Systems Administration Manager

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.

Duties and 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelors 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.

Compensation and 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 Madisons growing tech corridor theres 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.

About X-ES

When rugged enough isnt rugged enough for embedded computing systems industry leaders in the military aerospace industrial and commercial sectors turn to Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES). Because we strive to be the premier provider of mission-critical embedded products while delivering exceptional levels of customer and employee satisfaction we hire strong contributors and give them space to thrive. As a 100% employee-owned company our employees both drive and directly benefit from our success. Together we meticulously design and build products that stand up to some of the most extreme conditions on the planet.

X-ES is located on the far west side of Madison WI. The company designs and manufactures rugged embedded computing solutions for a variety of applications. For more information visit.

X-ES is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or any other category protected by law.

All X-ES job postings and application procedures are posted in compliance with Section39.08 of the Madison General Ordinances.

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