce performance metrics related to uptime, downtime, and overall system health using tools like SCOM.
Develop and execute disaster recovery procedures and ensure compliance with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) for monitoring infrastructure.
Support PKI/PKE integration and compliance per DoDI 8520.02 requirements.
Manage Exchange Online services, including mail flow, distribution lists, shared mailboxes, migrations, and service availability.
Administer eDiscovery processes, including data collection, analysis, and responses to legal and regulatory requests; investigate incidents related to data leakage, phishing, and unauthorized data exposure.