Systems Engineering Lead II

Candidates MUST be WI residents or willing to relocate to WI at their own expense prior to starting. This position can work 100% remotely (within the state of WI).

Job Description:

• DCF is looking for a motivated Systems Engineering Lead that will provide innovative solutions within a diverse Enterprise environment with multiple cloud services and onpremises infrastructure components.
• The candidate will have expert level troubleshooting skills with the ability to analyze current technologies used within our organization and determine ways to improve performance and provide stability to backend services.
• The Systems Engineering lead will provide leadership and subject matter expertise in the administration maintenance and support of numerous backend systems that support the agencies application development security and desktop infrastructure.
• They will have responsibilities in directing and managing the workload of team members and managing the oncall support functions for the operations team.
• The individual will work closely with Information Technology professionals to ensure technical components are available for projects and working properly.
• Document and monitor requirements needed to institute proposed updates or new services.
• They will be well versed in projecting for possible challenges on constraints including risks time resources and scope changes to the project.
• They will work closely with the supervisor and project teams to successfully monitor the progress of initiatives provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions and define clear goals for all aspects of a project and manage their proper execution.
• They will have the ability to direct a small team in completing tasks improving on operational support or maintenance and document processes as needed.
• This position will be a technical lead for our backend infrastructure services.
• These services or systems include areas within the Microsoft Services arena including but not limited to Active Directory (AD) services including ADFS Group Policy Distributed File Services Azure subscriptions DHCP and networking protocols and services.
• This person will be responsible for third (3rd ) level technical support functions for the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) monitoring tools multifactor authentication storage and backup Power Shell scripting and numerous customized off the shelf applications that have been implemented at DCF. A highlevel understanding of networking protocols and network connectivity will be required.

Top 34 desired skills required for the position:

• Technical lead analyzing new and current technologies used within an organization with the ability to document and recommend solutions to improve on performance stability and cost savings to the agency.
• A highlevel of soft skills in collaborating with Information Technology professionals within the organization to ensure the proper infrastructure components are available working as designed for projects or operations and that best practices and organizational IT policies are being followed.
• The qualified candidate will have the ability to define and document system requirements and components based on user/client needs costs and required integration with existing applications systems or platforms.
• The candidate will have expert level system administration skills for Microsoft Windows servers Active Directory Administration and other MS core services like Group Policy DFS DHCP DNS to manage monitor and support our Agency Managed Application Servers.