Remote Systems Administrator: Cloud, Automation & Security

SitusAMC; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO & holidays

401K plan

Medical insurance

Job summary

SitusAMC is seeking an Associate, Systems Administrator to join our remote, full-time team. You will manage server and platform infrastructure, apply hardening standards, handle patch cadence, and support day-to-day operations with senior staff.

The role emphasizes automation (PowerShell, Python, Terraform), incident response, backup recovery, and collaboration with security. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of enterprise systems experience, AWS/Azure skills, and the ability to work

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of industry or relevant experience, typically at a Senior Analyst or Analyst level role or external equivalent.
• Experience in Systems Administration or a related field, including hands-on administration of enterprise platforms in a production environment.
• Hands-on administration experience with AWS and Azure services, including compute, storage, networking, and identity.
• Experience implementing infrastructure solutions from defined requirements with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Serve as escalation point (Tier 2/3) for server, platform, and infrastructure issues referred by the service desk and Analyst-level administrators, escalating to senior staff or vendors where required.
• Support infrastructure workstreams on site and project development efforts, providing solution design input, effort estimates, and technical risk assessment during the planning phase.
• Gather and document system requirements across project teams and support the infrastructure build, cutover, and transition of new products and services into post-launch operations throughout the life of the product or service.
• Maintain the patch and release cadence for assigned platforms; author change records, including risk assessment and rollback plans, and present them at the Change Advisory Board.
• Administer the Kiteworks platform, including secure transfer policy configuration and enforcement, vendor escalation, and escalated end-user support.
• Ability to communicate effectively with your technical peers as well as non-technical staff.
• Maintain build standards, hardening baselines, runbooks, and technical procedures for assigned platforms, and contribute updates as systems and configurations change.
• Perform trouble resolution fixes remotely or in person, including installing and upgrading software, installing hardware, and configuring systems and applications.
• Provide day-to-day guidance to Analyst-level administrators and review their work for technical accuracy and standards compliance.
• Configure and maintain monitoring, alerting, and performance baselines for business-critical systems, and perform capacity planning and tuning to prevent delays and outages. Other activities as may be assigned by your manager.
• Support restoration efforts on Severity 1 and 2 infrastructure incidents; contribute to root cause analyses and complete assigned corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain automation and orchestration scripts (PowerShell, Python, Terraform) that standardize routine administration tasks.
• Maintain backup and recovery configuration for assigned platforms, perform periodic restore testing, and support disaster recovery and business continuity exercises.
• Track lifecycle and end-of-life status for assigned platforms, remediate unsupported versions, and provide input into upgrade planning and vendor sizing and renewals.
• Administer privileged access to server and platform infrastructure and enforce security baselines in partnership with Information Security.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and keep on-call runbooks and escalation paths current.

Skills

Server administration

Cloud administration

Automation scripting

Security compliance

On-call readiness

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Kiteworks

PowerShell

Python

Terraform

Windows Server

Linux OS

Job description

SitusAMC is seeking an Associate, Systems Administrator to join our remote, full-time team. You will manage server and platform infrastructure, apply hardening standards, handle patch cadence, and support day-to-day operations with senior staff.

The role emphasizes automation (PowerShell, Python, Terraform), incident response, backup recovery, and collaboration with security. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of enterprise systems experience, AWS/Azure skills, and the ability to work