# Windows Systems Administrator **Company**: Leidos **Location**: Fort Meade, MD **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00 **Category**: IT **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Fort-Meade-MD/Windows-System-Administrator_R-00196100?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9269232e-f3f ## Description We are seeking a skilled Windows Systems Administrator to support a Department of Defense customer onsite in Fort Meade, Maryland. The successful candidate will be responsible for administering, maintaining, securing, and ensuring the reliability of mission-critical Windows Server infrastructure and enterprise services. **Primary Responsibilities:** - Independently administer, patch, secure, and troubleshoot Windows Server 2019, 2022, 2025, and other supported versions in enterprise production environments. - Manage Active Directory (AD DS), Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and related authentication and authorization services. - Support Windows Server VMs in Microsoft Azure and Nutanix, including provisioning, configuration, and troubleshooting with cloud and virtualization teams. - Monitor server health, performance, capacity, and logs to proactively resolve issues, and perform root-cause analysis on recurring or significant incidents. - Apply security updates, remediate vulnerabilities, implement DISA STIGs, and partner with cybersecurity on POA&Ms, compliance assessments, and incident response. - Plan and execute server builds, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning under established change management processes, and manage assigned incidents, requests, and changes through resolution. - Develop PowerShell scripts to automate administration, inventory, reporting, and configuration tasks, and maintain server inventories, SOPs, and recovery documentation. - Support backup and recovery activities, and collaborate with network, storage, cloud, and application teams to solve complex issues and drive modernization. - Mentor and peer-review the work of junior administrators. - Participate in maintenance windows, after-hours support, and on-call rotations as required. **Requirements:** - Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline with at least four years of relevant systems administration experience. - Demonstrated hands-on experience administering, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Server 2019, 2022, or newer supported versions in medium-to-large enterprise environments. - Strong working knowledge of Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, NTFS and share permissions, service accounts, and Windows authentication. - Experience administering and supporting Windows Server virtual machines in enterprise virtualized or cloud-hosted environments. - Experience performing Windows Server patching, security configuration, vulnerability remediation, and operating system hardening. - Working knowledge of DISA STIG requirements, cybersecurity compliance processes, and security configuration baselines. - Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot complex Windows Server issues involving operating system services, authentication, storage, networking, performance, and application dependencies. - Practical experience using PowerShell for systems administration, troubleshooting, and scripting or automation of recurring tasks. - Experience performing server builds, configuration changes, upgrades, migrations, and operational maintenance activities in production environments. - Understanding of ITIL-aligned incident, problem, service request, and change management processes. - Ability to independently manage assigned technical tasks, analyze complex problems, and develop effective solutions while coordinating with other infrastructure teams as necessary. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document technical activities and collaborate with customers, cybersecurity personnel, and cross-functional technical teams. - Ability to meet applicable DoD 8140 cybersecurity workforce qualification requirements within the timeframe established by the customer and contract. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Active DoD Secret clearance; Security+ CE (or other DoD 8140-accepted certification) and a relevant Microsoft certification (Windows Server, Azure, or hybrid infrastructure). - Advanced Active Directory experience, including domain controllers, replication, trusts, Group Policy troubleshooting, and privileged access management. - Production experience with Windows Server 2025, including VMs in Azure and Nutanix. Nutanix Certified Associate is a plus. - Experience with Failover Clustering, IIS, WSUS, MECM/SCCM, or comparable patching and management platforms, plus enterprise backup, recovery, and disaster recovery testing. - Experience with SCAP scanning tools and DISA STIG Viewer, PowerShell or Ansible automation, and supporting DoW or federal environments with formal compliance and change management requirements. - Experience mentoring junior administrators and developing technical documentation and operational procedures. **Salary Range:** $73,450.00 - $132,775.00 ## Skills ### Required - Windows Server - Active Directory - PowerShell - Microsoft Azure - Nutanix - DISA STIGs - cybersecurity compliance - ITIL ### Nice to have - Windows Server 2025 - Azure - Nutanix Certified Associate - Failover Clustering - IIS - WSUS - MECM/SCCM - SCAP scanning tools - DISA STIG Viewer - Ansible automation --- Source: [Apply at leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Fort-Meade-MD/Windows-System-Administrator_R-00196100?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)