Senior Systems Engineer

Western Door Federal is part of the Seneca Nation Group (SNG) portfolio of companies. SNG is the federal government contracting business wholly owned by the Seneca Nation. SNG meets mission-critical needs of federal civilian, defense, and intelligence community customers across a variety of domains. The SNG portfolio receives shared services support from its parent company Seneca Holdings and is comprised of multiple companies that participate in the Small Business Administration 8(a) program. To learn more visit www.senecanationgroup.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

The Seneca Nation Group companies offer competitive compensation and a strong benefits package including comprehensive medical and dental care, matching 401K, paid time off, flexible spending accounts, disability coverage, and other benefits that help provide financial protection for you and your family. We pride ourselves on our collaborative work environment and culture which embraces our mission of providing financial and non-financial benefits back to the members of the Seneca Nation.

The Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) is responsible for providing a safe and secure environment for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. Within DS, the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (DS/CTO) contains the staff, resources, authority and responsibility for managing and implementing the priority IT program requirements of the Bureau in a manner that facilitates the achievement of the Bureau performance goals. This team of cleared technical specialist will:  1) sustain engineering and Tier III support for existing services, implement additional enhancements, and facilitate moves of such systems to Cloud based infrastructures or architectures.

Western Door Federal is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer  in the Washington,DC area. The objective of this work is to work to implement and manage Active Directory Domains and development required system designs. 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Work with the stakeholder community to determine system requirements
• Implement and manage Active Directory domains and forests at an enterprise level across multiple physical locations
• Develop and document required system designs for design reviews
• Preparing system design documents using MS Visio
• Working with DoS and service provider staff to migrate on premise services/systems to cloud environments.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience managing and maintaining Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) environments based on Windows Server 2008 and 2012
• Experience managing Active Directory-integrated DNS and DHCP solutions
• Experience with Active Directory re-structuring and object migration
• Experience with Group Policy design, management and troubleshooting
• Experience with LDAP-based identity management solutions
• Experience with identifying and resolving AD performance, reliability, and security issues
• Experience with providing Tier 2 and Tier 3 problem identification, diagnosis, and resolution of problems
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and posses a Top Secret security clearance
• Good working skills in Microsoft office (Word PowerPoint, Project, and Excel)
• Good interpersonal skills: Applicant should possess the ability to communicate technical and project information to management. Applicant will also assist with authoring and presenting technical detailed implementation and deployment plans
• Be a self-starter who takes responsibility for completing assignments on time

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of cloud based environments (i.e., Microsoft Office365 and Azure technologies) and cloud infrastructures (i.e., IaaS, PaaS and SaaS)
• Good working skills in Remedy trouble ticketing and asset management system
• Experience with developing scripted solutions using Microsoft PowerShell
• Experience with enterprise PKI solutions
• Previous working experience at DoS is desirable, but not required