What success looks like in this role:
U.S. Citizenship and U.S. residency required.
Position Summary
The Principal Windows Systems Support role provides ongoing Systems Administration support, including installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of hardware, software, applications, and connectivity components for Windows environments across multiple locations. This role provides technical support and advises on the use of programming tools, database systems, and networks.
Operational responsibilities include remediation of daily incident tickets, system compliance, system run enhancement, testing, staging, policy/procedure enhancement, client contact coordination, and operational recommendations to address availability and reliability issues on Windows systems, while playing a lead role in shaping Windows systems strategy across the company.
This role splits its time between the Business Availability team — designing highly available Windows infrastructure and reducing reliance on planned maintenance windows — and the Disaster Recovery practice, ensuring Windows solutions are validated against recovery objectives.
Core Responsibilities
Leadership & Strategy
Plays a lead role in Systems Administration across the account, building on responsibilities such as:
“May serve as team lead, allocating work assignments, ensuring work-load balance across the team and providing technical and procedural guidance for less experienced team members.”
Ensures alignment of systems design and strategy with corporate business requirements and objectives.
Business & Systems Alignment
Applies extensive knowledge of the business availability in systems design, development, and support.
Translates long-term business requirements into systems and infrastructure design.
Business Availability Responsibilities
Assesses and documents current-state Windows solution architectures.
Designs and recommends high-availability Windows solutions, including Microsoft Server clustering and VMware-based infrastructure, aligned with business and technical requirements.
Develops migration strategies, implementation roadmaps, and associated bills of materials for Windows environments.
Ensures proposed Windows solutions can be effectively integrated into the Disaster Recovery practice.
Collaborates with account teams to gather operational knowledge and support transition planning.
Disaster Recovery Responsibilities
Participates in design reviews to validate that Windows solutions can meet recovery objectives.
Reviews and maintains DR documentation, runbooks, and supporting artifacts for Windows systems.
Supports coordination and execution of planned DR testing activities.
Monitors and evaluates Windows DR infrastructure capacity across on-premises and cloud environments.
You will be successful in this role if you have:
BA/BS degree and 8+ years of relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
Master's degree preferred.
Expert-level expertise in Windows systems administration and enterprise infrastructure design.
Proven ability to lead technical teams and advise across the organization on complex, business-critical issues.
Experience with Microsoft Server, including clustering.
Experience with VMware.
Familiarity with disaster recovery and high availability in cloud environments — Oracle OCI and Microsoft Azure.
U.S. Citizenship and U.S. residency required.
This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.
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Skills Required
- BA/BS degree or equivalent combination of education and experience with 4-6 years relevant experience
- Deep expertise in Windows systems administration
- Strong troubleshooting and technical support background
- U.S. Citizenship and U.S. residency required
- Eligibility for any required U.S. Government authorizations for export-controlled technology
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Retirement Support — Retirement Support: A 401(k) plan with an employer match is commonly described as part of the core package. The match is often characterized as a meaningful component of total rewards relative to other benefits.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare Strength: Core medical, dental, and vision coverage is described as available and broadly in line with a large IT-services employer. The underlying carrier network is sometimes viewed as solid even when cost concerns exist.
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