Technology Solutions Specialist #476

Required Work Experience 3-5 years of related experience. As part of our hiring process, we may conduct a skills assessment to better understand an applicant’s proficiency in key areas relevant to the role. Desired Qualifications Have a full working knowledge and experience with the multiple versions of Windows OS servers and/or equivalent Windows Server Administration. Provide all levels of OS support for all servers and shall participate in the following activities at the direction of the SAA and PGDM to achieve the desired outcomes. Manage the applications that are on the servers and maintain server certificates. Transitioning of business applications from lower environments to Production. Support activities involve use of virtualization, management software products that provide management, administration, provisioning, and enables automation of Windows OS. Use of the supporting tools for this implementation are required for automated system monitoring as each application is brought on board in Dev, Test and then transitioned to the Production environment. Ability to design, develop, and document technical solutions, architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures and change requests. Experience deploying, upgrading, and maintaining business systems and applications. Experience developing and maintaining SQL and Powershell scripts/processes. Operational knowledge of creating, renewing, and maintaining SSL/TLS certificates. Operational experience of database structures and operations, (MS-SQL). Operational experience with MS Server administration. Including service accounts, security groups, deployments and routing application / server updates, FTP, SFTP (vShell), etc. Working Conditions The U.S. Senate network cannot be taken offline for maintenance during the workday, or while the Senate is in session. As such, maintenance windows may only occur at night, on weekends, and occasionally on holidays. Employees who perform systems upgrades, maintenance, wiring, backups, support our alternate data centers will have schedules that include working nights, weekends, and holidays. Sedentary with extended periods of sitting and standing.
The Senate Sergeant at Arms is seeking a Technology Solutions Specialist. The complete vacancy announcement and application can be found on the United States Senate Career Page at https://sen.gov/J5NY. This vacancy announcement closes at 7pm EST on the closing date. Late applications will not be accepted.