Windows System Administrator

JOB TITLE: WINDOWS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
JOB LOCATION: REMOTE WASHINGTON DC
WAGE RANGE*: 60.00-64.00 PER HOUR
JOB NUMBER: SAIJP00039147

JOB DESCRIPTION

As the Senior Windows Systems Engineer supporting the Federal Trade Commission, you will provide senior technical support for the agency's Windows platform. You will design, engineer, configure, deploy, maintain, monitor, and modernize Windows components and environment within the FTC IT infrastructure. Support program operations and maintenance activities. Will set the standards the rest of the team builds to and serve as an escalation point when an issue exceeds Tier 1 and Tier 2 support. This is a hands-on engineering role with design ownership: you will contribute to how the platform is built, hardened, automated, recovered, and maintained. You will mentor the administrators who operate it day to day.

Experience designing, operating and maintaining Microsoft Azure environments to include Zero Trust, hybrid cloud, and cross-domain architectures in mission environments. 
Expertise in Microsoft Azure architecture, Microsoft Entra ID and on-prem interoperability. 
Experience with Azure Monitor and cost optimization strategies. 
Experience with the configuration, deployment, and management of Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD for centralized identity, single sign-on (SSO), and role-based access control (RBAC) across Azure tenants and subscriptions. 
Demonstrated experience with the integration of federated identity solutions with AWS Identity Center, Entra, or on-premises Active Directory. 
Develop and enforce Azure governance frameworks, including Azure Policy, Management Groups, and Blueprints, ensuring alignment with DoD Zero Trust and least-privilege principles. 
Familiarity with orchestration tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet for configuration management and ability to implement Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for cloud infrastructure provisioning and deployment automation. 
Ability to script in one more of the following computer languages Python, Bash, Visual Basic or PowerShell. 
Understanding of federated identity, modern authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0), and cross-cloud authentication mechanisms. 
Hands on experience with and knowledge of networking concepts (DNS, VPNs, load balancers, etc.) and cloud-based networking configurations. 
Configure, maintain and upgrade 2019, 2022, & 2025 servers operating systems by performing system administration tasks related to: Microsoft Application installation and maintenance 
3rd Party software installation and maintenance 
Configure, maintain and upgrade physical and virtual server installations in FTC datacenters, to include: OS installation and configuration 
Out of Band management configuration (iLO, etc.) 
Hardware installation/maintenance (network adapter, memory, hard drives, etc.) 
RAID Configuration 
Network adapter configuration 
SCSI and Fiber Channel configuration 
Experience and ability to immediately contribute to Automation Tasks and Infrastructure-as-Code tools and templates. 
Provide experience designing, deploying, and maintaining Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) / PKI environments. 
Applied knowledge of system security engineering, including CIS and STIG hardening, vulnerability management, and federal compliance frameworks (FISMA, NIST SP 800-53). 
Extensive experience with Visio or other networking diagram tools and solid understanding of Networking principles. 
Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to resolve complex technical issues in a timely manner. 
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to conduct root cause analysis. 
Actively participate in the process of reviewing and improving operational processes, procedures, technology, and documentation. Support the program team in efforts to improve service delivery to the FTC. Adopt program directed procedural changes, process changes, and tool changes as required for the role. 
Perform work activities in accordance with program processes, procedures, and service level agreements. 

Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities 

* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions. Benefits offered are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and subject to change at TCM's discretion.