Lead Systems Administrator (NTD)

Location: Onsite in Redmond, WA, United States; remote work is not available. Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the United States.

Base pay: $120,900–$217,650 USD, plus a potential semi-annual discretionary performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global Technology Development creates future hardware and software technology and researches North American-based technologies for hirify.global.

What you will do

• Lead System Administrators and related technical staff through work assignment, coaching, performance feedback, and operational direction.
• Provide technical leadership for enterprise systems, platforms, hardware, software, and end-user computing services across Windows, Linux, and macOS environments.
• Resolve complex infrastructure issues through advanced troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across operating systems, virtualization, storage, networking, authentication, enterprise applications, and cloud services.
• Own service operations, reliability, capacity monitoring, incident response, recovery procedures, runbooks, service queues, and on-call support.
• Lead infrastructure projects, technology evaluations, vendor coordination, budget planning, and cross-functional delivery with engineering, security, business, and hirify.global partner organizations.
• Improve security and compliance through patching, hardening, access-control reviews, vulnerability remediation, logging, monitoring, audits, and documented change management.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in systems administration, infrastructure operations, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience leading or managing systems administration teams, including work assignment, coaching, performance feedback, team development, and delivery accountability.
• Advanced Microsoft Windows and Linux administration and troubleshooting experience, with working knowledge of enterprise macOS.
• Strong understanding of networking, storage, virtualization, identity and access management, authentication, security, backup, disaster recovery, and high availability.
• Experience resolving complex technical problems involving multiple variables, dependencies, and business considerations.
• Proficiency with automation and scripting such as PowerShell, Bash, Python, or equivalent; experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or orchestration.
• Knowledge of security operations including patching, hardening, access control, vulnerability remediation, logging, monitoring, and incident response.
• Experience coordinating technical initiatives across teams, stakeholders, vendors, and service providers, including contracts and technology budgets or budget planning.
• Experience with virtualized, cloud-hosted, containerized, or hybrid infrastructure; familiarity with ITSM practices and tools such as ServiceNow or Jira Service Desk.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and provide after-hours support when required.
• Relevant certification in Microsoft, Linux, cloud, virtualization, networking, security, or IT service management.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive workplace focused on collaboration, accountability, customer service, continuous learning, and ownership.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), and paid time off.
• Potential semi-annual discretionary performance bonus in addition to base pay.
• Onsite work in Redmond with required participation in on-call and after-hours support when needed.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.