Lead Systems Admin - Hybrid

CyberCoders, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with matching

Annual performance bonus

Paid time off

Sick leave

Paid holidays

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Job summary

CyberCoders, Inc. seeks an experienced Lead Systems Administrator to oversee infrastructure across on‑prem, virtual, and cloud environments.

You will drive architecture decisions, mentor engineers, implement automation, and ensure high availability, security, and performance for business applications and services. The role requires 7+ years of systems experience, strong AD/PowerShell skills, and proficiency with virtualization and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of systems administration experience with progressive responsibility.
• Succinct leadership or technical lead experience is expected.
• Deep hands-on experience with AD, GPO, PowerShell, and Bash scripting.
• Experience with virtualization (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, and maintenance across on-prem, virtual, and cloud environments.

Skills

Active Directory

PowerShell

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

VMware vSphere

Azure

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT

RHCE

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

Tools

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

KVM

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Terraform

Job description

Title: Lead Systems Administrator

Salary: $115,000 - $155,000

Location: Hybrid - In-Office 3 days a week

Founded in 1911, this global electrical equipment and grid technology organization employs approximately 1,000 to 5,000 people worldwide, with more than 2,000 employees based in its Chicago headquarters and manufacturing campus. For over a century, the company has designed and manufactured advanced switching, protection, and control solutions for electric power transmission and distribution systems, helping utilities and industrial customers build safer, more reliable, and intelligent electrical infrastructure.

The Chicago location serves as the company's primary innovation, engineering, and manufacturing hub, where teams develop and produce medium and high voltage switching equipment, smart grid automation systems, energy storage solutions, and power quality technologies. This facility also houses advanced research and development capabilities focused on grid modernization, automation, and resiliency technologies designed to support a more sustainable and outage resistant power grid.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead Systems Administrator to oversee and optimize our infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. The Lead Systems Administrator will drive architecture decisions, mentor engineers, implement automation and best practices, and ensure high availability, security, and performance of systems supporting business applications and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, and maintenance of infrastructure across on-premises, virtual (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Manage and administer Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and core TCP/IP network services to ensure reliable authentication, name resolution and connectivity.
• Develop, review and maintain automation and orchestration using PowerShell, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and container tooling (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Implement and tune storage solutions (SAN/NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, RAID) and file services (NFS, SMB/CIFS) to meet performance and capacity requirements.
• Administer database and messaging infrastructure including SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and email platforms (Exchange/Office 365).
• Manage web and application servers (IIS, Apache, Nginx) and ensure secure, performant application delivery and load balancing.
• Design and operate high availability and clustering solutions, disaster recovery plans and capacity planning to meet RTO/RPO objectives.
• Implement and maintain security hardening, IAM, VPNs, firewall integration, and monitoring to protect systems and data; lead patching and vulnerability remediation efforts.
• Lead incident response, problem management and change processes using ITSM tools such as ServiceNow or JIRA, and produce post-incident analyses and remediation plans.
• Drive performance tuning, benchmarking and proactive monitoring to optimize system reliability and resource utilization.
• Mentor and guide system administrators and site reliability engineers, establishing operational runbooks, standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and product teams to support deployments, migrations, and new service onboarding.
• Evaluate new technologies and provide recommendations to improve scalability, cost-efficiency and operational maturity.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience, or relevant certifications (e.g., RHCE, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator).
• 7+ years of systems administration experience with progressive responsibility, including leadership or technical lead roles.
• Deep hands‑on experience with Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell and Bash scripting for automation and operational efficiency.
• Proven expertise in virtualization (VMware vSphere, Hyper‑V, KVM) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) including infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform).
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Strong storage and networking knowledge (SAN/NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, RAID, NFS, SMB/CIFS, TCP/IP, VPN).
• Operational experience with databases and messaging systems: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL; familiarity with Exchange/Office 365 administration.
• Experience administering web servers (IIS, Apache, Nginx) and core network services (DNS, DHCP).
• Demonstrated ability in security hardening, IAM, vulnerability management, and compliance controls.
• Skilled in high availability, clustering, disaster recovery planning and execution, capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow and/or JIRA for ITSM, and strong incident/change management experience.
• Excellent communication, documentation and mentoring skills; able to lead cross‑functional projects and drive operational improvements.
• Ability to work flexible hours for on‑call rotations and respond to critical incidents as needed.

Benefits

• - 401K with up to 6% matching and an additional 3% added even if nothing has been contributed
• - Bonus paid annually based on company and individual performance - 10%
• - 10 days of PTO
• - 5 Sick Days
• - 16 Paid Holidays 9 of which are during the Christmas holiday season.
• - Health Insurance
• - Vision Insurance
• - Dental Insurance