System Administrator

We are CorSource Technology Group, a locally owned technical staffing and recruiting firm in Portland, Oregon.

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System Administrator 3

12 months

Portland

This position closes to submittals on August 7th.

Position requires the ability to meet federal background and compliance requirements.

OVERVIEW

Assignment

This contract System Administrator primarily focuses on Domain Administration. This assignment plays an integral role in building and maintaining the authentication and authorization environment, administering and troubleshooting hybrid identity environments (ensuring synchronization between on-premises Active Directory and Entra ID), planning for and managing capacity and providing Domain support services. This work required of this assignment must adhere to the company Cyber Security policies and be performed in a manner that is compliant with the company audit requirements.

Organization

This System Administrator 3 assignment will work within the Converged Infrastructure (JNDI) organization within Data Center Services (JND) subgroup within the Infrastructure Services (JN) group in the Information Technology (J) business line of the company. The JNDI organization provides storage, compute, virtualization, virtual desktop, authentication and authorization services as a part of the greater JN infrastructure services group. JND also augments facilities support for the production data centers.

ASSIGNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Note: All official drafts, documents and recommendations, as listed below, must be reviewed, finalized and approved / accepted by appropriate manager or other federal personnel with the authority to do so.

• Research, test and document standardized technical procedures for the deployment / troubleshooting of server hardware, the associated operating systems and application software.
• Perform system vulnerability assessments using vendor native (MS SCT) and third-party tools (Nessus), recommending mitigation options based on risk of exploit after consideration of environmental factors.
• Schedule and perform risk assessments regularly and when vulnerabilities are identified on operational network equipment, such as computer systems devices and various software packages.
• Act as a service response escalation point, working with teams of varying technical ability in response to service availability and/or performance related incidents / problems.
• Provide recommendations for process / procedural changes that may become necessary due to environmental changes, upgrades.
• Support disaster recovery by verifying continuous availability of domain services such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, DFS.
• Serve as a technical advisor for project and service response and related tasks.
• Apply the aforementioned processes/procedures in support of the following technologies:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019/2022/2025
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft DNS
• Microsoft ADFS
• Microsoft DFS
• Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure solutions
• Hardware Security Module support for protection of private keys
• SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SCIM
• FIDO2 security keys
• As requested, provide system administration expertise for special projects, which may include working with internal and external clients and vendors. This includes technical input and recommendations; automation solutions; and, other system administration actions. Confer with the workplace manager or federal team lead on a routine basis for project status updates and/or any project issues.
• Provide technical input and recommendations, as a non-voting participant, for potential acquisitions in area of expertise.
• Provide systems administration support for any new systems added to the company’s IT infrastructure, assisting with testing, configuration, integration and implementation efforts, including developing test plans, implementation schedule, scope, dependencies, documentation, and user training.
• Create, develop / draft and recommend cross training and functional documentation of subject matter for the company audiences; conduct User training on an individual or group basis as requested.
• Participate in the company process workshops, including project lessons learned, group improvement and documentation efforts for procedures, processes, standards, guidelines, practices, and other technical and instructional material.

REQUIREMENTS

Education & Corresponding Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred.
• With an Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree in applicable fields, 8 years of experience is required.
• With an Associate’s or Bachelor’s Degree not in applicable fields or without a degree, 10 years of experience is required.
• Applicable Certifications may count for 1 year of experience.
• Experience must include direct work experience in Information Technology performing System Administration.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• 5 Years of knowledge and experience sufficient to administer disparate Active Directory domains and services necessary to support these domains such as DNS, ADCS, DFS.
• 7 Years of knowledge of and experience sufficient to successfully troubleshoot Windows operating systems using text-based logs, windows event logs, and various utilities.
• 5 Years of knowledge of and experience with TCP/IP and related services.
• 5 Years knowledge of and experience with Kerberos authentication in enterprise environments and a strong understanding of Active Directory (AD) integration, LDAP, and hybrid-joined infrastructure.
• 2 Years knowledge and experience of Active Directory Federation services as well as federated identity concepts to support authentication in a SaaS environment.
• 2 years Hands-on experience with Microsoft Entra ID and a solid understanding of SSO and identity protocols such as SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SCIM. Implementation of FIDO2 security keys and experience migrating large enterprise user bases from traditional MFA to passwordless solutions is desirable.

All qualified applicants at CorSource Technology Group 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.

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