Senior Systems Administrator
This is a remote position.
As a Senior Systems Administrator at ProScore, you’ll take ownership of our AWS-based infrastructure and core systems. This role goes beyond day-to-day administration, you’ll be a technical leader responsible for designing scalable systems, driving automation, and setting operational best practices across the organization.
- Own the design, administration, and optimization of ProScore’s AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments
- Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems to support API-driven and data-intensive workloads
- Lead infrastructure automation efforts using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- Define and enforce operational standards, monitoring strategies, and alerting best practices
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem reviews
- Design and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans
- Implement and oversee AWS security best practices (IAM, network segmentation, encryption, access controls)
- Collaborate with engineering teams on CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and system architecture decisions
- Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical escalation point for systems-related issues
- Maintain clear documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks
- 5+ years of experience in systems administration, cloud infrastructure, or SRE-related roles
- Deep, hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Strong Linux systems administration background
- Proven experience designing and supporting production-grade, customer-facing systems
- Strong automation and scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar)
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture principles
- Experience working independently in a remote, distributed environment
- Strong communication skills and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset
- AWS certifications (SysOps Administrator, Solutions Architect, or equivalent)
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- CI/CD tooling experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
- Experience supporting compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or HIPAA
- Background in high-growth startup or scale-up environments
- Fully remote team with flexible working hours
- High level of ownership and influence over core infrastructure decisions
- Opportunity to build and scale systems that power real-time, customer-facing platforms
- Collaborative, low-ego engineering culture
- Competitive compensation and benefits