Senior Systems Administrator

American IT Systems•Houston, TX
•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to administer and maintain Windows Server environments (2016/2019/2022), including patching, performance tuning, and capacity planning. This role involves installing, configuring, and optimizing IIS for .NET and web application hosting, including SSL/TLS, application pools, bindings, and HTTP/2. The administrator will manage deployments on AWS and GCP, deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters, and implement Helm charts for standardized application deployments. Automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and PowerShell is key, as is managing DNS, load balancers, SSL/TLS certificates, network policies, and security groups. Support for CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, disaster recovery, and collaboration with development and security teams for compliance are also essential.

Requirements

  • Experience on IIS, AD & DNS
  • Experience administering and maintaining Windows Server environments (2016/2019/2022)
  • Experience installing, configuring, and optimizing IIS for .NET and web application hosting
  • Experience managing deployments on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS)
  • Experience managing deployments on GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, GCS, VPC, IAM, GKE)
  • Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters (EKS / GKE)
  • Experience implementing and maintaining Helm charts
  • Experience with automation using Terraform and PowerShell
  • Experience managing DNS, load balancers, SSL/TLS certificates, network policies, and security groups
  • Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines integrating Kubernetes deployments via GitHub Actions
  • Experience monitoring cluster and application health using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or GCP Cloud Monitoring
  • Experience supporting disaster recovery, backup strategies, and multi-region failover configurations
  • Experience collaborating with development and security teams to meet compliance requirements (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001)

Responsibilities

  • Administer and maintain Windows Server environments (2016/2019/2022), including patching, performance tuning, and capacity planning
  • Install, configure, and optimize IIS for .NET and web application hosting, including SSL/TLS, application pools, bindings, and HTTP/2
  • Manage deployments on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS) and GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, GCS, VPC, IAM, GKE)
  • Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS / GKE), including workload deployment, namespaces, RBAC, ingress controllers and HPA
  • Manage Windows container workloads on Kubernetes using Windows node pools
  • Implement and maintain Helm charts for standardized application deployments
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and PowerShell
  • Manage DNS, load balancers, SSL/TLS certificates, network policies, and security groups across all environments
  • Support CI/CD pipelines integrating Kubernetes deployments via GitHub Actions
  • Monitor cluster and application health using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or GCP Cloud Monitoring
  • Support disaster recovery, backup strategies, and multi-region failover configurations
  • Collaborate with development and security teams to meet compliance requirements (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001)
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