Remote Linux Systems Administrator - IT Operations

Randstad Digital Americas; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 52,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental and vision coverage

401K plan

Short-term disability

Life insurance

Job summary

Randstad Digital is seeking a Systems Administrator to maintain Linux-based servers, virtualization, and directory services while supporting day-to-day IT operations. The role focuses on reliability, security, and incident response across Linux and Windows environments.

Responsibilities include lifecycle management, backups, disaster recovery readiness, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure stable, scalable services for business applications.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in IT Operations or systems administration.
• Strong Linux administration and Windows Server experience.
• Experience with Active Directory, DNS, and Group Policy.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with IT Operations team to support infrastructure availability and performance.
• Maintain procedures and knowledge base for supported systems and tasks.
• Review security notifications, apply updates, and remediation steps.
• Monitor performance, identify trends, and communicate findings for capacity planning.
• Proactively monitor systems and provide preemptive fixes to avoid failures.
• Support disaster recovery readiness through backups and restore testing.
• Troubleshoot software, hardware, OS, and network issues with internal teams and vendors.
• Evaluate new tools and hardware to improve monitoring, automation, and security.
• Maintain security controls, access, patching, and compliance requirements.

Skills

Active Directory

Agile

Ansible

Bash

Python

DNS

Linux

Windows Server

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

PowerShell

VMware

Hyper-V

Job description

Randstad Digital is seeking a Systems Administrator to maintain Linux-based servers, virtualization, and directory services while supporting day-to-day IT operations. The role focuses on reliability, security, and incident response across Linux and Windows environments.

Responsibilities include lifecycle management, backups, disaster recovery readiness, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure stable, scalable services for business applications.