Mecm Engineer / Windows System Admin

Description

Come join one of our high performing teams responsible for administrating, patching, and ensuring up-time for a fleet of 88,000+ Microsoft Windows workstations, 8,700+ Microsoft Windows Virtual Machines, and 15,800+ Microsoft Windows Servers (both on-premise and on-cloud). We serve the Social Security Administration (SSA) and their mission to meet the changing needs of the public, positively impacting at least 65 million American lives per month. Be part of the mission solution and help lead SSA’s Digital Modernization Strategy. We are a team of forward-looking professionals in need of a strong candidate with these key required skills: MECM/SSCM Administration, Microsoft Windows System Administration, Patch Management Automation, Basic SQL Server. Do you have most of these key required skills, education, or experience? Do you want to learn more about our telework posture? Are you an US citizen, US resident, or Visa candidate and think you might fit? We recommend you apply and start the conversation today! Join us in supporting our SSA contracts in Woodlawn, Maryland.

Team Culture:

Your passion and values might be a good fit for our teams if you answer “yes” to the following questions:

• Do you enjoy collaborating with colleagues and teammates and believe that the best ideas are fostered in an inclusive environment?
• Are you looking for a company that puts employees first, with a focus on career, flexibility, and well-being?
• Are you comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership?
• Are you searching for a team with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive for daily mission success?
• Do you have the flexibility, creativity, and resilience to pivot the mission for success?
• Do you enjoy being a catalyst, solving complex problems, and providing innovative solutions?
• Do you have the courage to make tough ethical decisions with pride, transparency, and respect?

Mentorship & Career Growth:

Our teams are dedicated to supporting new team members in an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Experienced engineers will be assigned to new hires for one-on-one mentoring, collaborative code reviews, and coaching on customer engagement to help each new hire successfully onboard and demonstrate their skills. Projects and tasks are assigned in a way that leverages your strengths and will help you further develop your skillset.

Foundation for Success (Basic Qualifications):

This experience is the foundation a candidate needs to be successful in this position:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years of combined experience administrating Microsoft Windows 10, and Microsoft Windows Server
• Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
• 2+ years of experience in on-call operation support role for a mission critical system
• 4+ years of combined experience with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), and Microsoft Windows system administration

Factors to Help You Shine (Required Skills):

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Hands on experience with administrating Microsoft Windows 10, and Microsoft Windows Server (2012 R2, 2016, 2019, 2022) through MECM
• Experience ensuring compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines across network
• Solid experience triaging and monitoring complex issues, outages, and incidents as part of on-call support rotation
• Basic networking skills (TCP/IP, DHCP, and DNS)
• Solid understanding of Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy Management
• Experience creating custom MECM/SCCM reports, and SQL based reporting to perform routine audits and inventory
• Experience using MECM / SCCM to include configure, manage, and triage Windows hardware and software patching
• Experience creating custom Operating System Deployment (OSD) task sequence, and Windows Image (WIM)
• Experience automating tasks with PowerShell or other scripting languages
• In-depth knowledge and experience analyzing, researching, troubleshooting, maintaining, and upgrading MECM/SCCM platform and associated SQL Server database configurations

How to Stand Out from the Crowd (Desired Skills)

Showcase your knowledge of Microsoft Windows workstation and server fleet through the following experience or skills:

• Experience using Jira to track and manage helpdesk
• Knowledge of AWS or Azure cloud services and the cloud ecosystem
• Familiarity with SQL Server and Internet Information server
• Experience using Splunk for monitoring and triage
• Experience with Hyper-V, and VMware
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE), or Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA)

Day to Day Responsibilities:

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams and contribute to our communities. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. If this sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, keep reading!

Every position we take is more rewarding when you know the why behind it. Know your work makes a difference to support those who need it most. If your passion is enabling life changing service to those around, you this is the place for you. Find you passion in a team environment where all members are valued regardless of contractor or employee status. We are excited for you to take your place in our Leidos Family.

Find your “Why” with us!

• Provide on-call support for Microsoft Windows fleet
• Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience
• All other duties as assigned or directed
• Use collections and query creation to manage applications, deploy compliance settings, or install software updates
• Provide subject matter expertise in one or more of these areas: MECM, automation/scripting, security, monitoring and alerting, incident response optimization, patching, and other operation support tools.
• Improve and maintain Windows Server and workstation patching process and cycle; actively verify and apply security patches.
• Create, validate, deploy, and rollback enabled packages for COTS, GOTS and custom applications through enterprise using MECM / SCCM.
• Install, configure, maintain/patch, decommission, and ensure compliance of Microsoft Windows operating systems (workstations and servers) enterprise-wide
• Investigate and actively support with operational team to ensure business continuity regardless of component: end-user workstation or windows server, custom applications, middleware, networking, or database (PL/SQL and Data Modeling).

Education & Qualifications

• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust
• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience in a training-related field
  • Master’s or doctorate may substitute for years of experience
• Master’s or doctorate may substitute for years of experience

Leidos’ Health Group is recognized as a Top 10 Health IT provider. We draw on decades of success to deliver a range of solutions and services designed to meet the healthcare challenges of today. From the research bench to the patient bedside, we are a company of scientists, engineers, and technologists delivering a broad range of impactful, customizable, and scalable solutions to hospitals and health systems, biomedical organizations, and every U.S. federal agency focused on health. Leidos works with customers across the continuum of care to improve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes with innovative solutions that advance the next generation of care. Our mission is to contribute to creating a healthier world. Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your resume with us today! ITSSCII

Pay Range:

Pay Range $66,300.00 - $102,000.00 - $137,700.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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