{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"be1cb2a19227e4d4fdbf3bc7","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/be1cb2a19227e4d4fdbf3bc7","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/be1cb2a19227e4d4fdbf3bc7","title":"Senior Server Windows Engineer","description":"Job ID: 2613807\nLocation: Washington, DC, US\nDate Posted: 2026-06-17\nCategory: Information Technology\nSubcategory: IT Systems Engineer\nSchedule: Full-Time\nShift: Day Job\nTravel: No\nMinimum Clearance Required: None\nClearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust\nPotential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE\n\nDescription\nThe Senior Server Windows Engineer will provide systems administration and migration support for over 2000 windows operating on-premises and cloud tenants/environments within AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle. This will include working with a team of server engineers to troubleshoot issues for multiple systems in multiple datacenter locations. The candidate will provide engineering support, implementation, and design services for Microsoft-based systems across the enterprise. The candidate will be responsible for resolving and completing assigned tasks and change requests and will act as an escalation for support issues.\nThis position requires a mixture of engineering, operations, hands on technical and support skills. Qualified candidates should have excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills. The individual will work closely with technical leads, infrastructure and operations teams and other cross-department teams to evaluate business needs and provide end-to-end technical solutions and manage, operate, monitor, audit, and harden server assets.\nFull-time Onsite at DOT HQ, Washington DC. Ideal candidate will cover later shift providing support ending sometime between 5pm and 7pm daily.\n\nJob Duties:\nOnce every 2-3 months support server infrastructure in a 24x7 on-call escalation capacity as part of a team rotation.\nIdentify opportunities to innovate, extend, and enhance service delivery everywhere possible including through automation and scripting.\nPerforms security hardening, patching and server certificate updates.\nRun system scans and analyze reports on system vulnerabilities on over 2000 windows servers in the enterprise.\nMaintain and update environmental documentation, standard Operating Procedures, and engineering documentation.\nProvide support to system administrators to resolve issues when required provide support in response to outages including conducting root cause analysis.\nRecognize and escalate risks, issues, and concerns when necessary.\nAnalyze vulnerability reports identify areas of responsibility for remediation.\nResolve known exploited vulnerabilities, prioritizing critical and highs.\nFacilitate coordination of vulnerability remediations across the team.\nDevelop and provide recommendations and remediations for vulnerabilities.\nHarden Windows OS with secure versions of Transport Layer Security (TLS), and cipher suites according to NIST policy.\nAssist Security Operations personnel in developing Plan of Action & Milestones (POAM’s) for vulnerabilities requiring long-lead time resolve.\nWork closely with the SCCM/Deployment team to perform routine and bulk patching as well as reporting.\nProvide on-call support and manage ticket queue.\nDemonstrate a strong appetite to learn and translate evolving threats into real world recommendations.\nImprove existing processes through solutions to recurring problems and enhancements to existing solutions or documentation.\nProvide support for new enterprise systems and in support of engineering solutions to address existing issues.\nCreate and maintain system documentation for domain technologies, including installation, configuration, and appropriate troubleshooting steps\nQualifications\nRequired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities\nMust have a minimum of 10 years of experience administrating and managing servers and systems, cloud infrastructure, file and print environments, specializing in Windows operating systems\nExperience managing environments of 2000+ servers across multiple field site locations.\nExperience leading troubleshooting calls spanning across multiple teams and using multi-discipline approach.\nMust have extensive knowledge of multi-vendor server operating systems.\nDemonstrated experience in all aspects of enterprise Windows environment operations and engineering.\nMS Server Administration [senior-level]\nScripting Experience: MS Graph/PowerShell and VBScript [senior-level]\nWindows Server Operating Systems (2019 to 2022) [senior-level]\nVMware vSphere [senior-level]\nActive Directory / Entra [intermediate-level]\nStrong knowledge and troubleshooting skills to resolve failed update installation in Windows OS.\nStrong knowledge of AD Group policy and applying security posture via GPO's.\nStrong knowledge of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).\nExperience with performing root cause analysis, risk identification, and risk mitigation.\nMust be a self-started with strong problem solving and communication skills.\nExperience with installing hardware drivers, firmware, bios, and other hardware upgrades for Dell servers.\nDemonstrate knowledge of common ports and protocols used by Windows servers and clients.\nExperience with performing root cause analysis, risk identification, and risk mitigation\nInterpersonal skills including the ability to collaborate effectively.\nDemonstrated experience in a fast tempo ITSM support environment.\nCandidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years with the ability to obtain a public trust clearance\n\nPreferred\nIntune access experience with Co-Management across MS Intune and SCCM/MECM\nExperience providing IT Service Management services delivery to the US Government\nMicrosoft Certification(s) including Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate, Endpoint Administrator Associate, Azure Fundamentals, Azure Administrator Associate, MS365 Certified Administrator Expert, etc.\nAWS/ Azure Cloud Certifications a plus\nVMware Certifications a plus\nExperience with MS Server 2025, ideally with building images and applying STIG’s for compliance.