Systems Administrator
Summary
Systems Administrator at a fintech company managing hybrid infrastructure spanning on-prem VMware vSphere and AWS cloud. Day-to-day involves Windows server administration, cloud resource management, monitoring/alerting with Nagios and Splunk, security tooling, backup operations, and supporting PCI DSS and SOC 2 compliance. Works onsite at the Cleveland corporate office.
About the role
Kurv Pay is a financial services company. Our infrastructure is a hybrid of on-prem VMware vSphere and a growing AWS footprint. The System Administrator maintains the day to day health, security, and performance of our servers, network, and monitoring, and supports the ongoing migration of workloads to the cloud. You will work directly with the IT and Security team on daily operations, project work, and incident response, in an environment where uptime and security are non-negotiable. You will also help maintain our compliance posture across frameworks such as PCI DSS and SOC 2.
What you will do
- Administer Windows servers on VMware vSphere, including patching, provisioning, backups, and capacity planning.
- Manage AWS resources including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Lambda, and RDS (PostgreSQL), and support workloads migrating to the cloud.
- Monitor cloud health and spend through CloudWatch and Cost Explorer.
- Manage Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy in a hybrid identity environment synced to Microsoft Entra.
- Manage DNS zones and records, and handle the SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle including issuance, renewal, and deployment.
- Support Cisco switching and carry out Palo Alto firewall changes under change control.
- Own monitoring and alerting in Nagios, including tuning checks, refining alert thresholds, and maintaining coverage.
- Build and maintain searches, dashboards, and alerts in Splunk.
- Run Veeam backup jobs and regularly validate restores.
- Support endpoint security tooling including SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and AppLocker.
- Respond to incidents, document root cause, and carry out remediation.
- Keep runbooks, documentation, and asset inventory accurate and current.
- Follow change management and documented security controls in all work.