Windows Systems Integration Engineer-heavy travel

Traveling Systems Integration Engineer with experience to help integrate newly acquired offices. This Engineer will install our switches, firewalls, configure VLANS and setup servers in an AD environment. This Engineer will travel to various offices. Travel required: 65% (The ability to travel to throughout the US, Canada, and the UK is a must.) Valid DL and U.S. Passport required for consideration. This is an open contract with the ability to go perm/FTE after a min. 12 months.

Required: At least 100 mb download, and 10 mb upload (no satellite OR cellular-based internet)

Traveling Systems Integration Engineer

A minimum of 10 years of experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows operating system, Windows Server, Active Directory, and GPOs AND switches, firewalls, WAPs, and configure VLANS.

Solid experience in the administration and performance tuning of applications

Experience with virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V)

Experience with monitoring systems (PRTG, SolarWinds, Nagios)

Ability to work with a Distributed team and communicate with team members effectively

Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)

Microsoft Exchange and O365 migration knowledge (SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive)

Strong Microsoft Office skills with Outlook, Excel, and Word. Microsoft Project, Visio, and PowerPoint expertise is a plus.

Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and the ability to migrate applications to Azure is a plus.

• 8+ years' experience in Systems administration with Microsoft, Cisco, or Fortinet based infrastructure

Systems Engineer Responsibilities

• Installing, configuring, maintaining Windows Server operating systems, application software, and system management tools
• Travel to various offices to conduct Site surveys and document hardware systems, software, and infrastructure.
• Ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability and security
• Maintain security, backup, and business continuity strategies
• Ability to understand how an application is supported by a vendor and determine upgrade plans for unsupported platforms
• Knowledge of Windows Server 2012/2016 and Windows 10 configuration and troubleshooting
• Migrate computers onto the corporate network and restore applications and end user data

Network Engineer responsibilities

Configurations knowledge of Switches, Routers, Firewalls, and other miscellaneous network hardware and related equipment

Understanding of LAN Switching at L2 and LAN/WAN Routing at L3

Understanding of LAN to LAN VPNs including legacy MPLS and SD WAN

Understanding of Perimeter Security (Firewall & IDS)

License / Certification: One or more of the following certifications preferred: A+ or equivalent, Microsoft, VMWare, Cisco CCNA, Network+, Security+, Fortinet or similar.