Senior Windows Engineer

MANTECH•Laurel, MD

4h•$128,000 - $214,400•Onsite

About The Position

MANTECH is seeking a motivated, career- and customer-oriented Senior Windows Engineer to join its team in Laurel, Maryland. The role is part of a diverse team delivering enterprise infrastructure capabilities for a global workforce in support of national defense. It supports the Enterprise Infrastructure Services organization, which oversees the customer's backbone Enterprise Information Technology platform. The engineer collaborates with Integrated Product Teams and vendors to deploy, manage, and scale critical compute and data center services.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and fourteen (14) years of relevant experience, or nineteen (19) years of relevant experience with a High School Diploma/GED.
Experience with Active Directory and Group Policy Object (GPO) administration to enforce security baselines and manage domain environments.
Experience with automation tools such as SaltStack to automate deployment and maintain configuration state across infrastructure.
Experience administering VMware environments to host, manage, and scale high-availability virtual machines and private clouds.
Experience implementing and maintaining Privileged Access Management (PAM) tools.
Experience managing virtual desktop infrastructure using tools such as Omnissa Horizon (formerly VMware Horizon) for VDI delivery.
DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II certification, such as Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA-Security, GSEC, CND, or SSCP.
Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with PowerShell scripting for advanced task automation and systems administration.
Experience managing secure computing environments to adhere to DISA STIGs and NIST 800-53 security controls.
Experience with Ansible configuration management and orchestration tools.
Experience with Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system environments.

Responsibilities

Provision, manage, and maintain Windows servers across online and air-gapped environments.
Configure network adapters, storage, firewalls, and connected core enterprise services.
Deploy monitoring tools to detect system anomalies and proactively prevent service disruptions.
Perform root cause analysis on outages and implement lasting preventive engineering fixes.
Support hardware, software, and appliance deployments, OS upgrades, and security patching.
Translate complex user requirements and system architectures into actionable technical specifications.
Deliver Tier 1–3 escalation support for client, server, and network issues while administering user accounts.