Information Systems Architect Consultant

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

• WORKS UNDER LIMITED SUPERVISION in the administration DESIGNING DEPLOY maintenance SECURITY monitoring and support of agencys mdt AND mecm/sccm INFRASTRUCTURE.
• ENSURE RELIABLE SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION PATCHING REPORTING AND OPERATING SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT (OSD).
• ANALYSIS OF AGENCY SOFTWARE VERSIONING FOR BUSINESS NEEDS AS REQUIRED AND LEADS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS TO MEET THOSE NEEDS.
• CONFIGURE APPLICATIONS DEPLOYMENTS FOR ENDPOINT DEVICES TO MEET TECHINCAL REQUIREMENTS.
• IMPROVE ENDPOINT COMPLIANCE SECURITY POSTURE AND OPERTIONAL EFFICIENCY BASED ON TECHNICAL NEEDS.
• MONITOR PERFORMANCE OF MECM/SCCM INFRATRUCUTURE EVENT LOGS ANALYZE AND PERFORM ROUTINE SECURITY PRACTICES AS NEEDED.
• PROVIDE OPERATIONAL SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER.
• UPDATES MDT AND MCM/SCCM ENVIRONMENT WITH SECURITY CONTROLS
• Participates in the ENTRPRISE administration planning installation maintenance security monitoring and support of the agencys ENDPOINT computers SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENTS and peripheral devices.
• MAXIMIZE SECURITY CONTROLS USING INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES.
• SUPPORTS AND ADHERES TO CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROCESSES.
• AWARENESS OF SECURITY COMPLIANCE CHANGES PROCESSES.
• IDENTIFIES RISKS AND COMMUNICATES RISKS TO THE CIO AND IT TEAM.
• DEVELOPS TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION FOLLOWING AGENCY POLICIES; CJIS SECURITY GUIDANCE; STATE SECURITY STANDARDS.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

-understanding of hardware and software inventory

-SKILLED EXPERIENCE IN MECM/SCCM HIERARCHY (CAS PRIMARY SECONDARY SITES CONFIGURATIONS

-EXPERIENCED WITH BOUNDARY GROUPS SITE SYSTEMS DISTRIBUTION POINTS AND CONTENT STRATEGY

-ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY WITH THE IT TEAM BUSINESS EMPLOYEES AND VENDOR PARTNERS.

-Good understanding of high availability environments

• good understanding of hardware platforms and ability to troubleshoot test deploy and validate global issue resolutions
• advanced with dns dhcp pxe and related protocols
• good organization attention to detail and time management skills
• good interpersonal skills
• proactive and Self-motivated
• Self-management abilities
• ability to comply with it policies sops disaster recovery business continuity and incident response requests
• good understanding of image testing issue tracking sign off and industry standard soe and imaging tools

Required Skills (rank in order of Importance):

• 5 YEARS EXPERIENCED IN ENTERPRISE MECM/SCCM AND MDT ADMINISTRATION
• 5 YEARS SKILLED IN WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE AND IMAGE DEPLOYMENTS & REFRESHES
• SKILLED IN MULTIPLE OS IMAGE DEVELOPMENT & IMPLEMENTATION
• 5 YEARS SKILLED EXPERIENCE IN SOFTWARE UPDATE POINTS (SUP) AND WSUS INTEGRATIONS WITH SQL SERVER CONFIGURATIONS
• EXPERIENCED WITH ACTIVE DIRECTORY ENTRA AD M365 ADMINISTRATION MICROSOFT INTUNE (CO-MANAGEMENT) AND ENTRA DEFENDER FOR ENDPOINT (MDE) MANAGEMENT; SKILLED WITH DISCOVERY METHODS (AD SYSTEMS USER GROUP ENTRA AD/ADDC HYBRID

Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance):

• expert with windows infrastructure logging and event handling
• CANDIDATE MUST BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF CLIENT SETTINGS DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES AND 3^RD PARTY SOFTWARE SUPPORT
• expert of compliance settings baselines and client health
• expert with powershell scripting logon scripts and logon optimizations
• expert with automated deployments of os drivers gpos task sequences etc

Required Certifications/Trainings:

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Azure Administrator

Network

***These are preferred not required