Ferries System Administrator; IT System Admin – Senior​/Specialist

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is a multimodal agency with a global reputation for excellence. Our dedicated workforce plans, designs, builds, and operates an integrated transportation system that safely and efficiently moves people and goods throughout the state. In addition to maintaining over 20,000 lane miles of state highway and 4,100 bridges, WSDOT leads an award‑winning Active Transportation Plan, manages the world's longest floating bridge, and operates the largest ferry system in the nation!

WSDOT is seeking a System Administrator to serve as a senior technical resource within the Technology Services Division (TSD) Washington State Ferries (WSF) Infrastructure Support team. As a senior Ferries System Administrator, you will provide technical leadership for the engineering, implementation, administration, modernization, security, and operational support of complex enterprise infrastructure systems supporting WSF’s 24-hour, seven-day-a-week operations across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

In this role, you will also serve as a technical authority for assigned infrastructure platforms and provide consultation, escalation support, troubleshooting, vendor coordination, and lifecycle management for server, storage, virtualization, cloud, identity, networking, unified communications, and other enterprise technologies. We are seeking candidates that will bring advanced technical expertise, and the ability to lead infrastructure modernization and continuous improvement efforts while maintaining secure, resilient, and reliable technology services.

Within TSD, the WSF team supports the information technology systems, infrastructure, and services used by more than 2,000 Washington State Ferries employees across headquarters, terminals, vessels, and other facilities. The position works collaboratively with cybersecurity personnel, application teams, field services, project teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure technology solutions remain secure, resilient, and aligned with organizational objectives.

Among the varied range of responsibilities held within this role, the TSD Ferries System Administrator will:

• Independently administer, maintain, secure, and optimize enterprise server, storage, cloud, identity, virtualization, and supporting infrastructure platforms.
• Provide technical leadership for the engineering, optimization, modernization, and lifecycle management of enterprise infrastructure and cloud technologies supporting WSF operations.
• Serve as the primary technical specialist for WSF cloud infrastructure environments, including administration of Azure and AWS resources, cloud networking, identity services, infrastructure resiliency, monitoring, governance, and cost management activities.
• Administer and secure enterprise infrastructure environments in accordance with agency cybersecurity standards, regulatory requirements, and Payment Card Industry (PCI) security requirements.
• Implement, monitor, and maintain security controls that protect enterprise infrastructure, systems, applications, cloud resources, and data.
• Provide technical leadership for infrastructure projects, cloud initiatives, technology deployments, migrations, and implementation activities supporting WSF operations.
• Engineer and implement technology solutions supporting WSF operations, business applications, physical security systems, communications platforms, and revenue collection systems.
• Lead planning, testing, implementation, migration, upgrade, and operational acceptance activities for infrastructure and cloud technology projects.
• Serve as a senior technical resource and escalation point for complex infrastructure issues,…