Systems Administrator

WarCollar Industries is seeking an experienced Systems Administrator to support the design, administration, security, and scalability of cloud infrastructure and database environments. This role will maintain the infrastructure hosting critical applications across development, testing, training, and production environments, ensuring reliability, performance, and security.

Working alongside Software Developers, DevOps Engineers, and Data Engineers, the Systems Administrator will help deliver secure, scalable infrastructure that enables mission-critical software to operate efficiently and reliably. The ideal candidate brings strong systems design experience, database administration expertise, and a proactive approach to improving infrastructure performance, security, and scalability.

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Required Skills

Core Responsibilities:
Database & Cloud Infrastructure: Deploy, configure, manage, and secure AWS resources, including EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, CloudWatch, and VPC. Support database sizing, administration, performance optimization, and server security.

DevOps & CI/CD: Build, maintain, and troubleshoot continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using GitLab, GitHub, or Jenkins.

Containerization & Kubernetes: Design, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and containerized environments to support reliable application development and deployment.

Systems Administration & Security: Perform routine maintenance, vulnerability scanning, patch management, and system troubleshooting across physical and cloud infrastructure. Manage VPNs and maintain current SSL/TLS certificates.

Systems Architecture & Scalability: Design and implement secure infrastructure enhancements to support new capabilities, resolve technical issues, and improve system performance, availability, and scalability.

Infrastructure Optimization: Maintain and improve software and infrastructure architecture by applying operational best practices, identifying opportunities for automation, and proactively addressing performance and reliability concerns.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with software development, DevOps, and data engineering teams to maintain stable environments, support deployments, and ensure infrastructure meets evolving technical and operational requirements.

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Desired Skills

Required Qualifications

SQL Databases: 7+ years of experience working with SQL databases, including database administration, sizing, and performance optimization.

Operating Systems: 4+ years of experience administering Linux or Windows environments.

Elasticsearch: 2+ years of experience working with Elasticsearch environments.

Kubernetes: 2+ years of experience deploying, administering, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters.

Cloud Infrastructure: Experience provisioning, securing, and maintaining AWS services and cloud-based infrastructure.

DevOps & CI/CD: Experience supporting automated build and deployment pipelines using GitLab, GitHub, or Jenkins.

Systems Design: Demonstrated experience designing, maintaining, and improving secure, scalable systems infrastructure.

Problem-Solving: Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills.

Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary technical teams.

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About WarCollar Industries

About us:
WarCollar Industries, LLC is a veteran-owned small business. We maintain a team of cybersecurity experts committed to protecting complicated data and distribution systems and providing decision makers with the most accurate assessment of residual risk possible. We work with our clients to solve the toughest challenges in the ever-evolving digital landscape. Services include network defense, computer network attack, secure network design, penetration testing and vulnerability assessment. WarCollar enables its clients to find, fix, stop, and ultimately solve cybersecurity problems across their entire enterprise.

WarCollar offers generous benefits including: Medical insurance premium coverage; PTO based on billable hours; federal holidays plus your birthday; matching 401k, education reimbursement plus paid training days; performance bonuses; referral bonuses; government shutdown protection; monthly team building events plus two major social events annually.

WarCollar Industries, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. WarCollar does not discriminate in employment based upon race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, status as a protected military veteran, or other non-merit factor.