Cloud Systems Administrator III

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⌨️ Systems Administrator

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Alliant Insurance Services

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1925

🛡️ Insurance

🤝 B2B

💼 Consulting

💰 $690M Debt Financing - Alliant Insurance Services on 2019-10

Insurance • B2B • Consulting

Alliant Insurance Services is a leading insurance broker and risk-management firm that provides property & casualty, employee benefits, reinsurance, claims assistance, underwriting, and industry-specific risk solutions. The company offers consulting and customized services across sectors such as healthcare, energy, transportation, real estate & hospitality, public entities, and more, and is ranked among the largest insurance brokers in the U. S. (noted as the #4 largest U. S. broker and the largest privately owned broker). Alliant emphasizes risk management, benefits consulting, disaster response, and specialty solutions for commercial clients.

📋 Description

• Serve as a technical lead for infrastructure projects, including server modernization, platform upgrades, and identity improvements • Plan, implement, validate, and transition infrastructure projects to operations • Own administration of assigned systems and services, including lifecycle management, performance, capacity, and security posture • Lead incident response for system-related events, coordinate troubleshooting, drive root cause analysis, and ensure durable corrective actions • Develop and maintain system standards, including build templates, hardening baselines, naming conventions, and access models • Improve patch and vulnerability remediation processes through schedules, exception handling, and stakeholder reporting • Design and execute backup, restore, and disaster recovery test plans; validate recovery objectives and document results and remediation actions • Implement automation for scripted provisioning, standardized checks, and automated reporting • Partner with Security to implement and validate privileged access, logging, and configuration controls • Review and approve changes for technical completeness, risk, and rollback readiness • Mentor Systems Administrator I/II staff through training, peer review, and troubleshooting guidance • Manage vendor support engagements, coordinate escalations, and track remediation to closure • Produce documentation and diagrams for operational handoff and audit review

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field or equivalent experience • Five (5) or more years in systems administration, including ownership of production systems and leading technical workstreams • Experience with hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud) and identity integration patterns • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code concepts and tools • Demonstrated experience improving operational metrics (reducing incidents, improving patch compliance, shortening recovery times) • Experience supporting regulated environments and leading audit response for infrastructure controls • Experience with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud operations in a multi-account or multi-subscription enterprise environment • Experience with cloud monitoring, log analytics, backup, security posture, policy compliance, cost management, and automation tools • Experience in insurance, financial services, regulated environments, or enterprise shared services • Advanced administration of Windows Server and core infrastructure services; solid Linux administration ability • Strong identity and access management experience (directory services, group policy strategy, privilege separation) • Proven ability to lead troubleshooting for complex issues across systems, storage, and network dependencies • Experience designing and implementing standard builds and secure baselines • Strong change management execution and risk assessment skills • Automation proficiency (PowerShell required; ability to structure scripts/modules for reuse and peer review) • Ability to mentor and lead through influence • Excellent communication: concise incident updates, stakeholder-friendly post-incident summaries, and clear technical documentation • Comfort working across teams (Security, Network, Cloud, App Owners) to drive outcomes