# Windows Systems Administrator

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Herndon, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $187,000 - $253,000
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Transform technology into opportunity as a Windows Systems Administrator with GDIT. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At GDIT you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

**Responsibilities:**

- Proactively maintain and develop all Windows infrastructure technology to maintain a 24x7x365 uptime service

- Engineer systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs

- Maintain best practices for managing systems and services across all environments

- Perform fault-finding, analysis, and logging of information for reporting of performance exceptions

- Proactively monitor system performance and capacity planning

- Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, and hot fixes on servers and workstations

- Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks

- Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment

- Collaborate with other teams and team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar relevant degree, or equivalent experience

- 10+ years in Windows Systems Administration

- Strong background in Microsoft Systems Engineering and providing support to those systems

- Microsoft operating systems including Windows Server 2016 or later

- Active Directory (AD), specifically: Health of AD to include, but not limited to, AD Sites and Services/Replication; Group Policy Implementation to include registry changes; Permissions (security and/or file) related to user accounts, OUs and shares; DNS, DHCP; LDAP integration with non-Microsoft based applications

- Experience maintaining and managing Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM), specifically: Software package creation and distribution; Imaging Windows workstations and servers (virtual and physical); Patch management; Integration of Windows Defender with MECM

- Strong knowledge of virtualization Windows workstations/servers hosted within VMware

- Current experience in the Sponsor's classified and unclassified distributed work environment architectures and systems

- Management of stand-alone Microsoft Certificate Authority

- Immediate response may be required to restore or maintain system functionality (Tier 3 troubleshooting)

- Familiarity with Jira and Confluence

**Benefits:**

- 401K with company match

- Comprehensive health and wellness packages

- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Endpoint Manager
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Systems Engineering
- MCSE

### Nice to have
- PowerShell
- VMWare
- ESXi
- NetApp
- MFA implementations

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