Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Intrado is dedicated to saving lives and protecting communities, helping them prepare for, respond to, and recover from critical events. The Senior Systems Administrator will be responsible for managing a large Windows Server environment and Active Directory infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and reliability while collaborating with various infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities
- Administration and engineering of a large Windows Server environment across physical, virtual, on-premises, and public cloud platforms
- Requirements analysis, system design, build planning, and implementation planning with internal customers
- Administration and improvement of AD DS across multiple domains and forests, including domain controllers, replication, Group Policy, authentication, DNS dependencies, trusts, and directory health
- Provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, and retirement of Windows Servers with minimal downtime, standardized builds, and automation wherever practical
- Complex infrastructure investigations, root-cause analysis, solution documentation, and maintenance of technical standards and operational procedures
- Senior escalation support for Windows infrastructure; improvements to security, reliability, recoverability, performance, and supportability
- Monitoring, alerting, and health validation for Windows systems and services; operational analysis to identify risks and prevent service impact
- Windows Server configuration standards, vulnerability remediation, access controls, certificate management, and secure administrative practices
- Deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting of Windows virtual machines in vSphere; assistance with VMware platform work as needed
- PowerShell modules, scripts, and workflows for provisioning, configuration, patching, health validation, reporting, and remediation
- Improvement of on-premises platforms; migration of appropriate workloads to cloud services and automated deployment models
- Protection requirements, Windows-side dependency troubleshooting, and recovery validation for critical systems and services
- Required participation in a 24x7 rotation and scheduled after-hours maintenance as needed
Skills
- Five or more years of progressively responsible systems administration or systems engineering experience, including substantial support of large, complex enterprise server environments
- Core requirements are deep Windows Server, Active Directory, troubleshooting, and PowerShell experience
- Strong experience with Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022, and 2025; support and modernization of legacy 2008 and 2012 systems; standardized builds, patching, upgrades, troubleshooting, performance analysis, clustering, file services, recovery, and retirement
- Strong AD DS experience across multiple domains and forests with limited trust relationships; Group Policy, DNS integration, LDAP, authentication, and related identity infrastructure
- Advanced proficiency with reusable functions and modules, remoting, structured error handling, logging, data processing, and API or management-platform integration
- Solid vSphere experience deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting Windows VMs
- Working knowledge of routing, switching, firewalls, and load balancers such as F5
- Windows integration with enterprise storage and backup platforms; volume and filesystem configuration, capacity troubleshooting, snapshot and backup coordination, and restore validation
- Basic administration skills, preferably with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Experience with platforms such as New Relic or Zabbix
- Enterprise ticketing and change management experience with ServiceNow, Remedy, or similar systems
- Degree in Computer Science, IT, Information Systems, or a related field preferred; equivalent professional experience accepted
- Current Microsoft, VMware, cloud, automation, or infrastructure certifications preferred, but not required
- VMware: broader ESXi, vCenter Server, clustering, capacity, upgrades, and platform monitoring strongly preferred
- Microsoft 365 and Entra ID: Windows infrastructure integration with Microsoft Entra ID and related Microsoft 365 services preferred; Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, and Intune familiarity useful
- Cloud platforms: Azure or AWS experience preferred
- Automation platforms: Configuration management, Infrastructure as Code, or deployment automation experience with tools such as Ansible and Terraform strongly preferred
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life and disability coverage
- Paid time off
- A 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid parental leave
- Access to a robust library of personal and professional training resources
- Employee discounts
- Critical illness
- Hospital indemnity
- Access to legal support
- Pet insurance
- Identity theft protection
- An EAP (Employee Assistance Program) that includes free mental health resources/support
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