Senior Systems Administrator (Direct to perm)

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Senior Systems Administrator (Direct to perm)

Location: Hybrid Onsite in New Albany, IN

Direct to Permanent employment.

Description

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is a hands-on, elite technical generalist responsible for solving infrastructure problems wherever they occur: servers, networking, cloud, or DevOps. This is a deeply technical role built for someone who can be handed any infrastructure problem and own it through to resolution without being routed to a specialist.

Reporting to the IT Infrastructure Manager, this role works alongside an experienced team of infrastructure professionals supporting Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, hybrid identity, multi-vendor networking, and core enterprise systems across multiple North American manufacturing facilities.

This role supports both corporate-office and manufacturing shop-floor environments. The ideal candidate is a technically elite infrastructure generalist who can diagnose and resolve problems across diverse and unfamiliar systems, catch risk before it becomes an incident, and build infrastructure with the discipline and scale of thinking an enterprise organization requires.

This is a HYBRID position and will report into our New Albany, IN location 3-4 times a week

Requirements

• Operate as a top-tier, cross-domain contributor across servers, networking, cloud, identity, and DevOps, capable of taking on any infrastructure problem handed to you and owning it through to resolution without needing to be routed to a specialist.
• Administer and troubleshoot core infrastructure: Windows Server (physical, virtual, and cloud-based), hybrid Active Directory / Entra ID, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams), Microsoft Azure, DNS/DHCP, and multi-vendor networking (LAN/WAN, firewalls, VPNs, routing, switching).
• Work hands-on with automation tooling: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and scripted deployment and configuration management, in addition to endpoint and access tooling including CrowdStrike, Cloudflare Zero Trust, and Action1 patch management.

Enterprise Foresight & Resource Building

• Design and build infrastructure resources the way an enterprise organization needs them built: standardized, scalable, documented, and repeatable, not one-off fixes that only the builder can maintain.
• Identify and escalate potential problem areas before they become incidents.
• Operate effectively in ambiguous or undocumented situations
• Exercise sound judgment on prioritization when demands compete

Cross-Site & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Communicate infrastructure status, risk, and constraints clearly to both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders, without waiting to be asked.
• Work across facilities and functional teams (Support, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering) with clear handoffs, knowing where personal ownership ends and another team's begins.
• Support integration of acquired facilities onto standard technology platforms.

Documentation, Automation & Project Leadership

• Develop and maintain documentation for infrastructure systems and configurations;
• Build automation
• Lead and execute infrastructure projects and initiatives, including migrations, upgrades, and standardization efforts, reliably and independently.
• Participate in on-call rotation and after-hours maintenance windows scheduled around production and shift schedules.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of progressive IT experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, Systems Administrator, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent generalist infrastructure role.
• Strong hands-on expertise with: Microsoft 365 and Azure, Hybrid identity (Active Directory and Entra ID), DNS, DHCP, Networking, Servers, virtualization, and storage
• Experience using scripting or automation to improve infrastructure operations.
• Experience working in a multi-site organization.
• Experience operating in hybrid (on-prem and cloud) environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work a hybrid on-site schedule, typically 3-4 days per week in the New Albany, IN office.
• Ability to travel 15%-20% to other company facilities.
• Occasional night and weekend work may be required for projects, maintenance windows, and major incident response.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Manufacturing or industrial environment experience.
• Experience integrating IT environments through mergers or acquisitions.
• IT certifications (e.g., Microsoft, networking, cloud, or infrastructure-related).

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.