Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in technology-led companies. They are seeking an experienced IT System Administrator to support and maintain their cloud environments and end-user services, ensuring reliable and secure operations across AWS and Microsoft Azure.
Responsibilities
- Administer, monitor, and maintain workloads across AWS and Microsoft Azure, including compute, storage, networking, and identity resources
- Manage resource provisioning, cost visibility, tagging, and baseline security configuration across both cloud platforms
- Support hybrid and cloud-native architectures, troubleshooting connectivity, performance, and availability issues
- Integrate with an interdisciplinary team of experts in optimization and simulation to design, build, and optimize models that deliver high-quality, real-world insights
- Design and implement novel heuristics and optimization models to solve complex problems in various industries, ensuring efficiency and scalability
- Stay up to date with the latest advancements in decision science and implement best practices for our customers
- The communication of complex technical concepts and findings to non-technical stakeholders clearly and concisely
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into actionable solutions
- Administer the Microsoft 365 tenant, including Entra ID (Azure AD), Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, and related services
- Manage user lifecycle (provisioning/deprovisioning), licensing, group and role assignments, and conditional access policies
- Support mail flow, security baselines, and collaboration platform configuration
- Perform routine system administration, patching, monitoring, and maintenance across endpoints and cloud-hosted systems
- Respond to and resolve escalated infrastructure and end-user support issues
- Maintain accurate documentation, runbooks, and configuration records
- Administer and support the organization's portfolio of managed IT and security SaaS platforms, ensuring proper configuration, integration, and reliable day-to-day operation
- Maintain tooling that spans endpoint and mobile device management (RMM/MDM), patching, and IT service management/ticketing and user-facing support workflows
- Support security-focused managed services, including managed detection and monitoring, security awareness training, and compliance automation and evidence-collection tooling
- Manage user access, licensing, integrations, and vendor coordination across these platforms; serve as the internal administrator and escalation point for configuration and operational issues
- Develop and maintain basic scripts (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, or Python) to automate repetitive administrative tasks
- Support reporting, monitoring, and provisioning workflows through scripting and native cloud/M365 tooling
- Apply and maintain security configurations consistent with DoW and applicable compliance requirements
- Support hardening, logging, access reviews, and audit-readiness activities
- Partner with security and compliance stakeholders to ensure administrative practices align with organizational policy
Skills
- 7+ years of hands-on IT system administration experience
- Strong, demonstrable expertise administering AWS environments
- Practical cloud administration experience across both AWS and Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft 365 administration expertise (Entra ID, Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, licensing, and identity management)
- Basic scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash, or Python) for automation of administrative tasks
- Some experience supporting or operating within Department of War (DoW) environments
- Ability to work independently as a 1099 contractor with strong documentation and communication habits
- Prior experience operating in a GCC-High (Microsoft 365 Government) environment
- Familiarity with DoW/DoD security and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, or DISA STIGs)
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified SysOps Administrator/Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator, or Microsoft 365 Certified
- Experience administering third-party managed IT and security SaaS platforms across categories such as endpoint/mobile device management (RMM/MDM), IT service management and ticketing, managed detection and monitoring, security awareness training, and compliance automation tooling
- Experience with infrastructure automation, monitoring, or configuration management tooling
- Active or eligible for a US security clearance
Benefits
- Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
- Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.
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