Sr. Systems Administrator; Systems
Listed on 2026-10-06
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IT/Tech
Systems Administrator, IT Support
Summary:
The Enterprise Systems and Employee Technology (ESET) team makes sure Cosm's employees have the tools they need to work quickly and efficiently: computers, SaaS services, and software. This team owns zero-touch provisioning, MDM, and device deployments across the organization, administers Cosm's portfolio of 100+ SaaS applications, maintains and optimizes the employee onboarding/offboarding lifecycle, and keeps Cosm's growing Okta deployment running smoothly.
This role reports to the Director of Enterprise Systems and Employee Technology.
Responsibilities:
- Own Cosm's Okta deployment: configuration, integrations, Workflows, and the identity roadmap as the environment scales.
- Design and maintain automated joiner-mover-leaver processes across the full employee lifecycle, in partnership with People Operations.
- Build and continuously improve zero-touch provisioning and device deployment across all Cosm locations and platforms.
- Administer Cosm's portfolio of 100+ SaaS applications: tenant configuration, SSO and SCIM integrations, entitlement models, and lifecycle management.
- Administer and optimize Apple Business Manager, Microsoft Intune, and Jamf, keeping the endpoint fleet current, compliant, and consistently configured.
- Run recurring account and access reviews, and produce evidence supporting [NIST CSF 2.0 / SOX ITGC] audit requirements.
- Automate routine administration through scripting and vendor APIs, reducing manual toil across the team.
- Partner with Service Management on hardware inventory and asset lifecycle across all locations.
- Act as the escalation point for identity, SaaS, and endpoint issues escalated by the Service Desk - resolving root causes and reducing recurrence through automation, configuration, and knowledge transfer.
- Create and maintain technical documentation and runbooks, and raise what the Service Desk can resolve independently through training and self-service enablement.
- Mentor teammates on identity and endpoint management practices, and act as a technical resource across the IT organization.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years in corporate IT, with demonstrated depth in identity and endpoint management. Equivalent practical experience is welcome in place of a degree.
- Hands-on Okta administration experience, including Workflows for non-trivial automation use cases.
- 3+ years implementing and managing modern identity standards - SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SSO, MFA, and SCIM provisioning.
- Experience with an Identity Governance & Administration platform and with entitlement and access review design (Okta IGA, Sailpoint, etc).
- 3+ years managing macOS and Windows at scale with modern MDM (Intune, JAMF, Kandji/Iru, etc).
- Demonstrated experience building or maintaining zero-touch provisioning in a production environment.
- Working knowledge of Active Directory and Entra .
- Comfortable scripting to automate routine work (Power Shell, Bash, or Python) and integrating systems via vendor APIs.
- Solid grounding in core IT fundamentals - DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, SMB, NFS, and certificate management.
- Strong communicator and self-starter with a methodical approach to troubleshooting and the ability to prioritize a varied workload independently or as part of a team.
Preferred
Skills:
- Okta Certified Administrator (Level
2) or Okta Certified Professional. - Experience managing Okta configuration as code through Terraform, Pulumi, or a similar platform HIGHLY preferred
- Jamf 200 certification.
- Experience with Zero Trust, SASE, or DLP solutions (Zscaler, Cloudflare, or similar).
- Experience with additional device management platforms (Kandji, Autopilot).
- Familiarity with modern ITSM platforms (Service Now preferred).
- Experience supporting SaaS license management, renewals, and utilization reporting.
The annualized salary range for this position in California is $130,000 to $145,000. The base pay offered will factor in internal equity and may also vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and relevant experience, among other factors
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