Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
7+ years of progressive systems administration experience
5+ years administering VMware vSphere or similar virtualization product
5+ years cloud experience (AWS and/or Azure, plus M365)
Experience with backup replication and restore validation (Commvault preferred)
Setup and maintenance of enterprise storage platforms (SAN/NAS)
Willingness to work 4+ days per week in Jupiter Office, including off-hours availability.
Responsibilities
Support and maintain all Server Operating Systems and services
Ensure system patching, current backups, and performance tuning analysis
Conduct root cause analysis on incidents for hardware and software
Automate Virtual Machine provisioning and configuration
Manage data center operations, including rack and stack of servers
Administer cloud portals such as AWS and Microsoft Azure
Set up and configure new cloud environments; recommend best practices.
Benefits
Highly competitive base salary
Profit sharing bonus
Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
401k
Full Job Description
Under the general direction of IT leadership, the Senior System Administrator performs a variety of technical tasks in the area of computer systems and networks.
Summary of Job Functions
Participate in supporting and maintaining all Server Operating Systems and services
Maintain system patching, ensure current backups, analyze systems for performance tuning
Perform root cause analysis on incidents on supported systems hardware and OS/software
Increase/improve automation in the areas of Virtual Machine provisioning & configuration
Data center operations - rack and stack new servers & storage, cable management for storage and networking
Ability to administer cloud portals including Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure
Set up and configure new cloud-based environments; must be able to recommend best practices
Knowledge of lift and shift migration techniques for workloads from on-premises to cloud
Collaborate with research and infrastructure teams on high-performance and high-density compute environments
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or another related field
7+ years of progressive systems administration experience in enterprise environments
5+ years administering an Enterprise Virtualization product (VMware vSphere preferred)
5+ Years Cloud Knowledge (AWS and/or Azure plus M365)
Experience with Backup replication, air-gap strategies, and restore validation (Commvault preferred)
Setup and maintenance experience with Enterprise storage platforms (SAN/NAS) - Pure Storage, Dell/EMC Isilon, or similar
Ability to work in Jupiter Office 4+ Days per week (off-hours availability required for planned maintenance windows)
Preferred Skills and Previous Experience
Experience with VMware Horizon or another VDI solution
Active/active (hot/hot) data center architecture - RPO/RTO planning, workload distribution, and failover testing
Zerto/VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) or equivalent - automated failover and failback orchestration across data centers
Data center systems management - Dell hardware experience preferred
Windows Server / Active Directory experience
Linux experience (Debian/Ubuntu preferred)
High Performance Computing (HPC) - cluster design, NUMA tuning, low-latency networking
Containerization experience (Kubernetes or Docker)
Security-conscious approach to systems administration - hardening, least privilege, patch discipline, and familiarity with endpoint protection platforms (CrowdStrike preferred)
Network security tooling experience - Zscaler or similar
