Senior Systems Administrator

Accountabilities

• Design, manage, and optimize AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Architect highly available cloud solutions that support API-driven and data-intensive applications while implementing infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Establish and maintain operational best practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, and disaster recovery planning.
• Implement cloud security best practices, including identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, and access controls.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and overall platform architecture.
• Provide technical leadership by mentoring team members, serving as a systems expert, and maintaining comprehensive technical documentation and operational runbooks.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in systems administration, cloud infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a related technical role.
• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS services, including EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and related cloud technologies.
• Solid Linux systems administration experience and strong scripting or automation skills using Bash, Python, or similar languages.
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and supporting secure, production-grade, customer-facing infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of networking, cloud architecture, security principles, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience working independently in remote, distributed teams with excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• AWS certifications, experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms, or compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or HIPAA are considered strong advantages.

Benefits

• Full remote position within the United States.
• Flexible working hours to support work-life balance.
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package.
• High level of ownership and influence over infrastructure strategy and technical decisions.
• Opportunity to build and scale cloud platforms supporting real-time customer applications.
• Collaborative engineering culture focused on innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.