Systems Administration, Lead

At Woolpert, you'll do work that matters. As a leading global architecture, engineering, and geospatial firm, we help clients solve complex challenges that shape communities, strengthen critical infrastructure, advance technology, and improve the world around us. Here, you'll collaborate across disciplines, tackle meaningful projects, and build a career defined by growth, opportunity, and impact. Position Overview Woolpert is hiring aLead System Administrator to join our dynamic Corporate IT team. This position reports to theDirector of IT Infrastructure & Operationsand is responsible for the planning, design, and operations of the organization's global IT systems infrastructure according to industry best practices, while ensuring the highest levels of data integrity and availability across Public, Private, and US Government cloud environments. This individual will develop, implement, and oversee policies and procedures to ensure consistent system provisioning, uptime, and adherence to regulatory compliance requirements. The Systems Administration Lead is also responsible for capacity planning, project delivery, performance analysis, and developing disaster recovery plans. This role is responsible for managing a growing global team of System Administrators across multiple time zones (domestic and international). We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country where the job is located. What You Will Do: Strategy & Planning - Extensive experience in the configuration, installation, and administration of mission-critical systems such as Entra/Active Directory, Microsoft M365 (Commercial) & G365 (Government), Windows & Linux Servers, and VDI platforms. - Proven track record with capacity management in collaboration with business partners and company forecast metrics. - Proven track record of securing cloud environments to US Federal and State requirements - DoD / CMMC compliance experience preferred. - Proven experience operating, designing, and implementing compliance frameworks, such as SOX, HIPAA, SOC-2, GDPR, and NIST 800. - Ability to interpret compliance controls and develop technical and operational solutions. - Ability to report on enterprise-wide system status, performance, utilization, trends, and business show-back / charge-back. - Maintain current knowledge of IT-related laws, trends, and issues, including emerging technologies and best practices. Develop strategies and policies to ensure best practices based on regulatory compliance while reducing the enterprise's legal exposure. - Justify expenditures on enterprise IT solutions through business cases and ROI/TCO calculations. - Ability to partner with IT Security team to define, communicate, and ensure adherence to compliance policies and create routines for operational best practices. - Develop and maintain procedures for change management, availability management, backup management, incident management, and process documentation. Acquisition & Integration - Extensive experience in managing IT M&A activities, including discovery, strategizing, planning, integration, migration, troubleshooting, and operationalizing support. - Ability to integrate Microsoft Entra/AD, M365 tenants, Server & Storage infrastructure, SaaS platforms, VDI and B2B/B2C environments. - Understanding of IT operational processes & policy to support the merging and augmentation. - Develop SLA's & KPI's aligned with business objectives and elevated customer experience. Operational Management Ensure IT adherence to service level agreements regarding system allocations, limit