Hybrid Senior Systems Administrator - VMware & Linux

Conservice; Utah; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Conservice is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to own day-to-day health and long-term direction of virtualization, compute, and storage platforms. The role is hands-on across VMware vSphere, Windows Server, Linux, and automation, with opportunities to shape resilience and container workloads.

You will work autonomously to drive root-cause analysis across hypervisor, guest OS, storage, and network boundaries, mentor teammates, and contribute durable documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Systems or Infrastructure Administrator in an enterprise environment.
• Strong hands-on experience administering VMware vSphere at scale.
• Solid Linux administration experience (RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise SAN/NAS storage — performance troubleshooting.
• Practical scripting experience in PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Zabbix, PRTG, Grafana/Prometheus).
• Experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, and Kerberos/service account administration.
• Track record of working independently through ambiguous, multi-step technical problems.
• Strong written and verbal communication; responsive to teammates and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain enterprise VMware vSphere environments (ESXi hosts, vCenter, HA/DRS clusters) supporting 500+ VMs.
• Administer both Windows Server and Linux systems in production — patching, hardening, performance tuning, and troubleshooting across the fleet.
• Manage Active Directory, including GPO management and service account security (gMSA, Kerberos authentication).
• Manage enterprise SAN/NAS storage platforms (e.g., Qumulo, HPE Nimble/Alletra), including capacity planning, performance troubleshooting, and migrations.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting across compute and storage layers, ensuring issues are caught proactively rather than reported by end users.
• Implement and manage Veeam or equivalent backup and DR solutions, including regular recovery testing.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans, runbooks, and procedures.
• Write and maintain automation in PowerShell/PowerCLI and Bash across mixed Windows/Linux environments.
• Provide systems-level support for database infrastructure (VM sizing, storage and latency troubleshooting) as needed.
• Independently diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues with minimal oversight.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to documentation and knowledge transfer.
• Collaborate with network and security teams, communicating status and blockers proactively.
• Help the team grow its container footprint over time as workloads evolve.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Windows Server

Linux administration

Active Directory

Scripting

Monitoring/Observability

Backup/DR planning

Container exposure

Tools

VMware vCenter

ESXi

PowerShell

PowerCLI

Bash

Datadog

Zabbix

Grafana/Prometheus

Job description

Conservice is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to own day-to-day health and long-term direction of virtualization, compute, and storage platforms. The role is hands-on across VMware vSphere, Windows Server, Linux, and automation, with opportunities to shape resilience and container workloads.

You will work autonomously to drive root-cause analysis across hypervisor, guest OS, storage, and network boundaries, mentor teammates, and contribute durable documentation.