Mission-Driven IT Systems Administrator (Plant & Office)

Clover Sonoma; Petaluma (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Clover Sonoma is seeking an IT Systems Administrator to maintain secure, reliable technology across its Petaluma office, dairy plant, and distribution facilities. The role involves daily system administration, troubleshooting, and recovery, collaborating with IT and operations teams to keep manufacturing and distribution systems available.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Windows Server, AD, virtualization, storage, backups, and security, plus the ability to document procedures

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT, CS, engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on systems administration or infrastructure support.
• Experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, virtualization, and storage.
• Experience with backups, restoration, disaster-recovery testing, identity and access, endpoint management, patching, and security controls.
• Ability to document work, follow change procedures, and communicate with technical and nontechnical teams.
• Ability to work onsite, travel among Petaluma-area facilities, and provide after-hours support.

Responsibilities

• Administer Windows Server, VMware, storage, and AWS infrastructure; monitor system health and capacity.
• Manage Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, file permissions, and printing; onboard/offboard users with MFA and collaboration tools.
• Manage backups, DR, failover, and continuity; verify backups and test recovery with IT leadership.
• Install updates through change procedures, schedule maintenance, validate, and rollback.
• Maintain endpoint protection, secure configurations, vulnerability remediation, and security logs.
• Monitor system availability, performance, and logs; investigate alerts and escalate risks.
• Administer SQL Server and support ERP/web services with owners and providers.
• Resolve incidents affecting manufacturing, warehousing, shipping, and office ops; document root causes.
• Maintain system/network documentation, asset inventories, licenses, and procedures.
• Use PowerShell to automate tasks and improve processes.
• Work with vendors on troubleshooting, repairs, upgrades, migrations; after-hours support as needed.

Skills

Windows Server

Active Directory

Group Policy

DNS

DHCP

Virtualization

Storage

Backups

Disaster Recovery

Security Controls

Multifactor Authentication

PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

VMware

Microsoft 365

Entra ID

Microsoft SQL Server

SAN storage

Veeam

Carbonite

Cisco Meraki

Job description

Clover Sonoma is seeking an IT Systems Administrator to maintain secure, reliable technology across its Petaluma office, dairy plant, and distribution facilities. The role involves daily system administration, troubleshooting, and recovery, collaborating with IT and operations teams to keep manufacturing and distribution systems available.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Windows Server, AD, virtualization, storage, backups, and security, plus the ability to document procedures