\nAdministrator level proficiency with vulnerability management tools such as Tenable Nessus, Qualys WAS, Inviciti, and BigFix.\nExperience with Dell Open Manage Enterprise is a plus.\nExperience with PowerBI is a plus.\nExperience with Microsoft Intune is a plus.\n\nTarget salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. 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This will include working with a team of server engineers to troubleshoot issues for multiple systems in multiple datacenter locations. The candidate will provide engineering support, implementation, and design services for Microsoft-based systems across the enterprise. The candidate will be responsible for resolving and completing assigned tasks and change requests and will act as an escalation for support issues.\nThis position requires a mixture of engineering, operations, hands on technical and support skills. Qualified candidates should have excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills. The individual will work closely with technical leads, infrastructure and operations teams and other cross-department teams to evaluate business needs and provide end-to-end technical solutions and manage, operate, monitor, audit, and harden server assets.\nFull-time Onsite at DOT HQ, Washington DC. Ideal candidate will cover later shift providing support ending sometime between 5pm and 7pm daily.\n\nJob Duties:\nOnce every 2-3 months support server infrastructure in a 24x7 on-call escalation capacity as part of a team rotation.\nIdentify opportunities to innovate, extend, and enhance service delivery everywhere possible including through automation and scripting.\nPerforms security hardening, patching and server certificate updates.\nRun system scans and analyze reports on system vulnerabilities on over 2000 windows servers in the enterprise.\nMaintain and update environmental documentation, standard Operating Procedures, and engineering documentation.\nProvide support to system administrators to resolve issues when required provide support in response to outages including conducting root cause analysis.\nRecognize and escalate risks, issues, and concerns when necessary.\nAnalyze vulnerability reports identify areas of responsibility for remediation.\nResolve known exploited vulnerabilities, prioritizing critical and highs.\nFacilitate coordination of vulnerability remediations across the team.\nDevelop and provide recommendations and remediations for vulnerabilities.\nHarden Windows OS with secure versions of Transport Layer Security (TLS), and cipher suites according to NIST policy.\nAssist Security Operations personnel in developing Plan of Action & Milestones (POAM’s) for vulnerabilities requiring long-lead time resolve.\nWork closely with the SCCM/Deployment team to perform routine and bulk patching as well as reporting.\nProvide on-call support and manage ticket queue.\nDemonstrate a strong appetite to learn and translate evolving threats into real world recommendations.\nImprove existing processes through solutions to recurring problems and enhancements to existing solutions or documentation.\nProvide support for new enterprise systems and in support of engineering solutions to address existing issues.\nCreate and maintain system documentation for domain technologies, including installation, configuration, and appropriate troubleshooting steps\nQualifications\nRequired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities\nMust have a minimum of 10 years of experience administrating and managing servers and systems, cloud infrastructure, file and print environments, specializing in Windows operating systems\nExperience managing environments of 2000+ servers across multiple field site locations.\nExperience leading troubleshooting calls spanning across multiple teams and using multi-discipline approach.\nMust have extensive knowledge of multi-vendor server operating systems.\nDemonstrated experience in all aspects of enterprise Windows environment operations and engineering.\nMS Server Administration [senior-level]\nScripting Experience: MS Graph/PowerShell and VBScript [senior-level]\nWindows Server Operating Systems (2019 to 2022) [senior-level]\nVMware vSphere [senior-level]\nActive Directory / Entra [intermediate-level]\nStrong knowledge and troubleshooting skills to resolve failed update installation in Windows OS.\nStrong knowledge of AD Group policy and applying security posture via GPO's.\nStrong knowledge of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).\nExperience with performing root cause analysis, risk identification, and risk mitigation.\nMust be a self-started with strong problem solving and communication skills.\nExperience with installing hardware drivers, firmware, bios, and other hardware upgrades for Dell servers.\nDemonstrate knowledge of common ports and protocols used by Windows servers and clients.\nExperience with performing root cause analysis, risk identification, and risk mitigation\nInterpersonal skills including the ability to collaborate effectively.\nDemonstrated experience in a fast tempo ITSM support environment.\nCandidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years with the ability to obtain a public trust clearance\n\nPreferred\nIntune access experience with Co-Management across MS Intune and SCCM/MECM\nExperience providing IT Service Management services delivery to the US Government\nMicrosoft Certification(s) including Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate, Endpoint Administrator Associate, Azure Fundamentals, Azure Administrator Associate, MS365 Certified Administrator Expert, etc.\nAWS/ Azure Cloud Certifications a plus\nVMware Certifications a plus\nExperience with MS Server 2025, ideally with building images and applying STIG’s for compliance.\nAdministrator level proficiency with vulnerability management tools such as Tenable Nessus, Qualys WAS, Inviciti, and BigFix.\nExperience with Dell Open Manage Enterprise is a plus.\nExperience with PowerBI is a plus.\nExperience with Microsoft Intune is a plus.\n\nTarget salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. 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