Hiring for System Administrator - Boca Raton, FL - Full-time

About the role

System Administrator position located in Boca Raton, FL. Full‑time, onsite (5 days per week). Interview process includes a phone screen followed by an on‑site panel interview. The client seeks a highly skilled System Administrator to serve as the primary administrator for backup, recovery, and cloud infrastructure across on‑prem and cloud environments, focusing on Veeam, vCenter, and Microsoft Azure to improve, optimize, and validate data protection and high‑availability architecture, lead disaster‑recovery planning and testing, and support business continuity.

Responsibilities

• Continuously improve and evolve the company's disaster‑recovery environment across data centers and Azure; lead DR planning, runbooks, and failover testing, engaging Systems, Network, Database, and Security teams; configure fault‑tolerant features and maintain RTO and RPO documentation.
• Design, implement, and optimize the Veeam Backup & Replication environment, including job architecture, repositories, replication, retention and immutability policies, and storage usage.
• Administer the VMware vSphere / vCenter environment as it relates to data protection, including replication and recovery validation, along with supporting SAN/NAS storage (NetApp, Tintri), deduplication appliances (ExaGrid), and immutable backup repositories.
• Validate backup integrity through regular restore testing and automated verification; confirm all critical systems are covered, configurations follow best practices, and gaps are remediated.
• Contribute to the company's business continuity program, supporting business impact analysis, recovery strategies for critical business functions, and ongoing maintenance and testing of business continuity plans as infrastructure and systems change.
• Manage and expand the company's Microsoft Azure footprint, building out cloud infrastructure to support business continuity, backup, and DR targets while maintaining storage, access control, and cost governance as adoption grows.
• Monitor backup health, capacity, and SLA compliance; perform root cause analysis on failures and implement preventive measures.
• Support compliance and audit requirements related to data protection, backup retention, and recoverability, including evidence gathering and remediation of audit findings.
• Automate verification and reporting with PowerShell; maintain runbooks and documentation; serve as the escalation point for backup and recovery issues.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for data protection, storage management, and recovery operations.

Required Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of systems administration experience in a hybrid (cloud and on‑premises) environment.
• Hands‑on production experience designing and managing Veeam Backup & Replication and VMware vSphere / vCenter environments.
• Administrator‑level experience with Microsoft Azure (resources, access control, storage, cost governance).
• Solid understanding of backup and disaster‑recovery concepts, including RPO and RTO, replication, snapshots, immutability, and DR testing.
• Practical PowerShell scripting skills; working knowledge of Windows Server and enterprise storage (NetApp and/or Tintri preferred).
• Strong problem‑solving skills, ability to prioritize effectively, and clear written and verbal communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE)
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP) or Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ‑104)