Senior Systems Administrator — Build Scalable IT & Security

Aspinity; Illinois; On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

401k with match

Free Tovala Smart Oven and discountedT

Job summary

We’re Tovala, a food-tech company reinventing home cooking with hardware, software, and fresh food delivery. We seek a Senior Systems Administrator to own our internal IT environment, from endpoint management to network security, helping scale our modern IT function and protect the workforce.

You’ll work hands-on with macOS, Linux, and Windows endpoints, both on-prem and cloud-adjacent, shaping policies and improving reliability across offices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience administering corporate IT environments.
• Experience supporting macOS, Linux, and Windows endpoints at scale, including MDM, patch management, endpoint security, and device lifecycle management.
• Hands-on experience administering on-prem Linux servers (Ubuntu/Debian), including CLI, shell scripting, networking, hardening, and infrastructure automation/CI/CD.
• Experience evaluating, selecting, implementing, and administering IT platforms, rather than only operating established tooling.
• Strong networking experience across firewalls, switches, wireless, VPNs, and office connectivity; Ubiquiti/UniFi experience strongly preferred.
• Experience administering Google Workspace or similar identity platforms, with knowledge of IAM, email security, EDR/XDR, and security best practices.
• Experience responding to endpoint security incidents and partnering on broader security initiatives.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across hardware, operating systems, networking, identity, and SaaS, with a customer-first approach to employee IT support.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for employee IT support, resolving hardware, software, networking, and account issues.
• Administer and maintain our corporate endpoint environment across macOS, iOS, Windows and Linux devices.
• Evaluate, select, implement, and operate modern endpoint management and related IT tools.
• Develop scalable processes for device provisioning, inventory management, onboarding, offboarding, lifecycle management, and hardware refreshes.
• Own administration of our corporate network infrastructure, including switches, wireless, firewalls, VPNs, conferencing equipment, across multiple offices.
• Partner with Engineering leadership to plan network improvements and evolve IT infrastructure as the company grows.
• Own our endpoint security program, including endpoint protection, incident response, monitoring, and remediation.

Skills

Systems administration

Endpoint management

Networking

Scripting

Security incident response

Vendor management

Communication

Tools

MDM

Google Workspace

Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)

CI/CD tooling

Ubiquiti/UniFi

Job description

We’re Tovala, a food-tech company reinventing home cooking with hardware, software, and fresh food delivery. We seek a Senior Systems Administrator to own our internal IT environment, from endpoint management to network security, helping scale our modern IT function and protect the workforce.

You’ll work hands-on with macOS, Linux, and Windows endpoints, both on-prem and cloud-adjacent, shaping policies and improving reliability across offices.