Top Skills' Details• Strong skills on the Windows side

• Active Directory

• Exchange online

• M365

• Strong AWS skills

• PowerShell scripting

• Have an understanding of Azure

• Strong knowledge in VMware

Description:

This team provides high quality technical guidance and support for the American Chemical Society. The team focuses on excellent customer service while delivering server systems support, administration, and maintenance. Through these means CPS aims to advance the mission and vision of the American Chemical Society.

Position Summary

The incumbent in this position, as a member of the Windows Platform Services (WPS) team, is responsible for Windows server administration that supports daily operations of the ACS data centers. The incumbent reports to the WPS Team Manager and works under his/her managerial direction. The incumbent performs expert server administration and maintenance tasks and provides application related server support. Incumbent is a recognized technical resource for the Systems Administration Team for Windows Server, Active Directory administration and M365. As a member of WPS, the Lead Infrastructure Engineer will be an authoritative source with expert knowledge of Windows Server, VMWare, PowerShell scripting, server monitoring and security requirements such as operating system patching and a working knowledge of the AWS Cloud. This position may lead projects and is expected to have excellent communication and support skills to facilitate partnerships with peers and customers. The Lead Infrastructure Engineer must be willing and able to participate in after-hours on-call duties.

Position requires strategic and creative thinking skills to provide input to goals. Ability to determine how to adapt or introduce new technologies to achieve long term goals.

Position Accountabilities

• Provide expert Windows Server administration and maintenance to ensure optimal performance of server hardware and operating system.

• Administer Active Directory domain structure

• Administer IIS web servers and coordinate with business users to schedule maintenance

• Administer Exchange Environment

• Responsible for troubleshooting server errors and identifying root cause and performing server patch maintenance

• Leads projects as assigned by Manager.

• Assists team members in the completion of major project tasks.

• Participate in project planning meetings and takes a lead role in reviewing technical requirements and leading testing activities.

• Participates in the mentorship of staff members.

• Exhibits strong verbal and written communication skills, proactively communicating with customers and framing technical issues so that they can be readily understood.

• Responsible for server troubleshooting. This includes the installation, configuration and troubleshooting of systems.

• Independently utilizes resources (knowledgebases, online resources, etc) to research solutions for difficult problems.

• Works with outside vendors to maintain and repair systems & equipment in a timely manner.

• Follows Standard Operating Procedures and utilizes established support tools.

• Maintain current awareness of standard Washington operations systems and actively research new technology.

• Working knowledge of AWS Cloud solutions.

• On-call duties and extended work hours required.

Education/Experience/Technological Knowledge

• College degree or equivalent experience. MCSA or MCSE certifications are preferred.

• Exchange 2016/Online, M365, Server 2012/R2/2016/2019, Dell Hardware Platforms, SQL Clustering and VMware.

• Server High Availability experience is a plus.

• Ansible, AWS Cloud, and Container experience a plus.

• Experience in server preparation, installation, operation, integration, and monitoring.

• A state-of-the-art awareness in the areas of server operating systems, email communications, web technologies, software, hardware, system performance measurement, configuration analysis and computer security.

• Excellent written, oral communication and organizational skills.

Skills:

Windows, Vmware, Infrastructure, Systems engineering, Cloud, Aws, Azure, Exchange, Windows server, Powershell, Active directory, System administrator, Implementation

Top Skills Details:

Windows,Vmware,Infrastructure,Systems engineering,Cloud,Aws,Azure,Exchange,Windows server,Powershell,Active directory

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

100% remote

Experience Level:

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.