Windows Systems Architect Manager

Windows Systems Architect Manager - Application Portfolio Manager 2
Pay is $80 - $90 per hour
6 Month Contract to hire position
Full-Time Contract Role
Mon - Fri 8am-5pm
US Citizens or Green Card Holders Only
NO CORP TO CORP OR 1099's

Duties: Windows Systems Architect Manager - Hybrid - Overland Park, KS preferred, but open to any Company office location
(must be located within 50 miles of a Company office)

The Windows Systems Architect Manager is responsible for Windows infrastructure lifecycle management planning, design, oversight, and optimization. This individual collaborates extensively with the Infrastructure, Applications, and Information Security teams, as well as with third party vendors and contractors. They focus heavily on the strategic and architectural design of on-premises and cloud solutions, including a focus on access and identity management with B2B and B2C scenarios using current and emerging technologies. They are accountable for a robust Active Directory environment, and they utilize their extensive experience with certificate lifecycle management (internal, external, and cloud-hosted solutions) to design, deploy, and maintain a robust, automated, and secure certificate environment. This individual also uses their expertise with hyperconverged virtualization, storage technologies and backup technologies to plan, design and oversee both large and small installations, utilizing a variety of both on-premises and cloud platforms. This candidate is a recognized subject matter expert, thought leader, and champion for technology adoption and compliance.

Key Responsibilities
Maintains contact and builds relationships with the operating businesses, IT management, IT vendors and technical architects to ensure availability, security, and satisfaction.
Assists in identifying new and improved approaches, technologies, tools, templates, and business use cases.
Designs and oversees deployment for AD Domain/Functional level upgrades
Oversees and supervises Certificate Lifecycle Management across the enterprise
Assesses the production server environments for areas like capacity, connectivity, performance, and resiliency.
Maintains broad-based technical and solutions knowledge in key infrastructure optimization and solution areas including:
Microsoft Active Directory Architecture
Group Policy Structure
User Provisioning / De-provisioning processes
Multi-domain Administration Oversight
Microsoft Entra ID and security policy automation
Hypervisor/VMWare
Certificate Lifecycle Management
Storage technologies and products
Data Protection/Backup technologies and methodologies including recovery processes
Windows Administrator Functions

Management Responsibilities
Experience leading internal local and remote staff
Experience leading external 3rd party on and offshore delivery teams
Skills:
Minimum (Required) Qualifications
BS and/or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
5+ years experience (unless otherwise noted) in the following areas:
Enterprise Windows Active Directory Architecture, Design, Development, Implementation, Migration and Security
Microsoft Entra ID and ADDS (2+ years)
Demonstrated experience with SSO and Identity Federation services (Azure AD SSO, ADFS, SAML)
Demonstrated experience with Certificate Lifecycle Management with multiple Certificate products/vendors
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Active Directory Management / Monitoring
3+ years working in an ITIL environment of formal Change processes and Systems Development Lifecycle processes and of producing the requirement documentation and evidence (ServiceNow experience a plus)
2+ years of Scripting with PowerShell
Understanding of Active Directory Backup and Recovery processes
Configuring Windows Auditing (Basic and Advanced Audit settings)
Windows Server System Administrator
Hypervisor/VMWare architecture/system administration

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) - Desired
Education:
BS and/or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience