Lead Windows Engineer

Description & Requirements

Maximus is seeking a Lead Windows Engineer to provide senior-level technical leadership and supervisory oversight for Windows-based server and enterprise infrastructure supporting mission-critical federal systems. Empower mission-critical systems and safeguard our Homeland as a Senior Windows Administrator with Maximus—where innovation meets opportunity. This role is onsite, 5 days a week, in Colorado Springs, CO, and requires an active Secret clearance.

Maximus TCS (Technology and Consulting Services) Internal Job Profile Code: TCS221, T5, Band 8

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Serve as a senior technical lead and escalation point across mission-critical enterprise environments. - Provide day-to-day supervision, technical direction, mentoring, and workload coordination for Windows administrators and supporting technical staff. - Coordinate technical work across teams to support the reliability, security, and operational readiness of Windows-based infrastructure. - Administer, maintain, and optimize Windows-based server infrastructure, including installation, configuration, patch management, hardening, and lifecycle support. - Monitor and report on the health, availability, and performance of infrastructure hardware, software, services, and mission-critical applications. - Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, incident response, break/fix support, service restoration, and provisioning of Windows services. - Develop, maintain, and oversee patching, upgrade, backup, restoration, and disaster recovery plans to support high availability and operational readiness. - Coordinate with cybersecurity, network, database, application, storage, and operations teams to support integrated system performance, compliance, and issue resolution. - Create, review, and maintain system documentation, SOPs, runbooks, configuration guides, and knowledge transfer materials for administrator and operations teams. - Install, configure, and troubleshoot local and wide area network applications, software tools, operating systems, and enterprise Windows services. - Support management, maintenance, and operational readiness of Backup and Restore platform hardware and software. - Desktop and tools management for VDI remote desktop infrastructure. - Microsoft Clustering technology; support for both Exchange and MSSQL in clustered environments. Job-Specific Minimum Requirements: - Active Secret Clearance is required. - 15 or more years of experience in the following: - Dell Intel-based servers. - MS domain infrastructure: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Network Policy Server, distributed patch, security and Exchange. - Omnissa (VMWARE) VDI infrastructure and services; backend and frontend. - MS Windows 11. - MS Windows Server (2019 and current). - McAfee Antivirus. - Symantec Endpoint Protection. - Veritas NetBackup. - People management or team lead experience. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-demand, mission-critical environment - Candidates must reside within a commutable distance for daily onsite work and on-call requirements. - This contract supports systems that require 24x7x365 uptime. Candidates must be willing and able to meet recall requirements, including participation in a rotational on-call schedule. #techjobs #clearance #veteransPage #APPCASTDTO

TCS221, T5, Band 8

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

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