Senior IT Systems Administrator (Azure Windows Admin)

Location: Onsite in El Segundo, California, United States; occasional travel to company offices and new sites of up to approximately 10%; participation in on-call rotation and occasional after-hours maintenance windows.

Salary: $140,000–$200,000 annual base salary, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops defense products powered by Coherent Distributed Networks for warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams. Founded in 2022, the company has raised $1 billion and has more than 500 employees across offices in the United States and London.

What you will do

• Architect, administer, patch, monitor, secure, and manage the lifecycle of physical and virtual Windows Server environments.
• Design and manage Azure resources across commercial and government cloud environments, including virtual machines, networking, storage, identity, monitoring, templates, and infrastructure as code.
• Administer Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, certificate services, MFA, conditional access, privileged access, and identity lifecycle processes.
• Act as technical lead and final escalation point for complex incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive permanent fixes.
• Lead infrastructure projects including site buildouts, server and cloud migrations, environment consolidations, and integration of newly acquired environments; mentor junior administrators and service desk staff.
• Maintain PowerShell automation, patching, monitoring, backups, disaster recovery, business continuity, security baselines, compliance evidence, documentation, architecture diagrams, change reviews, and infrastructure roadmap inputs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience administering enterprise Windows Server and Microsoft Azure environments.
• Deep expertise in Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and Microsoft Entra ID identity and access management, including MFA and conditional access.
• Experience designing and implementing Azure solutions with virtual machines, virtual networking, storage, role-based access control, and hybrid connectivity.
• Advanced PowerShell scripting for administration, patching, and reporting at scale.
• Experience owning patch management, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery, including restore testing and recovery objectives.
• Experience hardening systems and remediating vulnerabilities in a regulated environment such as NIST SP 800-171 or CMMC.
• Track record of leading infrastructure projects and mentoring engineers, with strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• U.S. person status required for access to CUI and export-controlled data under ITAR/EAR.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure Government, Microsoft GCC High, AWS EC2/VPC/IAM, and multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
• Experience with Okta for SSO, MFA, identity lifecycle management, and integration with Entra ID and cloud applications.
• Azure or Microsoft certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Solutions Architect Expert; AWS Solutions Architect; or security certifications such as Security+ or CISSP.
• Experience with infrastructure as code or configuration management using Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates, or Ansible.
• Experience supporting CMMC, NIST 800-171, or FedRAMP assessments, plus an active U.S. government security clearance or ability to obtain one.

Culture & Benefits

• Onsite work with a primarily sedentary computer-based role; occasional lifting of equipment up to 25 lbs and work in server or network rooms.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, FSA, HSA, life insurance, and other benefits.
• Free daily onsite lunch, fully stocked kitchen, unlimited PTO, and casual dress code.
• Relocation assistance, pre-IPO stock option grants, and planned annual bonuses.