System Administrator/Scripting Engineer

PLANIT Group; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a System Administrator/Scripting Engineer in Washington, DC to manage application installation and configuration in a Windows environment. The ideal candidate will utilize PowerShell for automation, manage security compliance, and support Azure cloud deployments. This position may transition into a DevOps role, requiring technical expertise in cloud services and container technologies.

Qualifications

• Intermediate PowerShell skills required.
• 2 years min experience with Azure cloud services and container orchestration.
• US Citizen with clearance eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain PowerShell scripts for automation.
• Ensure compliance with security policies for application patching.
• Monitor application health and troubleshoot issues.

Skills

PowerShell scripting

Windows Server

Active Directory

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Azure cloud services

Containerization technologies

Job description

Washington, DC Contract On-Site Flexibility/Remote: 80%

PlanIT Group is seeking a System Administrator/Scripting Engineer to support our Federal customer in the Washington, DC area. The ideal candidate will have expertise in command line scripting (PowerShell), Windows Server, Active Directory, SSO (Single Sign-On), ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services). While this role does not involve direct server administration, experience managing Windows Server and Active Directory is essential. Experience with Azure cloud services and containerization technologies (Docker/Kubernetes) is also required. This position will eventually transition to a DevOps engineer role and as such the experience to support that role is listed under the preferred skills section below.

Job Title: System Administrator/Scripting Engineer
Location: Washington, DC hybrid
Duration:One year plus annual extensions


System Administrator/Scripting Engineer


Position Summary:
Our Federal customer program is seeking a skilled Systems Administrator/Scripting Engineer to manage the installation, configuration, monitoring, and patching of applications in a Windows environment. The initial objective of this position is to ensure that all applications software packages are sufficiently patched to remove any vulnerabilities to the environment. In addition, and equally important, is to utilize PowerShell scripting to automate patch management and verification, manage and maintain scheduled tasks, extract logs, validate configurations, and streamline compliance reporting and Active Directory management tasks.


The ideal candidate will have expertise in command line scripting (PowerShell), Windows Server, Active Directory, SSO (Single Sign-On), ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services). While this role does not involve direct server administration, experience managing Windows Server and Active Directory is essential. Experience with Azure cloud services and containerization technologies (Docker/Kubernetes) is also required.
This position will eventually transition to a DevOps engineer role and as such the experience to support that role is listed under the preferred skills section below.


Key Responsibilities Specific to this assignment (Experience of the below is required):

• Develop and maintain PowerShell scripts for automation and system management.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and best practices for application patching and configuration.
• Install, configure, and maintain enterprise applications in a Windows-based environment.
• Monitor application health, troubleshoot issues, and apply patches/upgrades as needed.
• Implement and support Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions using ADFS and other authentication mechanisms.
• Work closely with Windows Administrators and Active Directory teams to ensure seamless application integration.
• Collaborate with DevOps and IT teams to monitor application performance and uptime.
• Deploy and manage applications in Azure cloud environments
• Support containerized application deployments using Docker and Kubernetes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Intermediate PowerShell skills and base-level of backend development experience.
• Experience in the technical aspects of DevOps techniques, continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous deployment.
• Experience managing Windows Server and Active Directory
• Experience (2 years min) with Azure cloud services and container orchestration using either or both of the following tools: Docker Compose or Kubernetes (K8s).
• Experience with SSO (Single Sign-On), ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services), PowerShell scripting, and MS SQL Server

• Familiarity with Open-Source tools for test automation such as Selenium.
• Must be able to work onsite at least 1X per week at the client site in Washington DC and as needed to support critical events which may take place over weekends.
• Must be a US Citizen with proven identification
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance (fingerprint ID and clean criminal background check)

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least five years of hands-on experience supporting DevOps to reengineer and automate the software development process (CI/CD).
• Experience working in a large software development program using Agile development methodology.
• Basic Python skills and base-level of backend development experience
• Experience implementing DevOps for a Cloud-based system on a modernization program.
• Experience with Container Management Platforms such as OpenShift.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, Puppet and Terraform.
• Experience with Continuous Monitoring tools such as E L/F K Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash/Fluentd, Kibana).

Additional Provisions:
• Must be able to obtain a Position of Public Trust Clearance
• Pass both a client mandated clearance process to include drug screening, criminal history check and credit check.
• All candidates must be a US Citizen only
• Candidate must have lived in the United States for the past 5 years.
• Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last five years. Military Service excluded. (Exception does not include military family members.)