Windows Engineer

Introduction
As an Application Developer you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment.  The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education tools and technology and a limitless career path with the world’s technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!

Your Role and Responsibilities
Position Location: Radford VA or Ft. Belvoir/VA
5 days onsite
Position Overview:
This position is for a Windows Engineer supporting the Army Edge Computing Capability (AECC) project that ALTESS is fielding for the US Army in the Pacific theater. The AECC solution is a hyperconverged multitenant private cloud hosting environment for hosting Army enterprise and tactical applications. AECC is utilizing the full suite of VMware products (ESXi vSAN NSX vCloud Foundations ARIA Automation Tanzu) to implement a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) across multiple global sites. ALTESS is integrating the Hashicorp Vault and Terraform Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and the GitLab Ultimate Suite into the AECC solution to provide an automation platform in addition to the VMware ARIA capabilities along with a DevSecOps framework for the Army Tactical users to utilize. ALTESS provides value added common and managed services built on top of the VMware foundation that hosted Army applications will require. ALTESS is a managed service provider (MSP) and hosting services provider for Army applications. ALTESS is a Product Director office under Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS).
Position Duties:

• Work with Government engineers to develop and maintain the AECC architecture.
• Develop deploy and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of the Windows based services in the AECC.
• As new applications are hosted on the AECC solution utilize IaC for the provisioning of the customer Windows resources.
• Maintain patching services for all Windows hosts to patch from.
• Serve as overall subject matter expert on Windows Administrator technology and market capabilities/trends.
• Manage objects stored in Active Directory as delegated by Active Directory administrators.
• Perform Active Directory user account and member server management tasks in assigned OUs.
• Provide daily administration of the Windows based Virtual Machines and AECC services.
• Harden the Windows based services per commercial best practices and the required government cybersecurity controls.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of any Windows issues.
• Coordinate and perform major OS version upgrades of virtual machines needing upgrades.
• Develop and maintain system infrastructure and process documentation (system diagrams network topology software configurations device configurations standard operating procedures).
• Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Required Certifications:

• Security+ or equivalent DoD 8570.01-M IA Tech Level II certification
• Must have (or obtain within 6 months of hire) Windows administrator related computing environment certification (i.e. MCSA MCSE or equivalent) as defined in DoD 8570.01-M

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and the Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) process