Job Description
Job Description
The USPS Windows Engineering team designs, automates and standardizes every Windows server across the Postal Service. This is an engineering role, not operations: a separate Windows Operations team handles day-to-day support, while this team builds the processes, standards, documentation and automation they run on.
We’re looking for an early-career architect: a strong systems engineer ready to grow into architecture, who takes initiative and isn’t locked into one technology.
What you’ll do
- Build and refine automation for Windows server provisioning, including an AWX/Ansible pipeline that builds VMs in vCenter end to end from a request form
- Take architected projects from non-production testing through promotion to production
- Write the standards, processes and documentation the operations team follows
- Run SQL queries and scripts to report on and validate the environment
- Use Tanium for endpoint visibility and management across the server fleet
- Track performance and health metrics and share them with stakeholders
- Coordinate with vendors and support other teams, including cloud, when needed
First 90 days
Help finish three automation projects that are already designed and tested, and get them promoted to production. Blueprints exist, so you won’t start from a blank page.
Required
- Hands-on Windows Server engineering experience
- VMware vCenter / vSphere
- Scripting or automation experience: PowerShell, Ansible or Python
- Bachelor’s degree, or 4+ years of equivalent professional experience
- U.S. citizen, or green card holder with 5+ years of U.S. residency
Strong plus
- Ansible / AWX (Ansible Tower)
- T-SQL queries
- Tanium
- Cloud experience: AWS, Azure or GCP
- AI or generative AI tools in infrastructure work
- Linux / UNIX
Requirements
- Hands-on Windows Server engineering experience
- VMware vCenter / vSphere
- Scripting or automation experience: PowerShell, Ansible or Python
- Bachelor’s degree, or 4+ years of equivalent professional experience
- U.S. citizen, or green card holder with 5+ years of U.S. residency
- Able to work on-site 4 days a week in Raleigh, NC or Eagan, MN
Benefits
- Health insurance: Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB), with most of the cost paid by USPS
- Retirement pension: A federal defined-benefit annuity at normal retirement age, plus disability coverage
- Thrift Savings Plan (TSP): The federal 401(k)-style plan, with USPS matching up to 5% of pay
- Life insurance: Basic coverage fully paid by USPS, with optional additional coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts: For health care and dependent care, available after one year of service
- Annual leave: 10 days a year for the first 5 years, 15 days after 5 years, and 20 days after 15 years
- Sick leave: 3 hours earned every pay period
- Holidays: 10 paid holidays a year
- Career development: Training and leadership development programs