Systems Administrator

Role Overview

Title: Systems Administrator

Hours: Full-time; salaried

Location: Salt Lake City UT (on-site with hybrid flexibility)

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Manager: Head of IT

Mission Why we exist and why we need you

Geothermal energy is the most abundant renewable energy source in the world. There is 2300 times more energy in geothermal heat in the ground than in oil gas coal and methane combined. However historically its been hard to find and expensive to develop. At Zanskar were using better technology to find and develop new geothermal resources in order to make geothermal a cheap and vital contributor to a carbon-free electrical grid.

The IT team keeps our geoscientists engineers and operations staff equipped connected and secure so they can focus on finding and developing the next generation of geothermal resources. As we grow the Systems Administrator will take hands-on ownership of the systems our people depend on every day their devices accounts network and cloud tools and help us scale that foundation reliably and securely.

Outcomes Problems youll solve

Success in this role at six months looks like a device fleet and a set of core systems that largely run themselves and a team that rarely has to wonder whether their tools will just work.

By then you will have taken day-to-day ownership of endpoint management across our macOS and Windows fleet standardizing enrollment configuration and patching through our MDM platform so that a new hires laptop is ready on day one and a departing employees access is cleanly revoked. You will be administering user identity and access through our single sign-on / identity provider provisioning accounts enforcing multi-factor authentication and reasoning about least-privilege access across dozens of SaaS applications.

You will know our office network and security stack firewall policy and VLAN segmentation enterprise Wi-Fi managed switching and our zero-trust remote-access layer well enough to triage and resolve issues on your own and to propose improvements before they become problems. And you will have partnered with the Head of IT on the larger initiatives that keep a fast-moving startup resilient: provisioning cloud and virtual-desktop resources for our technical teams ensuring critical company data is backed up and recoverable and steadily hardening our posture against real-world threats.

Above all you will have shown that you can be handed an ambiguous problem and own it end to end.

Competencies What were looking for

• Endpoint & identity management: Youre fluent with MDM software for managing a cross-platform (macOS and Windows) device fleet enrollment and zero-touch provisioning configuration profiles full-disk encryption with key escrow and silent app deployment. Youre equally comfortable administering a cloud identity provider / SSO including MFA SAML and SCIM integrations and joiner/mover/leaver lifecycle workflows. This is a required hands-on skill not a nice-to-have.

• Networking & infrastructure: You can stand up and troubleshoot the building blocks of a modern office and remote network next-generation firewalls VLAN segmentation enterprise wireless managed PoE switching and VPN or zero-trust network access for remote and contractor connectivity. You read logs and packet captures without flinching.

• Cloud & SaaS administration: Youve administered public cloud (IaaS) resources and a cloud productivity & collaboration suite at an organizational level managing users groups sharing and permissions and service configuration and you understand how virtual desktops and SaaS apps fit into a secure well-governed environment.

• Scripting & automation: You reach for a scripting language (e.g. PowerShell Bash or Python) before you reach for a repetitive manual process. You can package and deploy software at scale automate routine administration and youre comfortable with version control and infrastructure-as-code concepts.

• AI & integration: Youre comfortable putting modern AI tools to work on the teams behalf and wiring them into our day-to-day business processes. You have good judgment about where automation helps and where a human still belongs in the loop.

• Security-minded and self-directed: You think about backup and recovery vendor risk and attack surface as a matter of habit and you keep up with how real incidents actually happen. Just as important you thrive with autonomy: in a small well-funded startup youll often be the only person on a given problem trusted to research the options make a recommendation and execute.

Location Salary and Benefits

• The position is located in Salt Lake City UT (on-site with hybrid flexibility)

• Full-time; salaried

• Paid holidays

• 18 days PTO PTO accrual increase based on tenure

• Medical Dental & Vision coverage

• Short Term & Long Term Disability

• Group & Supplemental Life Insurance

• Equity Packages

• 401k

• Paid Parental Leave

• A direct impact in displacing carbon emissions and growth opportunities in a growing startup environment