System Administrator

Unclassified - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Los Angeles, CA

About the position

Hadrian is at the forefront of revolutionizing the aerospace and defense industries by building autonomous factories that significantly enhance the speed and cost-effectiveness of manufacturing rockets, jets, and satellites. As a member of our team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that our IT systems and networking capabilities are robust and efficient, supporting the day-to-day operations of our factories and the broader supply chain. Your expertise will be essential in developing, implementing, and maintaining secure environments across various factory and end-user systems. In this position, you will be a principal member of our organization, responsible for deploying, maintaining, and optimizing critical IT and networking platforms. You will collaborate closely with factory operations, infrastructure, and software development teams to provide guidance on computing requirements and to collaboratively build end-to-end solutions that address complex IT administration challenges. Success in this role means being able to troubleshoot and maintain our fleet of physical endpoints, ensuring that all systems operate smoothly and securely. Your responsibilities will include administering and deploying systems in a mixed operating system environment, maintaining networking equipment, and working with cybersecurity professionals to uphold security requirements. You will also document network designs and configurations, analyze performance to identify bottlenecks, and provide Tier 3 technical support to resolve complex issues. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about making a tangible impact through systems design.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and troubleshoot our fleet of physical endpoints for workers in our factories, remote offices, and devices embedded inside machining equipment.
• Administer and deploy systems within a mixed operating system environment (Debian, Windows, MacOS).
• Maintain and administer networking equipment (PANOS, JUNOS, AWS TGW).
• Administer and maintain platforms, support and maintain on-premises and cloud databases (MSSQL, Postgres).
• Work with Cybersecurity professionals to maintain security requirements and provide documentation and training on advanced IT processes.
• Document network design, configurations, and procedures, and maintain an up-to-date inventory of devices and software at Hadrian factories.
• Analyze performance, identify and resolve bottlenecks and other QoS issues.
• Provide Tier 3 technical support and work with vendors to resolve complex problems.

Requirements

• Experienced with Microsoft domain controllers, Active Directory, and Azure administration.
• Experienced with HPE/Dell Server Administration.
• Familiarity with Data Loss Prevention endpoint solutions such as Microsoft Purview, Crowdstrike, ForcePoint.
• Experienced using QEMU KVM, xcp-ng, VMWare ESXi and/or other virtual computing methods.
• Familiar with security compliance applications such as QRadar, Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel.
• Knowledge of network security technologies, including firewalls, VPN, and intrusion detection/prevention systems.
• Familiarity with modern network operating systems like PANOS, JUNOS.
• Familiar with GitOps, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Familiar with cloud infrastructure administration such as AWS, Azure.
• Capable of working collaboratively with the infrastructure team to support SRE, DevOps, DBA, InfoSec, and more.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with ITAR compliance.
• Familiarity or experience with controls pertaining to NIST 800-171 or CMMC compliance frameworks.
• Experience in manufacturing environments.
• Experience with writing Python/Go for network and endpoint administration tooling.