The Role
Manages on-premises and cloud server infrastructure, including monitoring, maintenance, upgrades, backups, patching, and disaster recovery. Develops alerting strategies, technical architecture, security configurations, and mitigation plans. Administers Windows Server, Active Directory, Azure, VMware, and enterprise applications while coordinating change management and maintenance activities. Responds to incidents, resolves complex infrastructure issues, supports vulnerability remediation, and recommends infrastructure improvements. Requires occasional off-hours and weekend work.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
ECS is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to work in our Washington, DC office.
- Responsible for the day-to-day operations, maintenance, and monitoring of the agency's on-prem and cloud server infrastructure.
- Establishes monitoring requirements for servers and applications as well as develop and deploy alerting strategies.
- Coordinates all maintenance activities including testing and scheduling for maintenance weekends and ensuring that all change records have been approved prior to maintenance events.
- Assures implementation by working with staff on the goals and objectives of agency-wide programs, implements established goals and objectives, assesses measures that evaluate performance, and makes recommendations for program improvement.
- Develops mitigation strategies when vulnerabilities cannot be remediated, coordinates with IT Security for review and acts on any directed changes.
- Responsible for upgrading and managing all domain services and works with various system owners to coordinate systems upgrades, system backups and hardware refreshes.
- Develops and submits change requests and tracks to completion hardware and software upgrades and patches.
- Develops technical architecture and documentation that details procedures for installation, maintenance, security, configuration, and disaster recovery while considering cost and performance impact.
- Responds to events and incidents with possible security architecture or negative user experience impacts; takes necessary corrective actions promptly.
- Plans, organizes, and conducts research on complex infrastructure and client support issues that involve major areas of uncertainty in approach, methodology, or interpretation to identify appropriate solutions.
- Identifies and resolves unique issues, recommends innovative solutions to address new needs and/or issues and recommends
- enterprise upgrades, changes, or enhancements.
- Performs proactive monitoring of system logs, services, scripts, and applications on servers’ systems, storage arrays for internal and customer-facing applications (min. 6 years’ experience).
- Extensive knowledge administering and managing Microsoft Windows Server operating systems in a physical and virtual environment (Azure min. 3 years’ experience and VMware min. 6 years’ experience).
- Must have the ability to independently rollout and manage server infrastructure projects, hosting enterprise applications across multi-server farms. (min. 6 years’ experience).
- 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. (min. 6 years’ experience).
- Expert knowledge of Windows Security for server and policy configurations. (Example: DOD STIG, server hardening, vulnerability remediation, baseline security configurations) (min. 6 years’ experience).
- Proficient knowledge and experience with Azure services: Azure administration portal, resource groups, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services. (min. 3 years’ experience).
- Experience with PowerShell and other scripting tools (min. 6 years’ experience).
- 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.
- Candidate will possess at least 3 years of specialized IT experience in Azure Entra ID.
Skills Required
- At least 6 years of experience in proactive monitoring of system logs, services, scripts, applications, and storage arrays
- Extensive experience administering Microsoft Windows Server in physical and virtual environments
- At least 3 years of experience with Azure
- At least 6 years of experience with VMware
- At least 6 years of experience independently rolling out and managing server infrastructure projects across multi-server enterprise application farms
- At least 6 years of expert experience with Active Directory, DNS, and Group Policy
- Experience architecting and deploying Active Directory domain controller design, schema, OU design, replication topology, and backup and restore procedures
- At least 6 years of experience with Windows security, server hardening, DOD STIGs, vulnerability remediation, and baseline security configurations
- Experience administering Azure services, including the Azure portal, resource groups, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- At least 6 years of experience with PowerShell and other scripting tools
- Demonstrated problem-solving, project planning, budgeting, scheduling, resource management, documentation, organization, and customer service skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work off-hours and weekends for maintenance, upgrades, and installations
- At least 3 years of specialized IT experience with Azure Entra ID
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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The Company
What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
