Senior Systems Administrator

As a member of the Infrastructure & Operations team, the Senior Systems Administrator provides lifecycle management of infrastructure services including planning, engineering, and support. This is a highly cross‑functional role ideal for an engineer who thrives outside of narrow silos and enjoys taking ownership across the entire technology stack—from on‑premise compute and storage to cloud and containerized environments. You’ll engage with business unit leaders and Information Technology teams to collaborate on solutions that drive our operational success.

• Administers and provides overall support and maintenance of infrastructure systems and network connectivity for all systems.
• Evaluates system performance on a daily basis to ensure adequate response times for production applications.
• Establishes and documents procedures to ensure data integrity including system fail-over and backup/recovery.
• Manages backup and recovery including data retention and reporting
• Conducts routine hardware and software audits of servers for compliance with established standards, policies, configuration guidelines, and procedures.
• Provides recommendations to management on changes, upgrades, and new hardware as required.
• Provides support to vendors and application teams as necessary.
• Maintains current operating systems and patch versions that comply with vendor and company requirements.
• Coordinates hardware repairs with appropriate vendors on supported platforms as necessary.
• Performs research and development on new products, technologies, and operating systems as required.
• Participates in established ITIL activities, including Change Management, Release Management, Incident Management, and Problem Management.
• Participates in the on-call rotation, providing off-hours support as required to perform necessary job functions and ensure service delivery.
• Remain current on emerging technologies and their potential application in our technology ecosystem.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required by the role and determined by management

• BA/BS degree strongly preferred, will consider comparable work experience
• 5+ years of progressive, cross-domain Infrastructure experience with a strong foundation in Linux and Windows server administration
• Proven ability to manage a diverse infrastructure stack, including hands‑on experience with:
  • Solar Winds or other infrastructure monitoring platforms
  • Ansible, such as creating playbooks and maintaining an AWX environment
  • Experience with cloud providers such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, OCI or other hyperscaler.
  • Datacenter equipment such as blade servers, SANs, and storage networking
  • Experience with load balancers such as Citrix Net Scaler or F5
  • Experience with Red Hat Openshift or other containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
  • Scripting proficiency in Bash, Python, or Power Shell

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines with services such as Git Hub or Git Lab
• Experience with Puppet, such as creating modules and developing tests
• Experience with enterprise collaboration tools such as Google Workspace and Microsoft 365

• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to clearly and concisely explain technology solutions in business terms.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, security best practices, and system hardening techniques.
• A "generalist" mindset with the ability to troubleshoot and take end-to-end ownership of projects across multiple
• infrastructure domains (compute, network, storage, cloud).
• Learns quickly and makes steady progress without the need…