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Systems Administrator — The Guardian of Stability

100% Remote | Full-Time

Why This Role Matters

Every line of code your teammates write, every deploy they push, every customer interaction that happens seamlessly — all of it rests on infrastructure that someone chose to care about deeply. That someone is the Systems Administrator.

You won't just be managing servers. You'll be the reason the team can focus on building without worrying about what's underneath. When things are quiet, it's because you made them quiet. When something breaks at 3 a.m., you're the calm voice that brings order back. This role is about stewardship — taking ownership of systems that others depend on and treating that responsibility as a point of pride.

What Your Days Will Look Like

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    Tend the infrastructure — Manage, monitor, and continuously improve our Linux and Windows server environments. You'll keep them patched, performant, and predictable so the rest of the team never has to think twice.
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    Guard the gates — Own firewall configurations, access controls, SSL certificates, and backup strategies. Security isn't a separate initiative here; it's woven into everything you touch.
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    Automate with intent — If a task needs doing more than twice, script it. Use tools like Ansible, Puppet, or plain Bash to eliminate toil and reduce human error. Your goal is to make the routine invisible.
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    Be the bridge in a crisis — When incidents happen, lead the response with clarity. Diagnose, communicate, resolve, and then write the post-mortem that ensures it doesn't happen again.
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    Document like someone's career depends on it — Because it might. Write runbooks, architecture diagrams, and knowledge-base entries that let any teammate understand what you've built and why.

Who We're Looking For

You've spent real time in production environments — not just labs. You know the difference between a textbook answer and what actually works at 2 a.m. when the monitoring dashboard turns red.

  • • Hands-on experience administering Linux servers in production (Windows experience is a bonus).
  • • Solid understanding of networking: DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls, VPNs, and load balancing.
  • • Familiarity with at least one configuration-management tool (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack).
  • • Experience with monitoring and alerting platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Datadog, or similar).
  • • Comfort with scripting — Bash, Python, or PowerShell — to automate your way out of repetitive work.

No degree is required. None. Not even preferred. We explicitly value self-taught talent and practical experience. If you learned systems administration by building a home lab, contributing to open-source projects, or keeping a startup alive with duct tape and determination — that is exactly the kind of background we respect. What matters is what you can do, not where you learned to do it.

The Kind of Person Who Belongs Here

We hire character first. Skills can be sharpened; integrity can't be taught.

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    Honesty above all — If you broke something, say so. If you don't know the answer, say that too. We'd rather hear an uncomfortable truth today than discover a hidden problem next month. Transparency is how we build trust, and trust is how we build everything else.
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    Loyalty and long-term thinking — We're not assembling contractors for a quarter. We're building a team that grows together over years. We invest heavily in the people who join us — mentorship, tools, autonomy — and we hope you're looking for a place to stay and make your mark.
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    Outcomes over appearances — We don't care about hours logged or meetings attended. We care about systems that work, documentation that helps, and teammates who make each other better.

Submit Your Information

To begin our hiring process, we collect some basic contact information to get in touch with you. This initial submission helps us understand your availability and communication preferences before we send you a personalized assessment.

Submit Your Information

After we review your submission, qualified candidates will receive an email with a personalized assessment link. We read every submission personally and thoughtfully — we're genuinely interested in getting to know you through the assessment process.

How to Apply

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Submit your information using the button above.

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Our team personally reviews every submission.

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Qualified candidates will receive an email with a personalized assessment link.

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Selected candidates proceed to a conversation about the role, the team, and where you want to go.

We're looking for the next guardian of our stability. If that sounds like your kind of work, we'd love to hear from you.

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