Senior Systems Administrator – HA, 24/7 On-Call & Cloud

Dairy Farmers of America; Kansas City (KS); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Dairy Farmers of America is seeking a Systems Administrator to oversee and maintain our server environment, ensuring stability, security, and high availability across data centers and cloud services. You will administer and support hardware and software, perform patches and updates, manage backups, on-call rotations, and drive best practices in monitoring, documentation, and disaster recovery.

This role requires 5–8 years in IT, strong networking knowledge, virtualization expertise

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in computer science, information technology, or related curriculum.
• 5–8 years of IT experience including hardware/software support, backups, and performance tools.
• Certification and/or license may be required during course of employment.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain the systems environment.
• Provide installation, configuration, and support services.
• Perform patches, firmware, and operating system updates.
• Monitor and manage system backups and recovery.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues related to physical servers.
• Manage user access and security settings.
• Maintain a disaster recovery plan.
• Coordinate with vendors for system upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Implement, and maintain a comprehensive monitoring and alerting process.
• Document system processes and procedures.
• Deploy and maintain high availability across multiple server locations.
• Research and implement appropriate system administration best practices and tools.
• Provide support and guidance to less experienced staff.
• Audit hardware/software to ensure compliance with organization guidelines.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, responding promptly to urgent issues outside regular working hours.
• The requirements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employee, but is not a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required.Other duties may be assigned as required

Skills

Networking principles

Backup technologies

Automation and scripting

Data center familiarity

Documentation and communication

Education

Undergraduate degree in computer science, information technology, or related curriculum

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Nutanix

Rubrik backups

Azure cloud

PowerShell

Job description

Dairy Farmers of America is seeking a Systems Administrator to oversee and maintain our server environment, ensuring stability, security, and high availability across data centers and cloud services. You will administer and support hardware and software, perform patches and updates, manage backups, on-call rotations, and drive best practices in monitoring, documentation, and disaster recovery.

This role requires 5–8 years in IT, strong networking knowledge, virtualization expertise