[Remote] ServiceNow Operations System Administator

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NetImpact Strategies is hiring a Senior Operations System Administrator to support ServiceNow platform operations for a federal agency. The role focuses on infrastructure troubleshooting and maintenance across MID Servers and supporting systems, security controls, recovery, and service restoration.

Responsibilities

• Provide early or late-window operational ownership for ServiceNow platform-support infrastructure, with emphasis on MID Servers, supporting VMs/operating systems, connectivity, queues, maintenance, and continuity
• Perform deep troubleshooting, preventative/corrective maintenance, performance monitoring, configuration management, and restoration across ServiceNow operational dependencies
• Investigate MID Server availability, ECC queue conditions, authentication/connectivity failures, certificate/credential issues, resource capacity, and infrastructure anomalies; coordinate with platform, network, cloud, identity, and security teams
• Execute and document planned maintenance, patching, restart/recovery, backup/restore, continuity, and disaster-recovery activities in accordance with approved change and security processes
• Provide Tier 2/Tier 3 support for incidents, problems, catalog tasks, and platform requests; maintain accurate ServiceNow records, SLA evidence, restoration notes, and handoffs
• Implement and monitor infrastructure and platform security controls, log/audit requirements, privileged/service-account dependencies, and operational evidence; escalate suspicious activity immediately
• Support new integrations and platform changes by validating runtime prerequisites, certificates, network paths, service accounts, MID selection/capacity, and production readiness
• Coordinate ServiceNow and infrastructure vendor support cases and preserve diagnostic evidence needed for root cause and problem management
• Maintain operations procedures, queue-management instructions, recovery steps, environment baselines, asset/dependency information, and transition documentation
• Provide structured handoff to/from the early operations team so unresolved incidents, changes, security actions, and integration conditions retain clear ownership across the service window

Skills

• Five or more years providing operational support to enterprise ServiceNow implementations, including complex troubleshooting and production support
• Strong experience with ServiceNow MID Servers plus Windows/Linux system administration, VM operations, networking/connectivity fundamentals, certificates, authentication, queues, and service accounts
• Experience with configuration/change management, preventive maintenance, security controls, backups/recovery, incident/problem management, and off-hours production support
• Experience coordinating ServiceNow Support cases and cross-team troubleshooting in a shared enterprise environment
• CSA Required (Certified ServiceNow Administrator)
• U.S. citizenship and ability to satisfy High Risk IT background-investigation and sensitive-information requirements
• CSA strongly preferred or required where mandated by the applicable labor category
• Federal consulting or financial-regulatory experience
• Experience with CyberArk or equivalent privileged-account management, Splunk or similar monitoring, and ServiceNow Discovery/ITOM
• Experience supporting continuity exercises and production releases in multi-vendor environments

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, & vision insurance that starts the first of the month after you join the team
• 401(k) Plan – Immediately vested employer contributions; no matching required
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) policy
• One (1) additional day of paid wellness leave per calendar year
• Ten (10) federal holidays
• Pet Insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Internal training programs
• Company-sponsored industry certifications
• Dynamic and collaborative work environment
• Team building activities, community volunteering, quarterly HQ days, wellness events, happy hours, family fun events, and more
• Remote work arrangement

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