What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Systems Engineer position at The Midtown Group?
One of our federal clients is looking for a Sr. Systems Engineer to support their Microsoft Azure environment and overseeing general IT functioning. This would be at least a year-long contract with multiple option years!
Duties :
- 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).
Requirements :
The Midtown Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
