System Administrator

The role

The System Administrator will manage bare-metal virtualization layers, build highly available storage meshes, and automate deployments. This role involves safeguarding corporate parameters from workstations to web routing and maintaining absolute uptime.

What you will do

• Architect, scale, and maintain bare-metal hypervisors and highly available storage architectures.
• Deploy, harden, and scale core Linux environment pools using scripting and automated orchestration.
• Maintain visibility over server health, application metrics, and infrastructure clusters.
• Troubleshoot system errors, server faults, and physical switch or routing issues.
• Deploy firewall rule sets, manage network routing loops, execute vulnerability scans, and maintain access controls.
• Manage internal user environments and build manuals for user access policies.
• Handle technology tooling procurement.
• Run the IT backbone for a global team.

Required qualifications

• Proven track record of managing distributed infrastructure, network nodes, and bare-metal server architectures.
• Experience or familiarity handling ISMS audits and vulnerability tracking.
• Available 7 days a week to act as primary infrastructure responder.
• Self-motivated and highly organized.
• Ability to execute complex hardware or software purchasing pipelines and upgrade patches.
• Advanced configuration, kernel tuning, and hardening of Linux Ubuntu.
• High-availability clustering, storage pools, block devices, and node management with Proxmox VE and Ceph.
• MySQL / MariaDB (Replication, indexing, queries) and Nginx (Reverse proxies, load balancing, SSL configuration).
• AWS (Core services infrastructure), Puppet (Configuration management), and Bash / Python scripting.
• Nagios / Zabbix (Telemetry tracking, custom alerting rules, log aggregation).
• pfSense, hardware switches, VLAN structuring, VPN routing, and clean network segmentation.
• Google Workspace (Identity provider provisioning, access paths), Vulnerability Scanning tools, and Penetration Testing frameworks.

Benefits

• Extreme Architectural Sovereignty
• A Culture of Momentum
• High-Growth Upside

About the company

partyhat is a fast-moving, digital-native team.