Systems Administrator – Advanced
Location: Montgomery, AL
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Contract Length: 1-year, with possibility for extension, W2
Pay: $45/hr
Sponsorship: This position does not offer employment sponsorship now or in the future.
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Systems Administrator to support enterprise infrastructure across Windows Server, Microsoft 365, identity management, endpoint management, virtualization, backup and recovery, storage, and hybrid/cloud environments.
This is a hands-on technical position requiring broad systems administration experience. The ideal candidate will be comfortable managing day-to-day infrastructure operations, troubleshooting complex technical issues, and improving system reliability, security, recoverability, and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, maintain, patch, monitor, and troubleshoot Windows Server and enterprise infrastructure environments.
- Administer Microsoft 365, including Exchange Online and related collaboration, security, and compliance services.
- Manage Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, including users, groups, Group Policy, MFA, LDAP, hybrid identity, directory synchronization, permissions, and authentication issues.
- Support endpoint management using Microsoft Intune and/or MECM/SCCM, including application deployment, Windows servicing, compliance settings, and policy administration.
- Administer enterprise virtualization environments such as VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, or comparable platforms.
- Provision and maintain virtual machines, templates, snapshots, hosts, and clusters.
- Administer Druva or comparable enterprise backup and recovery solutions, including backup policies, retention, monitoring, restores, and recovery testing.
- Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity activities.
- Support enterprise storage and file services, including SAN, NAS, cloud storage, file shares, permissions, capacity, and performance.
- Administer core infrastructure services including DNS, DHCP, PKI/certificates, service accounts, and related server utilities.
- Perform system patching, vulnerability remediation, security hardening, and configuration management.
- Use PowerShell and other scripting tools to automate administrative tasks, reporting, bulk changes, and routine operations.
- Monitor system health, logs, infrastructure alerts, backup status, utilization, and service availability.
- Troubleshoot complex Tier 2/Tier 3 issues involving servers, authentication, virtualization, storage, backup/recovery, Microsoft 365, and endpoint management.
- Support migrations, upgrades, server refreshes, platform changes, and infrastructure lifecycle projects.
- Create and maintain system documentation, diagrams, inventories, SOPs, runbooks, and knowledge articles.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, networking, cloud, storage, application, database, help desk, and vendor teams.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- 5+ years of enterprise systems administration, Microsoft platform, server, or infrastructure experience preferred.
- Strong hands-on experience with Windows Server and Microsoft-based enterprise environments.
- Experience administering and troubleshooting Microsoft 365.
- Hands-on experience with:
- Active Directory
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Group Policy
- DNS/DHCP
- Windows Server
- Identity and access management
- Experience with Microsoft Intune and/or MECM/SCCM.
- Experience supporting enterprise virtualization/hypervisor technologies.
- Knowledge of enterprise backup and recovery, including backup policies, restores, retention, monitoring, and recovery validation.
- Strong technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication, documentation, organization, and prioritization skills.
- Ability to independently manage both operational issues and planned infrastructure work.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on Druva experience or experience with comparable enterprise backup/data-protection platforms.
- Experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, or similar virtualization technologies.
- Experience with clustering, high availability, VM templates, snapshots, host maintenance, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
- Experience supporting hybrid Microsoft 365 environments.
- Experience with Entra ID, AD Connect, MFA, and hybrid identity.
- Strong PowerShell scripting and automation experience.
- Experience with SAN, NAS, cloud storage, file services, replication, and snapshots.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure or comparable public-cloud infrastructure.
- Knowledge of PKI/certificates, privileged access, vulnerability remediation, system hardening, logging, and audit requirements.
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alerting solutions.
- Experience with ServiceNow or comparable ITSM tools.
- Linux/UNIX administration experience is a plus.
- Microsoft, VMware, Nutanix, Druva, Azure, or related certifications are beneficial but not required.
Key Skills
- Windows Server Administration
- Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online
- Active Directory / Entra ID
- Intune / MECM / SCCM
- VMware / Hyper-V / Nutanix
- Druva / Backup & Recovery
- PowerShell
- DNS / DHCP
- SAN / NAS / Storage
- Azure / Hybrid Infrastructure
- Disaster Recovery
- System Patching & Hardening
- Infrastructure Monitoring
- Tier 2 / Tier 3 Troubleshooting
- ITSM / Incident & Change Management
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