Role: Windows Systems Architect Manager
Hybrid - Overland Park, KS preferred, but open to any Client’s office location
Contract: 6+ Months
USC/ GC
The Windows Systems Architect Manager is responsible for Windows infrastructure lifecycle management planning, design, oversight, and optimization. This individual collaborates extensively with the Infrastructure, Applications, and Information Security teams, as well as with third party vendors and contractors. They focus heavily on the strategic and architectural design of on-premises and cloud solutions, including a focus on access and identity management with B2B and B2C scenarios using current and emerging technologies. They are accountable for a robust Active Directory environment, and they utilize their extensive experience with certificate lifecycle management (internal, external, and cloud-hosted solutions) to design, deploy, and maintain a robust, automated, and secure certificate environment. This individual also uses their expertise with hyperconverged virtualization, storage technologies and backup technologies to plan, design and oversee both large and small installations, utilizing a variety of both on-premises and cloud platforms. This candidate is a recognized subject matter expert, thought leader, and champion for technology adoption and compliance.
Certifications:- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) - Desired
Key Responsibilities
- Maintains contact and builds relationships with the operating businesses, IT management, IT vendors and technical architects to ensure availability, security, and satisfaction.
- Assists in identifying new and improved approaches, technologies, tools, templates, and business use cases.
- Designs and oversees deployment for AD Domain/Functional level upgrades
- Oversees and supervises Certificate Lifecycle Management across the enterprise
- Assesses the production server environments for areas like capacity, connectivity, performance, and resiliency.
- Maintains broad-based technical and solutions knowledge in key infrastructure optimization and solution areas including:
- Microsoft Active Directory Architecture.
- Group Policy Structure.
- User Provisioning / De-provisioning processes.
- Multi-domain Administration Oversight.
- Microsoft Entra ID and security policy automation.
- Hypervisor/VMWare.
- Certificate Lifecycle Management.
- Storage technologies and products.
- Data Protection/Backup technologies and methodologies including recovery processes.
- Windows Administrator Functions.
Management Responsibilities
- Experience leading internal local and remote staff.
- Experience leading external 3rd party on and offshore delivery teams.
Skills
Minimum (Required) Qualifications
- BS and/or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years’ experience (unless otherwise noted) in the following areas:
- Enterprise Windows Active Directory Architecture, Design, Development, Implementation, Migration and Security.
- Microsoft Entra ID and ADDS (2+ years).
- Demonstrated experience with SSO and Identity Federation services (Azure AD SSO, ADFS, SAML).
- Demonstrated experience with Certificate Lifecycle Management with multiple Certificate products/vendors.
- System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Active Directory Management / Monitoring.
- 3+ years working in an ITIL environment of formal Change processes and Systems Development Lifecycle processes and of producing the requirement documentation and evidence (ServiceNow experience a plus)
- 2+ years of Scripting with PowerShell.
- Understanding of Active Directory Backup and Recovery processes.
- Configuring Windows Auditing (Basic and Advanced Audit settings).
- Windows Server System Administrator.
- Hypervisor/VMWare architecture/system administration.
Preferred Qualifications
- Operations Management Suite (OMS).
- Experience with network architectures.
- Experience with AD Vulnerability Response/Remediation
- Linux Administrator competency.
- Scripting/Coding and automation using such tools as PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
- Experience in leading the delivery of assessments, development of business cases, and solution architecture.
- Experience with multi-phased, complex migration programs that address technology, people / organization, and process change.
- Strong writing skills – able to delineate concise and structured recommendations for total solutions as well as simplifying systems architecture.
- Dynamic and engaging presentation style that commands respect, inspires confidence, earns trust, and makes the complex easy to understand.
- Strong business engagement and customer relationship management.
- Demonstrated proficiency with technical architecture, practical adaptation and implementation, functional deployment, and business ROI focused areas of enterprise infrastructure solutions.
- Financial fluency which includes working with ROI, cost analysis, and financial statements.
- Strong command of English.
