Systems Administrator - Level 4

Only U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. can be considered as W2 candidates.Position: Systems Administrator - Level 4Duration: 10/30/2021 - 10/29/2022Location: Hartford, CT 06106Must be Citizen or Green Card Holder. Must be CT Resident. Must have valid CT Driver's license. Must work on-site. Must have COVID-19 vaccination.In this role, the following services are required:• Perform MS Dynamics 365 installation and configuration in an on-premise environment.• Perform performance tuning of the Dynamics environment.• Apply Dynamics patches and perform Dynamics upgrades in accordance with Microsoft recommendations.• Act as a central point of contact for performance and functionality issues and work directly with agency staff and Microsoft support to work through to resolution.• Administer Dynamics organization access and automate role based access as appropriate.• Maintain, monitor, and support all instances of MS Dynamics and work with other team members collaboratively to support related systems such as SQL, SSRS, PowerBI and BizTalk.• Configure and maintain on-premises Dynamics environment integration with O365 Exchange for email services.• Prepare documentation and written communications related to the Dynamics environment and build and production control processes.• Work as part of a team to design, implement and maintain disaster recovery and continuing operations plans for Dynamics environments.• Work with application development and System Integrators to understand the design of the core technology and architecture of systems being developed and use that information to identify and implement any required changes to the Dynamics environment to support those systems efficiently and effectively.Required Technical Skills and Experience:For this position, the candidate shares experience and judgment with team to plan and accomplish goals and works as part of an Application Support/DevOps team. A moderate degree of creativity and latitude is expected. In addition, the agency requires:At least 5 or more years of prior experience demonstrating the following knowledge and skills:• In depth expertise with Microsoft Dynamics on-premises Configuration and Support to include, but not limited to, administering access, configuring claims based authentication, configuring an Internet Facing Deployment (IFD), applying Dynamics upgrades and patches, and all other aspects of maintaining and managing MS Dynamics.• Experience working in or with a DevOps team.• Experience integrating MS Dynamics with SharePoint 2016 or newer for document management.• Experience with Windows Server 2016 or newer administration.• Experience configuring and managing SQL Server Reporting Services integrated with MS Dynamics.• Experience configuring and managing Microsoft PowerBI for a MS Dynamics environment.Additional experience with the following is preferred but not required:• SAFe agile framework.• DevOps supporting agile development projects.• Cisco AppDynamics Application Performance Monitor.• Active Directory Federation Services.• Experience with the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2017 integrated development environment, including development, debugging and deployment.