Systems Administrator, Intermediate

Advanced Systems Design is seeking an Systems Administrator, Intermediate for our client located in Montgomery, AL.

This position is onsite in Montgomery, AL, and requires in-person availability starting day 1.

The Systems Administrator
- Intermediate is responsible for supporting, configuring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving enterprise server, cloud, collaboration, identity, endpoint management, virtualization, backup/recovery, and related infrastructure services. The position works within the Office of Information Technology systems administration function and supports business objectives through reliable, secure, and supportable technology services. Responsibilities include Microsoft 365 and hybrid identity administration, Windows systems management, endpoint configuration, hypervisor and virtual-machine operations, Druva and other backup/recovery services, patching, automation, monitoring, incident resolution, system documentation, and infrastructure lifecycle activities.

This is a hands‑on systems administration role requiring broad technical capability across multiple enterprise environments.

A hands‑on enterprise systems administrator who can operate across Windows Server, Microsoft 365, identity, endpoint management, virtualization/hypervisors, data protection and recovery, storage, automation, and infrastructure support. The strongest candidates will be comfortable owning day‑to‑day operations while also improving reliability, security, recoverability, and service structure.

• Install, configure, administer, maintain, patch, monitor, and troubleshoot Windows Server and related enterprise infrastructure services across physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Administer Microsoft 365 services and associated security/compliance capabilities, including Exchange Online, collaboration services, content search/eDiscovery support, service configuration, and operational troubleshooting as assigned.
• Administer Active Directory and Microsoft Entra  including users/groups, Group Policy, LDAP, hybrid identity, MFA, federation/ADFS where applicable, directory synchronization, access configuration, and identity‑related troubleshooting.
• Build, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot endpoint and configuration‑management solutions using Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager/SCCM, including Windows servicing, application/package deployment, compliance settings, and policy implementation.
• Administer enterprise virtualization and hypervisor environments such as VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter, Microsoft Hyper‑V, Nutanix AHV, or comparable technologies, including VM provisioning, templates, snapshots, host/guest maintenance, cluster operations, capacity, and performance troubleshooting.
• Administer Druva and/or comparable enterprise backup and data‑resiliency services, including protection policies, schedules, retention, backup monitoring, restore operations, recovery validation, reporting, and escalation of failed or degraded protection jobs.
• Participate in disaster‑recovery and business‑continuity activities by testing restoration procedures, validating recoverability, documenting recovery dependencies, and supporting recovery exercises for protected systems and data.
• Support enterprise storage and file services, including SAN/NAS or cloud storage, file shares, permissions, capacity monitoring, performance, lifecycle, and integration with backup/recovery platforms.
• Administer core infrastructure services such as DNS, DHCP, certificate/PKI dependencies, time services, service accounts, scheduled tasks, remote administration, and related server utilities.
• Perform Windows patching, WSUS/servicing activities,…