System Engineer (O365)

IGNW
Washington, DC
25 Nov 2024

Vacancy expired!

Title: System Engineer (O365)

Location: Washington, DC

Type: Contract

Job #: EE8922471013

Note: This job is not open to C2C or 3rd party candidates.

IGNW is an engineering-based resourcing company headquartered in Portland, OR with GEO based teams in Seattle, WA / Austin & Dallas, TX / Southeast US / California. We have global partnerships to deliver the industry's top technical solutions and talent to every one of our clients. Some of our strategic partnerships include Google Cloud, Hashicorp, Puppet, Cisco, and Docker.

WHY IGNW?

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We are proud to foster a great team working environment and offer highly competitive compensation and full benefits packages including medical, flexible spending accounts, dental, vision, 401k and more

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Project Scope:

Our client has an immediate need for a System Engineer (O365) with the following skills and experience:

Responsibilities:

  • Building new and/or rebuilding existing servers from the "ground up" including hardware, peripherals, settings, services, storage, directories.
  • Performing daily system monitoring and verifying the integrity and availability of all services and related hardware and software.
  • Diagnosing hardware/software problems and repairing/replacing defective components.
  • Performing regular backup maintenance including daily backup operations to ensure all required file systems and data are successful backed up on the appropriate device.
  • Recovering from hardware and software failures, including those catastrophic in nature. Coordinating and communicating with impacted service owners and stakeholders as necessary.
  • Applying platform-level, OS-level, and application-level patches and upgrades on a regular basis including executing emergency and ad-hoc patching and upgrades.
  • Conducting technical research and development to enable continuous service improvement of the infrastructure.
  • Automating repetitive systems administration tasks to provide economies of scale.
  • Creating from scratch or updating existing documentation for processes, procedures, or references. Maintaining logs related to system functions as well as maintenance and repair records.
  • Support and coordinate with across IT teams when troubleshooting incidents related to core and ancillary service delivery.
  • Assist project teams as needed during all phases of project management including testing, executing, and rolling out solutions.
  • Interpret technical information. Discuss the information with others including such information with concepts or terminology with which many people may be unfamiliar.
  • Provide advice or recommend a course of action to leadership on resolving technical problems or improving the technology infrastructure.
  • Stay current with developments in the systems administration discipline. Stay current with relevant technological advancements.
  • Maintain a highly diverse and fast-paced workload that may include a variety of tasks, efforts, or projects.
  • Act as the on-call systems administrator on a rotating schedule. Occasional weekend and evening work may be required.

Requirements:

  • Intermediate skill administering Microsoft Windows Active Directory environment including domain services, sites and services, users and computers, and group policy administration.
  • Intermediate skill configuring and administering Active Directory Certificate Services and Federation Services.
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure including Azure Active Directory
  • Intermediate experience Office 365 products Experience with design, planning and implementation of Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory
  • Proficiency in DNS, Active Directory, ADFS, Intune, Azure Active Directory, DirSync, Hybrid Exchange, SharePoint, or Skype Infrastructures and how they integrate with larger Microsoft collaboration platform
  • Experience with cloud-native SaaS solution management
  • Experience knowledge of Office 365 tools, functionality, migrations, and implementations in enterprise environments (including Exchange, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, Skype, on premise, online and hybrid)
  • O365 design and integration experience.
  • Intermediate skill administering Windows Server 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2, and 2016.
  • Administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • Administering VMware vSphere.
  • Administering VMware Horizon.
  • Intermediate skill administering Windows Server Update Services
  • Intermediate skill in PowerShell v3 or higher.
  • Proven experience working with NAS and SAN devices such as Synology storage arrays, EMC VNX and Unity storage arrays, and EMC Elastic Cloud Storage.
  • Proven experience working with the TCP/IP stack and related services.
  • Proven experience working with DNS, DHCP, and IP addressing schemes.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent customer facing interaction skills

Please note: Candidates may need to pass a drug and/or background check.

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