DevOps Engineer – Systems Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.

• Oversee container platforms and orchestration.

• Create and sustain infrastructure-as-code.

• Automate repetitive operational tasks to minimize manual effort and enhance reliability.

• Monitor system health, performance, and availability; set up alerting and on-call runbooks.

• Collaborate with development teams on deployment strategies, release management, and rollback procedures.

• Manage Windows Server environments, including Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP.

• Install, configure, and maintain IIS web servers, encompassing application pools, bindings, and site configurations.

• Administer VMware vSphere environments, including VM provisioning, snapshots, vMotion, and cluster management.

• Conduct OS patching and hotfix deployment across Windows and Linux servers.

• Handle SSL/TLS certificate procurement, installation, renewal, and expiration monitoring.

• Diagnose service failures, configuration errors, and performance issues by troubleshooting IIS logs and Windows event logs.

• Resolve server, application, and network issues in both on-premises and cloud environments.

• Maintain system documentation, runbooks, and change management records.

• Implement CIS benchmark and STIG security hardening standards.

• Address vulnerability scan findings within specified SLA windows.

• Assist with SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, or other relevant audit and compliance activities.

• Manage secrets and credential rotation for service accounts, certificates, and API keys.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Administration role.

• Practical experience administering Windows Server 2016 or later, Active Directory, and Group Policy.

• Demonstrated experience in configuring and troubleshooting IIS, including application pools, SSL bindings, request filtering, and logging.

• Robust understanding of SSL/TLS certificate management, encompassing public CA procurement, Let’s Encrypt/ACME automation, installation, and proactive renewal workflows.

• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere (ESXi 7+/8, vCenter) and/or Azure VMware Solution (AVS).

• Experience with OS patching workflows for Windows (WSUS, SCCM, or equivalent) and Linux (yum/apt).

• Familiarity with at least one CI/CD platform: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar.

• Proficiency in scripting with PowerShell and at least one of Bash, Python, or Go.

• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancers, and firewalls.

• Experience deploying or managing workloads in AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Strong written communication skills for runbooks, change requests, and postmortems.

• Must successfully pass a background check per client and project requirements.

• Preferred familiarity with NSX-T or VMware HCX.

• Preferred experience in planning or executing on-premises VMware workload migrations to AVS.

• Preferred experience with Kubernetes and Helm chart management.

• Preferred proficiency with Terraform and/or Ansible.

• Preferred familiarity with HashiCorp Vault or a similar tool.

• Preferred experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or ELK.

• Preferred exposure to Windows Admin Center, System Center, or MECM/SCCM.

• Preferred knowledge of certificate automation via ACME, ADCS, or managed PKI.

• Preferred relevant certifications, including Microsoft, AWS, RHCE/RHCSA, or CompTIA certifications.

• Preferred experience in regulated environments such as SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or FedRAMP.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive core benefits (medical, dental, vision).

• Employer-paid life and disability coverage.

• Voluntary benefits, including pet insurance, pre-paid legal, hospitalization, critical illness, and accident insurance.

• 401(k) with day-one eligibility.

• 100% company match on the first 3% of eligible compensation.

• 50% company match on contributions between 3% and 5%.

• 10 paid holidays.

• PTO plan starting at 15 days annually, increasing to 25 days with tenure.

• Access to Consertus Academy for ongoing learning and development.