Lead Systems Admin
Overview:
As Lead Systems Administrator, you will oversee and optimize our complex infrastructure across on-prem, virtual, and cloud environments to ensure reliability, security, and performance. You'll guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and drive automation and best practices in a fast-paced, cross-functional setting. The role supports critical business applications at a global electrical grid technology company, with a focus on scalability and resilience. You'll work closely with engineering, security, and product teams to enable smooth deployments and rapid incident response. Compensation / Benefits 401K with 6% match + 3% retirement contributionannual bonus based on company and individual performance 10% PTO + 10 days5 sick days16 paid holidays including 9 during Christmashealth insurance
Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and maintain hybrid infrastructure (on-prem, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM; AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Manage Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and core network services for reliable authentication and connectivity
- Develop automation/orchestration with PowerShell, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef; container tooling (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Tune storage and file services (SAN/NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, RAID; NFS/SMB) to meet performance/capacity needs
- Administer databases and messaging (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL; Exchange/Office 365)
- Manage web/app servers (IIS, Apache, Nginx) and ensure secure, performant delivery and load balancing
- Design HA, DR, and capacity planning to meet RTO/RPO objectives
- Lead security hardening, IAM, VPNs, firewalls, monitoring; drive patching and vulnerability remediation
- Lead incident response and change management with ITSM tools (ServiceNow/JIRA); post-incident analyses
- Mentor system admins and SREs; establish runbooks and best practices
- Collaborate with engineering/security/product teams for deployments, migrations, onboarding
- Evaluate new technologies to improve scalability, cost-efficiency, and maturity
Key requirements:
- 7+ years of systems administration with leadership or technical lead experience
- Deep hands-on with Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell, Bash scripting
- Proven virtualization and cloud experience (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM; AWS, Azure, GCP) including IaC (Terraform)
- Experience with containers/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and config mgmt tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Strong storage/networking knowledge (SAN/NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, RAID, NFS/SMB, TCP/IP, VPN)
- Experience with SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL; familiarity with Exchange/Office 365 Experience administering web servers (IIS, Apache, Nginx) and core network services (DNS, DHCP)
- Security hardening, IAM, vulnerability management, and compliance controls
- Proficiency in HA, clustering, DR planning, capacity planning, performance tuning
- Familiarity with ITSM tools (ServiceNow/JIRA) and incident/change management
- Excellent communication, documentation, mentoring; capable of leading cross-functional projects
- Willingness to work on-call rotations and respond to incidentscommunicationmentoringcross-functional collaboration
- Active Directory
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