MECM Windows Systems Admin
Company: Leidos
Location: Chevy Chase
Posted on: April 17, 2024
Job Description:
Description At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through
the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to
our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our
communities, and operate sustainable practices. Everything we do is
built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our
people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide
the way we do business. Employees enjoy career enrichment
opportunities available through mobility and development and
experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and
talented colleagues and customers. Your most important work is
ahead. If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can
thrive, keep reading!Leidos is looking to fill an MECM Windows
Systems Administrator position to support the National Media
Exploitation Center (NMEC). This role requires an individual with
technical expertise administering Windows servers within a physical
and virtual environment. This role is responsible for interacting
with administrators to handle service inquiries and problems.
Duties include examining incidents and problems and implementing
appropriate corrective action to initiate a repair or return to
service. This role analyzes recurring problems and initiates
solutions for preventing reoccurrence and analyzes existing
infrastructure for tuning/performance enhancements Individuals in
this role may be required to perform technical software
configuration, rebooting, and other remedial actions on customer
servers.The work location is in Bethesda at the Intelligence
Community Campus.Primary Responsibilities
- Review C&A documentation providing feedback on completeness
and compliance of its content
- Perform system installation, configuration maintenance, account
maintenance, signature maintenance, patch management, and
troubleshooting of operational IA and CND systems
- Operates with appreciable latitude in developing methodology
and presenting solutions to problems.
- Contributes to deliverables and performance metrics where
applicable.
- Responsible for technical planning, system
hardware-software-network design, development and integration,
verification and validation, and fielding.
- Provide technical support, administration, and monitoring of
Microsoft Windows systems within a physical and virtual
environment.
- Decommission server(s) upon request through approved
engineering change solution.
- Install and/or remove service application and scripting
components
- Maintain server hardware and software assets in compliance with
supporting third party vendor and lease requirements.
- Implement capacity planning and tuning actions for server
assets
- Provide support for the implementation, troubleshooting and
maintenance of IT systems. Rapidly distinguish isolated user
problems from enterprise-wide application and system problems.
- Support operations, maintenance and troubleshooting for end
user workstations, to include desktop applications.
- Lead effort to collect data, conduct analysis, develop, and
implement solutions associated with incident tickets and
requirements.
- Seek opportunities for continuous improvement to support
effective and efficient operations
- Develop and document solutions to complex technical
issues.
- Provide follow-up reports (technical findings, feedback, and
resolution steps taken) for Root Cause Analysis and process
improvement initiatives.
- Support customer requirements in a 24/7/365 environment and be
able to provide on-call support during outages occurring after
hours; may involve shift work.
- Update operations and monitoring documentation for 24/7/365
Operations Watch personnel.
- Responsible for the security and management of Windows servers
in multiple production environments
- Solve complex integration and technical Windows and Hyper-V
problems in a dynamic fast-paced environment
- Perform automation tasks through scripting and testingBasic
Qualifications
- Requires a bachelor's degree and 4+ years of relevant
experience, additional years of experience may be considered in
lieu of a degree
- Experience supervising or mentoring others
- System security engineering expertise in one or more of the
following: system security design process; engineering life cycle;
information domain; cross domain solutions; commercial
off-the-shelf and government off-the-shelf cryptography;
identification; authentication; and authorization; system
integration; risk management; intrusion detection; contingency
planning; incident handling; configuration control; change
management; auditing; certification and accreditation process;
principles of IA (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation,
availability, and access control); and security testing
- Possesses and applies expertise on multiple complex work
assignments. Assignments may be broad in nature requiring
originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish
tasks.
- Background in Windows server setup, deployment and
maintenance
- Experience with hardening Windows environments
- Significant experience with system administration of server
operating systems such as Microsoft Server (2012 R2/2016/2019)
- Proficient experience with one or more of the following: MECM,
SCCM, Active Directory, Exchange, Virtualization
- Experience with integrating windows environments with
monitoring solutions such as Microsoft SCOM and Splunk.
- Familiarity with supporting virtual desktops running Microsoft
Windows
- Extensive Experience with Scripting/Automation through
PowerShell or other scripting languages
- Experience troubleshooting issues in a growing environment
- Extensive Experience with log reviews, incident analysis, and
identification of issue trends
- Experience with server patch management methodologies, such as
SCCM or MECM
- Experience with installing, configuring, and managing active
directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, and other Microsoft COTS products
- Time management skills with the ability to work within an IT
Service Management/ticketing system independently
- Ability to triage and properly classify incidents and
prioritize work efforts accordingly
- Strong oral and written communications skills
- Experience establishing goals and plans that meet project
objectives.
- Track record of working effectively within a team, and support
to peers toward improved processes and results
- Perform systems requirements analysis, functional analysis,
timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and
interface definition, technical management, integration, system
testing, and quality assurance.
- Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to
technical problems.
- Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II
certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security,
GSEC, or SSCP along with an appropriate computing environment (CE)
certification)Clearance
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required OR active
TS/SCI and willingness to get a Poly.
- US Citizenship is required due to the nature of the government
contracts we support.Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of AWS or Azure cloud services and the cloud
ecosystem.
- Experience operating and maintaining systems in a Linux
environment
- Certification relating to Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert
(MCSE) Certification or MCSA (Microsoft Certified System
Administrator)
- Experience with SAN or network storage setup and
administration
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Familiarity with Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) concepts
and solutions
- Experience with troubleshooting within a security
environment
- Experience with backup and restore proceduresOriginal Posting
Date:2024-02-14While subject to change based on business needs,
Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain
open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no
earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed
above.Pay Range:Pay Range $68,900.00 - $124,550.00The Leidos pay
range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a
guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered
in extending an offer include (but are not limited to)
responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge,
skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with
market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other
law.
Keywords: Leidos, Alexandria , MECM Windows Systems Admin, Other , Chevy Chase, Virginia
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