Department: General & Admin
Location: Boulder, CO
Compensation: $115,000 - $150,000 / year
Description
Flatirons Solutions is hiring a Senior Systems Administrator with advanced skills and experience with Defense workloads.
Must be a US Citizen.
As a Senior Systems Administrator, you play a crucial role in managing and maintaining our customer-facing IT infrastructure. You are responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and optimization of systems, ensuring their reliability, security, and performance. You have extensive experience in system administration, a strong understanding of networking and cloud technologies, and a passion for problem-solving.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist with design of long-term strategic vision for the IT environments.
- Participate in product evaluations given by vendors for potential implementation.
- Participate and provide expert guidance/response for all audits such as ISO27001, ISO9001, ISO 27701, CMMC, NIST etc.
- Advise management on hosting budget for all infrastructure-related expenditures.
- Design, deploy, and maintain the company's Hosting IT infrastructure, including servers, networks, storage, and virtualization environments.
- Manage and monitor system performance, capacity, and availability to ensure optimal performance and uptime.
- Implement and enforce security best practices to protect company and/or customer data and systems from potential threats and vulnerabilities.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to servers, networks, and applications in a timely manner.
- Collaborate with other IT teams and departments to support business initiatives and projects.
- Plan and execute system upgrades, patches, and migrations with minimal disruption to operations.
- Design backup strategies for all systems.
- Develop and maintain documentation, standard operating procedures, and policies related to system administration.
- Mentor and provide oversight to other system administrators, sharing knowledge and best practices.
- Serve as a point of escalation for other systems administrators.
- Perform planning, configuration, deployment, and maintenance-work associated with the Flatirons Solutions production and development Hosting environments.
- Perform systems administration tasks associated with implementation, migration and deployments utilizing remote hands.
- Quickly and efficiently troubleshoot simple and complex issues to provide outstanding support for customer and internal needs.
- Identify areas for process and efficiency improvement within systems operations; recommend solutions and assist in overseeing implementation.
- Actively facilitate continuous improvement with a focus towards efficiency, value, and improved stability, security and privacy
- Ensure all necessary operational processes and procedures are carried out with a high level of attention to detail, expediency and on-time delivery.
- Create and maintain system information diagrams and detailed documentation.
- Monitor various systems capacity and provide analytics & forecasts for added or reduced capacity as required.
- Use strong communication skills (both written and verbal) to direct with precision and clarity remote-hands technicians over the phone to execute deployment, break-fix, and upgrade plans accurately.
- Understands and adheres to all requirements of the Integrated Management Systems (IMS), which includes Quality, Information Security, and Privacy.
- Other duties as may be assigned.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Proficiency in virtualization technologies such as VMware or Hyper-V.
- Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, etc.)
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure
- Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
- Solid communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Industry certifications such as MCSE, RHCE, CCNA, or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator preferred.
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
- Knowledge of scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for automation is a plus.
- Experience with cybersecurity practices and tools preferred.
Preferred location Denver/Boulder area, but open to fully remote work for the right candidate.
