System Administrator/Scripting Engineer

PlanIT Group, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 48,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services company is seeking a System Administrator/Scripting Engineer to support federal clients in the Washington, DC area. This role focuses on managing applications in a Windows environment, automating tasks using PowerShell, and ensuring compliance with security standards. Ideal candidates will have experience in Azure cloud services and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, with a potential transition to a DevOps role.

Qualifications

• Intermediate PowerShell skills and base-level of backend development experience.
• Experience (2 years min) with Azure cloud services and container orchestration using Docker/Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Open-Source tools for test automation such as Selenium.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain PowerShell scripts for automation and system management.
• Monitor application health, troubleshoot issues, and apply patches as needed.
• Ensure compliance with security policies for application patching.

Skills

PowerShell

Windows Server

Active Directory

Azure cloud services

Docker

Kubernetes

SSO

ADFS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MS SQL Server

Ansible

Terraform

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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.)

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting and Civil Engineering

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