Windows Server Architect

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🏛️ Architect

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PhoenixTeam

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

💳 Fintech

🏠 Real Estate

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Fintech • Real Estate • Artificial Intelligence

PhoenixTeam is a company specializing in providing innovative solutions and services to the mortgage industry through integration of data analytics and software development. They focus on delivering quality outcomes by leveraging advanced technologies and methodologies to enhance business processes and drive value for clients in both commercial and federal sectors. Their offerings include training programs, advising, coaching, and customized product solutions designed to align with the specific needs of mortgage professionals, ensuring successful implementation and user adoption.

📋 Description

• Lead discovery of in-scope servers, cataloging roles, services, installed software, and dependencies • Design upgrade approaches for each server, including in-place versus rebuild decisions, AMI selection, EC2 sizing, and phased wave sequencing • Establish go/no-go checkpoints between migration waves • Define and validate OS hardening baselines, including DISA STIGs, CIS Benchmarks, and Active Directory Domain requirements • Remediate outstanding security findings • Design secure administrative access, including RDP, jump server configuration, and CyberArk privileged access integration • Plan certificate management and renewal, including certificate chain validation • Design Windows IIS-dependent workloads, including Power BI Gateway servers • Partner with DevSecOps Engineers to automate Windows build standards and correct configuration drift • Partner with the Test Manager on wave test strategies, success criteria, and rollback procedures • Maintain the project Risk Register • Produce architecture artifacts, including Implementation Blueprints, design documents, and runbooks, in Confluence and Jira • Ensure alignment with the client's Technical Reference Model, audit requirements, and vulnerability requirements • Lead the technical direction for migrating a federal client's Windows Server estate in a FedRAMP-authorized AWS GovCloud environment • Guide DevSecOps, Security, and Test team members in delivering compliant, low-risk upgrades for mission-critical systems

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relevant experience • Associate’s Degree and 9 years of relevant experience in lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree • High School Diploma and 11 years of relevant experience in lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree • Experience leading Windows Server 2016 to 2019 or 2025 migrations in AWS, including upgrade planning, testing, and rollback • AWS GovCloud experience preferred • Hands-on Windows Server OS hardening using federal and industry baselines • Experience integrating Windows servers with CyberArk for privileged access management • Deep expertise in Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, PKI, patching, and Remote Desktop Services • Strong PowerShell skills • Working knowledge of AWS services for Windows workloads, including EC2, AMIs, VPC, Systems Manager, and EBS snapshots • Experience with Windows configuration management using Ansible, WMI, WinRM, and PowerShell • Ability to direct engineers and lead discussions with federal stakeholders • Microsoft Windows Server certification or equivalent hands-on experience may be considered • AWS certification preferred • Experience with AWS Systems Manager automated system patching preferred • Experience managing software deployments through Group Policy preferred • Experience with Microsoft Power BI and Power BI Gateway administration preferred • Experience configuring and hardening Windows IIS servers preferred • Experience supporting federal government systems with audit and vulnerability management preferred • Must be eligible to obtain a Public Trust clearance

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-Time, W2 employment • 100% remote work (US-based) • 40 hours/week with availability during core business hours of 8am-5pm ET