Information Systems Architect - Consultant (Network Engineer)

Title: Information Systems Architect - Consultant (Network Engineer)
Location: Columbia SC 29201
On-site/Remote/Hybrid: REMOTE
Duration: 12 Months
Interview Process: 1 Round Virtual

Note: Candidate Location: No SC residency required. Open to candidates that currently live in Eastern time zone only.

Important Note:Pre-employment checks (drug, credit, criminal, motor vehicle)?After selected:
• South Carolina sled criminal check
• Employment Verification
• Cybervetting Screening
• Education check
• Credit report check

Prior to an offer of employment by the Department, applicants will undergo a criminal records Check, Driver's License check, a screening for illicit drugs and a verification of past employment History.

Job Description:daily duties / responsibilities:
• Works under limited supervision in the administration, designing, deploy, maintenance, security, monitoring and support of agency's mdt and mecm/sccm infrastructure.
• Ensure reliable software distribution, patching, reporting, and operating system deployment (osd).
• Analysis of agency software versioning for business needs, as required, and leads in the implementation of software specifications to meet those needs.
• Configure applications deployments for endpoint devices to meet techincal requirements.
• Improve endpoint compliance, security posture, and opertional efficiency based on technical needs.
• Monitor performance of mecm/sccm infratrucuture, event logs, analyze, and perform routine security practices as needed.
• Provide operational support, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
• Updates mdt and mcm/sccm environment with security controls
• Participates in the entrprise administration, planning, installation, maintenance, security, monitoring and support of the agency's endpoint computers, software deployments, and peripheral devices.
• Maximize security controls using industry best practices.
• Supports and adheres to change management processes.
• Awareness of security compliance changes processes.
• Identifies risks and communicates risks to the cio and it team.
• Develops technical documentation following agency policies; cjis security guidance; state security standards.

Additional skills:
• Understanding of hardware and software inventory
• Skilled experience in mecm/sccm hierarchy (cas, primary, secondary sites configurations
• Experienced with boundary groups, site systems, distribution points, and content strategy
• Ability to communicate directly with the it team, business employees, and vendor partners.
• Good understanding of high availability environments
• Good understanding of hardware platforms and ability to troubleshoot, test deploy, and validate global issue resolutions
• Advanced with dns, dhcp, pxe, and related protocols
• Good organization, attention to detail, and time management skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Self-management abilities
• Ability to comply with it policies, sops, disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response requests.
• Good understanding of image testing, issue tracking, sign off, and industry standard soe and imaging tools.

Required skills (rank in order of importance):
• 5+ years experienced in enterprise mecm/sccm and mdt administration
• 5+ years skilled in windows operating system, software, and image deployments & refreshes
• Skilled in multiple os image development & implementation
• 5+ years skilled experience in software update points (sup) and wsus integrations with sql server configurations
• Experienced with active directory, entra ad, m365 administration, Microsoft intune (co-management) and entra defender for endpoint (mde) management; skilled with discovery methods (ad systems, user, group, entra ad/addc hybrid

Preferred skills (rank in order of importance):
• Expert with windows infrastructure, logging, and event handling
• Candidate must be able to demonstrate working knowledge of client settings, deployment strategies, and 3rd party software support
• Expert of compliance settings, baselines, and client health
• Expert with powershell, scripting, logon scripts, and logon optimizations
• Expert with automated deployments of os, drivers, gpos, task sequences, etc...

REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS/TRAININGS: (Preferred)
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Azure Administrator
Network+

About Us:
InterSources Inc, is a Small, Woman, and Minority-Owned Business Enterprise, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 certified company with massive 18+ years of diversified experience in providing IT Consulting Services, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Application Development, Cloud Services, Cybersecurity, Digital Marketing, ERP Management, Custom Software Development, Web Development, UI/ UX Design, System Integration, QA Support etc. We make reasonable accommodations for clients and employees, and we do not discriminate based on any protected attribute including r