Systems Administration Manager

X-ES Board • Verona, WI

9h • Onsite

About The Position

Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) is seeking a Systems Administration Manager to lead and actively contribute to our Systems Administration team. This role is ideal for a highly experienced systems administrator who enjoys setting technical direction, mentoring others through example, and remaining deeply involved in the design and operation of production infrastructure. The Systems Administration Manager will divide their time between hands-on systems administration and people leadership, owning both the technical health of the environment and the performance and development of the team responsible for it.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited High School (or valid General Educational Development certificate).
• Minimum of seven (7+) years of related networking or systems administration experience, including at least three (3+) years of people management.
• Linux system administration experience, Ubuntu, or similar.
• Advanced virtualization technologies such as QEMU/KVM, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing moderate-to-large size on-premise deployments.
• Infrastructure/Configuration-as-Code platforms such as Ansible.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts (DHCP, DNS, VLANs, etc.).
• Ability to work onsite from our facility located at 9901 Silicon Prairie Parkway in Verona, WI.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Administration, or a related field.
• Experience with O365 and managing cloud-based systems in Azure.
• Experience with multiple of the following tools/technologies: Grafana, Graylog, Kea, Postfix, Redmine, Rundeck, WSL, Zabbix, Zulip.
• Awareness of NIST SP 800-171 guidelines and modern cybersecurity standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of systems administrators, providing clear technical direction, fostering accountability and collaboration.
• Provide day-to-day people management, including goal setting, performance feedback, coaching, and career development.
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and training of new systems administration team members.
• Establish priorities, balance workloads, and ensure effective coverage for operational responsibilities and on-call needs.
• Facilitate stakeholder reviews with other functional areas and collaborate to understand and architect systems in support of the wider organization while balancing competing deadlines.
• Perform code reviews in GitLab and leverage powerful continuous integration pipelines.
• Maintain highly available network storage servers using ZFS, NFS, CIFS and Ceph.
• Deploy web applications and manage MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
• Configure network switches, firewalls, and Internet gateways.
• Write scripts to automate tasks and integrate services using Python and Bash.
• Utilize monitoring infrastructure to proactively detect outages and respond to alerts to ensure uptime of critical services.

Benefits

• X-ES offers a competitive compensation package and excellent benefits, including:
• No-deductible, low-copay group health and dental insurance (90% employer paid)
• Health and wellness benefits coverage eligibility begins on the first of the month following your start date
• Life insurance and long-term disability insurance (100% employer paid)
• Paid time off, plus eight paid holidays a year
• 401(k) employer match up to 4%, subject to plan terms & waiting periods.
• Roth option is available.
• Participation in the 100% employee-owned Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) at no cost to employees
• X-ES also takes a casual, small-business approach to company culture. At our state-of-the-art office and manufacturing facility located in Madison’s growing tech corridor, there’s no formal dress code, flexible day shift scheduling, and dedicated personal workspaces. Our employees kick back at regular company events and enjoy lunches from local pizza places and food carts. At X-ES, we strive to offer a comfortable, relaxed environment for our employees to do their best work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED