Job Description
Job Description
Reston, VA
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $45,000.00 to $73,000.00 /hour
LOCATION: Reston, VA
CLEARANCE: TS/SCI Full Scope Poly
VMR Strategic Solutions, LLC is currently seeking an experienced Microsoft System Administrator to support a Government contract located in Reston, VA. The ideal candidates must possess the following skills listed below.
Roles/Responsibilities:
Debug and diagnose platform or service outages for individual tenants on either the Azure or Office 365 services.
- Diagnose and mitigate platform faults for individual tenants or users.
- Troubleshoot client-side issues/experiences for Office products where issue may be with service or protocols from Office platform.
- Draft and share root cause analysis for Customer Reported Incidents (CRIs), including on-going metrics identifying repeat drivers or trends.
- Create positive outcomes for Microsoft partners and customers in critical outage situations.
- Analyze common faults and drive critical fixes that bring stability and/or reduce incident volume to the platform and customers.
- Identify and drive technical and procedural improvement across support.
- Identify customer dissatisfaction in real-time and handle the situation with professional and data driven conflict management including escalating to Microsoft to assist or assume ownership.
- Evaluate support needs and prepare to support new and/or updated features across the suite of services.
Preferred Skills:
- Able to identify and script automatable problems, perform work with efficiency in mind
- Working knowledge of enterprise network gear including routers, switches, and load balancers
- Working knowledge of enterprise routing protocols and IP sub netting
- Experience using common diagnostic tools like Netmon, WinDBG and Wireshark
- Experience with PowerShell, SQL, and Python scripting
- Able to diagnose and mitigate faults
- Able to identify and drive recovery levers with feature teams
- Able to communicate effectively through written and oral English
- Able to interact with external customers and partners on behalf of Microsoft
- Ability to perform work under continuous deadline pressure
Infrastructure:
- Management tasks within the Identify services function, specifically around management of servers, roles, and any associated incidents
- Deploy/upgrade of core components, software and scheduled configuration changes in support of the identify services and roles
- Initial setup
- Bare-metal imaging
- Managing infrastructure roles
- Patching servers
- Deploying and upgrading software
- Scheduled configuration changes
- Active directory management
- GPO requests
- AD data retrieve and modify
- ADFS internal app registration
- Web Proxy requests
- SKU validation
- SOP driven tasks and common recurring tasks
- Tenant migration
- LID management
- Account management request tickets
- Secrets and certificates management
- Perform system and software updates/upgrades in accordance with policy
- Perform password resets to key network and active directory infrastructure in accordance with policy
- Follow Microsoft policies and procedures when performing actions on the network or active directory and other supporting services in support of Microsoft Government Online Services
Desired Skills:
- Diagnosing/debugging faults in complex online services and able to work one of the following shifts:
- Day (M-F, 0800-1700)
- Mid (M-F, 1600 - 0100)
- Night (M-F, 000-0900)
- Weekends Day (S-Su, 0800-2000 plus 2 weekday 8-hour shifts)
- Weekend Night (S-Su, 2000-0800 plus 2 weekday 8-hour shifts)
Education:
Posting ID: 562882788Posted: 2021-01-26