Job Title: - Consultant - MS SCCM System Administrator
Location: - Columbia SC -: Fully Remote
Interview Process: 1 round, Virtual/Online
Duration of the Contract: 12 months
Possibility for Extension: Yes
Description:- Works under limited supervision in the administration, designing, deploy, maintenance, security, monitoring, and support of agency's 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 technical requirements.
- Improve endpoint compliance, security posture, and operational efficiency based on technical needs.
- Monitor performance of MECM/SCCM infrastructure, 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 enterprise administration, planning, installation, maintenance, security, monitoring, and support of the agency's 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 IT team.
- Develops technical documentation following agency policies, security guidance, and state security standards.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS- Understanding of hardware and software inventory.
- Skilled experience in MECM/SCCM hierarchy (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 and imaging tools.
REQUIRED SKILLS (RANKED 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, users, groups, Entra AD/ADDC hybrid).
PREFERRED SKILLS (RANKED 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 3rd-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+
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Syntricate Technologies Inc