Job Description

We are GDIT. The people supporting and securing some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work has meaning and impact on the world around us, but also on us, and that's important.

GDIT is your place. You make it your own by embracing autonomy, seizing opportunity, and being rusted to deliver your best every day.

We think. We act. We deliver. There is no challenge we can't turn into opportunity. And our work depends on a Senior Systems Engineer joining our team to support the USPS Office of Inspector General.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator.

In this role you will:
* Be responsible for the day-to-day operations, maintenance and monitoring of the agency's on-premises and cloud server infrastructure
* Establish monitoring requirements for servers and applications as well as develop and deploy alerting strategies
* Coordinate maintenance activities including testing and scheduling for maintenance weekends, including ensuring that all change records have been approved prior to maintenance events.
* Assure implementation by working with staff on the goals and objectives of agency-wide programs
* Implement established goals and objectives
* Evaluate systems performance and make recommendations for program improvement.
* Create risk mitigation strategies when vulnerabilities cannot be remedied and work with IT security to review and act on any directed changes
* Upgrade and managing all domain services and works with various system owner to coordinate systems upgrades, system backups as well at hardware refreshes.
* Develops change requests, and track through approvals to completion, for software upgrades and patches.
* Develop technical architecture documentation that details procedures for installation, maintenance, security, configuration, and disaster recovery.
* Respond to events and incidents with possible security architecture or negative user experience impacts; take necessary corrective actions promptly
* Plan, organize, and conduct research on complex infrastructure and client support issues that involve major areas of uncertainty in approach, methodology, or interpretation to identify appropriate solutions.
* Identify and resolve unique issues, recommend innovative solutions to address new needs and/or issues and recommend enterprise upgrades, changes, or enhancements.
* Guides the successful completion of major engineering programs and may function in a project leadership role
* Develops advanced solutions to highly complex engineering problems which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity
* Performs advanced systems design, development, and integration from the start of a systems life cycle to the end
* Provides and applies advanced engineering to highly complex infrastructures including installing, configuring, testing and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools
* Provides and applies advanced engineering skills to highly complex systems modeling, simulation, and analysis
* Performs continual maintenance and provides advanced solutions for continual and highly complex security, backup and redundancy problems
* Prepares and maintains all documentation for processes and procedures related to engineering projects
* Provides guidance to less-experienced Systems Engineers
* Maintains current knowledge of rapidly changing technology, always on the lookout for new technologies, and works with management to evolve current processes
* May coach and review the work of less-experienced professionals
* May serve as a team or task leader. (Not a people manager)
* Performs complex systems development and design work that may include logic design, I/O design, model formulation, computer architecture analysis and design, and digital systems engineering
* Invents innovative ways to drive production operational efficiency
* Drives scalability and operability of supported systems/infrastructure
* Implements, manages and enhances Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline tools
* Creates, maintains, and reviews Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Desired State Configuration (DSC) and/or Puppet configuration management tools to support the provisioning infrastructure
* Provides system/equipment/specialized training and technical guidance
* Microsoft certification

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a technical field such as Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related fields (desired)
* Primary Requirements (10+ years of experience in the following primary requirements):
* Extensive knowledge administering and managing Microsoft Windows Server operating systems in a physical and virtual environment (Azure and VMware).
* Must have the ability to independently rollout and manage server infrastructure projects, hosting enterprise applications across multi-server farms
* Extensive system monitoring, auditing, and alerting utilizing System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
* Administration experience with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
* Expert working knowledge of Active Directory, DNS and Group Policy to manage enterprise environment. Able to architect and deploy Active Directory DC design, Schema, OU design, AD replication topology, and DC backup/restore procedures
* Expert knowledge of Windows Security for server and policy configurations. (Example: DOD STIG, server hardening, vulnerability remediation, baseline security configurations)
* Experience with Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) and AD Connect
* Proficient knowledge and experience with Azure services: Azure administration portal, resource groups, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services and Azure backup
* Experience with Office 365 to include: Identity Management, licensing, group management and Exchange Online, etc.
* Experience with PowerShell and other scripting tools
* Perform proactive monitoring of system logs, services, scripts, and applications on servers' systems, storage arrays for internal and customer-facing applications
* Demonstrated problem solving skills and a consistent record of on-time delivery and customer service to include project planning, budgeting, scheduling, resource management, effective time management, documentation, and organization skills
* Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, to express and present ideas clearly and concisely
* Able to work off-hours and weekends as needed for maintenance, upgrades, installations, etc.

Please Note
The security clearance for this program requires the selected candidate to have resided in the US for the past five years. The selected candidate cannot have left the country for longer than 90 consecutive days and no more than 180 cumulative days.

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Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

T elecommuting Options:
Telecommuting 100%

Work Location:
USA VA Arlington

Additional Work Locations:
Any Location / Remote

We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.nnGDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

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