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Windows System Administrator

Posted on: Oct 21, 2026

VGroup Inc
Albany, New York
Onsite
CTC

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Job Title :

Windows System Administrator

Job Type :

Contract

Job Location :

Albany New York United States

Remote :

Job Description :

Client: State of New York

Job Title: Windows System Administrator
Start Date: ASAP
Position Type: Contract

Duration: 30 Months
Location: Albany, NY, 12240 ( Hybrid )
Number of Hours: 40 hours a week
Interview Type: In Person
Ceipal ID: SNY_WIND060_IK

Position ID : HBITS-08-15060

Department: NYS Dept of Labor

Short Description: This position provides senior-level operating system administration for the New York State Department of Labor's hybrid computing environment, spanning Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes platforms hosted both on-premises and in the cloud. The position supports the systems administration and platform management architecture that sustains the UISIM system following go-live, and is responsible for technical administration, operational support, and sustained high availability across all layers of that hybrid infrastructure. The position resides within the ITS Office of the CTO, CPEO Site Reliability Engineering organization and works in coordination with State staff who support these platforms.

Responsibilities:

Perform hands-on administration of Windows Server and Linux operating systems across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud-hosted environments, including installation, configuration, patching, hardening, and version upgrades.
Administer enterprise virtualization and hypervisor platforms, including host configuration, virtual machine provisioning, and storage, network, and resource assignment.
Administer Kubernetes clusters supporting UISIM workloads through node provisioning, component upgrades, and container platform troubleshooting.
Configure and review privileged and administrative access controls, coordinate elevated account requests with Agency database and security staff, apply security baselines, and remediate vulnerability scan findings.
Monitor system capacity, performance, and availability using Agency tools, tune resources, and troubleshoot and resolve incidents and service requests during scheduled work hours.
Implement and validate high-availability configurations (clustering, failover, replication, backup/restore testing), write and maintain automation and configuration management scripts, and execute change requests within approved change windows.
Document root causes and corrective actions, while maintaining comprehensive technical documentation including system diagrams, operational procedures, and configuration records.
Support State technical staff through guidance and knowledge transfer as directed by the State Project Manager, and participate in recurring status meetings to report progress, risks, and issues to State supervisory staff

Required:

84 months of experience administering Windows Server operating systems in an enterprise
84 months of experience administering Linux server operating systems, such as Red Hat, Enterprise Linux, SUSE, or Ubuntu, in an enterprise environment, including installation, configuration, patching, and version upgrades.
60 months of experience administering Kubernetes or an equivalent container orchestration platform, including cluster provisioning, component upgrades, and troubleshooting
72 months of experience administering server operating systems hosted in a public or private cloud environment, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform.
72 months of experience implementing and maintaining high availability configurations for server operating systems, including clustering, failover, replication, or backup and restore.
72 months of experience configuring and administering privileged and administrative access
60 months of experience using infrastructure automation or configuration management tooling, such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, PowerShell, or Bash, to provision or administer servers.
60 months of experience applying security baselines and remediating vulnerability scan
60 months of experience using enterprise monitoring and alerting tools to track server
72 months of experience administering enterprise virtualization or hypervisor platforms, such as VMware vSphere and ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV, or Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, including host configuration, virtual machine provisioning, storage and network assignment, and resource management.

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V Group Inc. is an IT Services company that supplies IT staffing, project management, and delivery services in software, network, help desk, and all IT areas. Our primary focus is the public sector including state and federal contracts. We have multiple awards/ contracts with the following states: CA, FL, GA, IL, KY, MD, ME, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TX, VA, TN and WA. If you are considering applying for a position with V Group or partnering with us on a position, please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have regarding our services and the advantages we can offer you as a consultant.

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Position Details

Posted:

Oct 21, 2026

Reference Number:

28282-21485

Employment:

CTC

City:

Albany

Job Origin:

CIEPAL_ORGANIC_FEED

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