Senior Systems Administrator

About the company:

Advisors, operations, compliance and technology teams total roughly 7,000 people. Since 1955, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices.

Position summary:

Switchgrass has an opening for a Senior Systems Administrator. This position covers server administration, identity, backups and escalations from the help desk. Our Systems team supports about 120 servers across two data centres and Azure. Expect a mix of projects and tickets. Our headquarters is in Las Vegas, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Switzerland, with a local contract and salary paid in local currency. Our standups are at 9:00 AM Pacific. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Day to day:

• Maintain Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP
• Handle escalations from the help desk and close them with documentation
• Own Microsoft 365 and Entra ID administration, including Exchange Online and conditional access
• Monitor backups in Veeam, Commvault or Rubrik and test restores quarterly
• Plan and perform after-hours maintenance windows
• Renew and install SSL/TLS certificates before they expire
• Manage VMware vSphere or Hyper-V clusters, including host patching and capacity

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of systems administration experience
• Strong Windows Server and Active Directory skills
• Microsoft 365 administration experience

What you get:

Pay: CHF 87,000 - CHF 107,000 a year

• Company laptop
• Flexible hours
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end
• Home office setup budget

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Switchgrass.