Windows Migration & Automation Engineer (Ansible / PowerShell)

Seeking an experienced Windows Server Engineer to support large-scale server migration projects by performing pre- and post-migration validation, ensuring successful cutovers, and developing automation to streamline health checks. The team will be responsible for validating approximately 100 Windows servers per day in a high-volume migration environment, * Perform pre-migration validation to confirm server readiness, application dependencies, network connectivity, and baseline system health.

• Execute post-migration validation to verify successful migration and ensure all services, applications, and infrastructure components are functioning as expected.
• Validate that cutover activities are complete, confirming server accessibility, DNS updates, application availability, authentication, scheduled tasks, and service status.
• Develop and maintain PowerShell automation and scripts to perform standardized health validation across large server populations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve validation failures, working closely with migration, application, infrastructure, and operations teams.
• Generate validation reports, document issues, and provide migration signoff based on defined acceptance criteria.
• Support high-volume migration events, validating approximately 100 servers per day while meeting established SLAs.

• 10+ years of Windows Server administration experience (Windows Server 2016/2019/2022).
• Strong experience supporting enterprise server migration or data center migration projects.
• Advanced PowerShell scripting skills for automation and health validation.
• Experience validating Windows services, Event Logs, scheduled tasks, IIS (where applicable), DNS, Active Directory, file shares, networking, and application connectivity.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Windows OS, networking, storage, and authentication.
• Experience working in ITIL-based change and release management environments.
• Ability to prioritize and manage validation activities across large-scale migration waves.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with VMware or Hyper-V environments.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as SCOM, SolarWinds, or similar enterprise monitoring platforms.
• Experience with Azure or hybrid cloud migrations.
• Knowledge of automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code tools is a plus.

This role is ideal for an engineer who combines strong Windows infrastructure expertise with automation skills to ensure migration quality, minimize downtime, and efficiently validate large-scale migration events., Ansible, Authentication, Automation, Automation Engineering, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, DNS (Domain Name System), Data Migration, Establish Priorities, Hybrid Cloud, ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), Identify Issues, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft IIS Web Server (Internet Information Services), Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Microsoft Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows System Administration, Network Connectivity, Network Operations Center, Release Management/Engineering, Reporting Skills, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Server Support, Service Level Agreement (SLA), State Laws and Regulations, System Migration, Systems Administration/Management, VMWare, Validation Documentation, Windows PowerShell

The hourly rate for this position is between $50.00-54.00 per hour., Sunrise offers ACA compliant medical coverage/dental insurance/vision insurance to all employees. We also offer Sick time benefits as required per State regulations.

Sunrise Systems was founded in 1990 with a clear vision to deliver world-class staffing service solutions in all labor categories, including IT consulting and solutions; all with the commitment to provide service that exceeds expectations and become the most trusted name in the industry. More than two and a half decades later, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the staffing industry. Combining our deep industry expertise, insights, and global resources, we have partnered with our clients to connect them with top professionals across several different industries.

We provide cost-effective Managed Staffing Solutions, Information Technology and Information Technology Consulting Services to several Fortune 500 companies and U.S. Government agencies. We provide our clients with flexible engagement models and customized products that are budget and time specific. Understanding the challenges that every business faces, we offer our services either on-site at the clients’ site or from one of our globally distributed technology centers. Our onshore and offshore development capabilities ensure that we excel at meeting customer requirements every single time.

Our collective business experience spans over two and a half decades and ranges from:

• Business, management, and technical fields
• Information technology consulting and software solutions.
• Providing strategic support for the development and long-term growth of new business ventures across several industries including but not limited to; accounting, banking, finance, and recruitment.
• Motivating technology staff and establishing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies

Sunrise Systems has a vast range of competence in:

• Design, development, and support of cloud-based solutions from simple to highly complexed
• Database administration of multi-platform applications, complex databases, and web-based environments that include all aspects of installation, planning, maintenance, and monitoring.
• Data processing and data migration
• Application re-engineering and platform migration
• Working with the Information Systems and end-user communities at all levels to resolve issues and establish consensus.

Company Size: 100 to 499 employees