Position: IT Systems Administrator
Salary: $72,000-78,000 + Bonus Potential
Benefits: 100% company paid Medical/Dental/Vision, 4 weeks+ Vacation, 12.5% retirement contribution, Life Insurance, Paternal Leave, etc.
Location: East Lansing, MI (Onsite)
Job Overview: The IT Systems Administrator is responsible for maintaining and supporting the organization’s core IT infrastructure, including servers, virtualization, cloud and on-premises identity systems, networking, storage, backups, and container platforms. This hands-on role ensures system reliability, security, and performance while supporting daily business operations and infrastructure improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities of the IT Systems Administrator:
- Administer and support Windows Server, Hyper-V virtual environments, and clustered infrastructure.
- Manage and troubleshoot container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
- Administration for Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and hybrid identity environments.
- Support networking infrastructure, including firewalls, VLANs, routing, switching, and connectivity.
- Monitor and manage backup and disaster recovery processes, including testing and validation of restores.
- Automate system administration tasks using Ansible, scripting, and other automation tools.
- Administer and maintain Linux and Windows server environments.
- Perform system updates, patching, capacity planning, and infrastructure upgrades.
- Support the organization’s phone systems and AV equipment.
- Collaborate with IT team members and business stakeholders to resolve issues and improve system performance.
Preferred Experience of the IT Systems Administrator :
- M365 Administration
- Active Directory, Azure AD, Entra ID
- Windows Server & Hyper-V / VMware (Administer & failover clustering)
- Containers (Kubernetes/dockers) - deployment, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management
- Linux OS (Administer, patching, troubleshooting)
- Strong understanding of networking concepts & management (routing, switching, firewalls, VLANs and connectivity troubleshooting)
- Knowledge of backups & disaster recovery
- Strong communication, collaboration and customer service skills
Bonus Experience of the IT Systems Administrator:
- SAN Storage, iSCI, performance, workloads
- GitHub, GitOps, CI/CD
- Infrastructure-as-code, Ansible
- Enterprise backup and disaster recovery
- Scripting & Automation, PowerShell, or Python
- Phone systems & AV equipment
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IT Systems Administrator in east lansing at Unknown Company
This position is listed as full time and hybrid.