Senior Systems Engineer: Windows & Azure Cloud Ops

ECS; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to work in our Washington, DC office, focusing on day-to-day operations, maintenance, and monitoring of the agency's on-prem and cloud server infrastructure. You will establish monitoring requirements and alerting, coordinate weekend maintenance, and ensure change records are approved.

You will also develop mitigation strategies with IT Security, manage domain services, and document procedures for installation, security, disaster recovery, and

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge administering Windows Server in physical and virtual environments.
• Experience with Azure, VMware, AD environments and enterprise-grade server infrastructures.
• Willingness to work off-hours and weekends for maintenance, upgrades, installations, etc.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for day-to-day operations, maintenance, and monitoring of on-prem and cloud server infrastructure.
• Establish monitoring requirements for servers and applications; develop and deploy alerting strategies.
• Coordinate maintenance activities including testing and scheduling, ensuring change records are approved.
• Assess performance, recommend program improvements, and ensure goals/objectives are met.
• Develop mitigation strategies for vulnerabilities; coordinate with IT Security for reviews and changes.
• Upgrade and manage domain services; coordinate system upgrades, backups, and hardware refreshes.
• Submit and track change requests for hardware/software upgrades and patches.
• Develop technical architecture and documentation for installation, maintenance, security, configuration, and disaster recovery.
• Respond to events with corrective actions for security or user-experience impacts.
• Research complex infrastructure issues to identify solutions; address new needs with enterprise upgrades.
• Proactively monitor system logs, services, scripts, and applications across servers and storage.

Skills

Windows Server

Azure

VMware

Active Directory

PowerShell

Azure Entra ID

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

Microsoft certifications

Tools

MECM

SCOM

VMware

Job description

ECS is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to work in our Washington, DC office, focusing on day-to-day operations, maintenance, and monitoring of the agency's on-prem and cloud server infrastructure. You will establish monitoring requirements and alerting, coordinate weekend maintenance, and ensure change records are approved.

You will also develop mitigation strategies with IT Security, manage domain services, and document procedures for installation, security, disaster recovery, and