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# Web and Application Administrator

- **Company:** Encode, Inc.
- **Location:** Montgomery County, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Applications Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Linux, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Internet Information Services (IIS), WildFly (JBoss AS), Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Servers, Nginx, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Windows PowerShell, Cloud Services, Ansible, Software Deployment, SQL Databases, SSL Certificate Management, Scripting, Enterprise Software Applications, SC Clearance, Build Management, Puppet, Terraform
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/web-and-application-administrator-amc-encode-inc-6342693

## About the Role

* Mid to senior level SQL web and application tier administration experience utilizing mid-tier tools such as IIS, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, or JBOSS
 * Basic system administration knowledge of Linux and Windows Server operating systems
 * Security+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and computing environment certification (i.e. MCSA - SQL Server, etc.)
 * Strong verbal and written communication skills
 * Experience effectively managing multiple large-scale projects
 * Experience automating routine administrative tasks desired
 * Understanding of network, storage, server, and application technologies
 * Strong knowledge of automation concepts, tools, and scripting languages (PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
 * Strong verbal and written communication skills
 * Active Secret clearance
 * Bachelor's Degree

## Description

* Serve as a Web and Application subject matter expert (SME) for evaluating customer's current application architecture and develop a new architecture to be deployed in Azure and utilizing cloud native database services as much as possible (PaaS vs IaaS)
 * Collaborate with internal and external parties to transform high-level technical objectives into comprehensive technical requirements
 * Build and deploy web and application infrastructure for customer applications
 * Provide sustainment of customer web and application tier systems to include installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, hardening of systems per STIG guidance and industry best practices, and SSL certificate management
 * Work closely with customer developers for regular project releases and code deployments
 * Provide troubleshooting assistance for any reported issues
 * Assist with identifying and planning potential new cloud services, features, and capabilities
 * Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a wide variety of network, storage, compute, and mid-tier technologies


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