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