Senior Systems Administrator

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Systems Administrator based in United States.

As a Senior Systems Administrator, you will play a key role in designing, maintaining, and scaling a modern cloud infrastructure that supports mission-critical business operations. This is an exciting opportunity for a technical leader who enjoys building resilient, secure, and highly available systems in a fast-paced remote environment. You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, and security teams to optimize cloud platforms, automate infrastructure, and drive operational excellence. The role offers significant ownership over infrastructure strategy while enabling innovation through scalable cloud technologies. If you are passionate about AWS, automation, and system reliability, this position provides the opportunity to make a lasting impact while working with a collaborative and forward-thinking team.

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

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• 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

• Fully remote position within the United States.
• Flexible working hours to support work-life balance.

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• 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.
  
  

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