Job Description
Job Title: Senior Hosting Infrastructure Administrator
Location: Plymouth ,WI
Duration: 06 months contract
Description:
The Senior Hosting Infrastructure Administrator is a hands on technical leader responsible for the stability, performance, and evolution of our Linux server environment across both on prem and cloud platforms. You'll support critical enterprise workloads, including SAP on Linux, ensuring systems are resilient, secure, and highly available. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you'll serve as a senior technical authority—tackling complex issues, shaping infrastructure design, strengthening data protection, and driving automation. While you won't have direct reports, you'll mentor peers, provide technical leadership, and collaborate closely with manufacturing, application, and IT teams to ensure infrastructure reliably powers the business.
Linux, Cloud & Manufacturing Infrastructure
Location: Plymouth ,WI
Duration: 06 months contract
Description:
The Senior Hosting Infrastructure Administrator is a hands on technical leader responsible for the stability, performance, and evolution of our Linux server environment across both on prem and cloud platforms. You'll support critical enterprise workloads, including SAP on Linux, ensuring systems are resilient, secure, and highly available. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you'll serve as a senior technical authority—tackling complex issues, shaping infrastructure design, strengthening data protection, and driving automation. While you won't have direct reports, you'll mentor peers, provide technical leadership, and collaborate closely with manufacturing, application, and IT teams to ensure infrastructure reliably powers the business.
Linux, Cloud & Manufacturing Infrastructure
- Own the reliability, performance, and evolution of Linux platforms across physical, virtual, and cloud environments (AWS/Azure).
- Partner closely with manufacturing, automation, SAP, and application teams to keep mission critical systems available, resilient, and recoverable.
- Provide OS level leadership for SAP on Linux, including performance tuning, patch coordination, and controlled system restarts.
- Influence infrastructure design decisions to improve scalability, reliability, and operational resilience.
Storage, Data Protection & Disaster Recovery
- Lead administration of enterprise storage platforms and coordinate firmware, OS, and compatibility upgrades.
- Own backup, recovery, business continuity, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Plan and execute disaster recovery testing to validate recoverability and business readiness.
Automation, Monitoring & Reliability Engineering
- Design and maintain automation scripts and configuration assets using version controlled repositories.
- Automate provisioning, validation, configuration, and operational workflows.
- Expand monitoring and alerting to proactively detect issues and reduce unplanned downtime.
Security & Infrastructure Operations
- Apply Linux security best practices, including patching, hardening, access controls, encryption, and zero trust principles.
- Support data center operations such as power, cooling, racking, cabling, and hardware lifecycle management.
- Lead planned and unplanned maintenance while minimizing impact to business and manufacturing operations.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
- Serve as 3rd level escalation for complex Linux, cloud, storage, and automation incidents.
- Lead incident response efforts, including root cause analysis and corrective action planning.
- Mentor junior and mid-level administrators through technical guidance and best practice sharing.
Projects, Standards & Continuous Improvement
- Lead or contribute to medium and large scale infrastructure initiatives, including plant expansions.
- Research emerging technologies to strengthen reliability, security, and automation.
- Develop technical standards, documentation, and operating procedures.
- Help define and track KPIs/KRIs that drive continuous improvement.
On Call & Operational Support
- Participate in a shared on call rotation.
- Provide occasional night and weekend support in a 24×7 environment, including manufacturing systems.
Your Education and Experience.
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of hosting or infrastructure experience with strong Linux production support.
- Hands on AWS and/or Azure experience.
- Experience supporting backup and disaster recovery solutions.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
Preferred
- Manufacturing or plant floor Linux experience.
- SAP on Linux experience.
- Cloud certification (AWS or Azure Associate or equivalent).
- Mid-level Linux certification.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Plymouth, WI |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://www.sunrisesys.com/ |
About Company
Sunrise Systems was founded in 1990 with a clear vision to deliver world-class staffing service solutions in all labor categories, including IT consulting and solutions; all with the commitment to provide service that exceeds expectations and become the most trusted name in the industry. More than two and a half decades later, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the staffing industry. Combining our deep industry expertise, insights, and global resources, we have partnered with our clients to connect them with top professionals across several different industries.
We provide cost-effective Managed Staffing Solutions, Information Technology and Information Technology Consulting Services to several Fortune 500 companies and U.S. Government agencies. We provide our clients with flexible engagement models and customized products that are budget and time specific. Understanding the challenges that every business faces, we offer our services either on-site at the clients' site or from one of our globally distributed technology centers. Our onshore and offshore development capabilities ensure that we excel at meeting customer requirements every single time.
Our collective business experience spans over two and a half decades and ranges from:
- Business, management, and technical fields
- Information technology consulting and software solutions.
- Providing strategic support for the development and long-term growth of new business ventures across several industries including but not limited to; accounting, banking, finance, and recruitment.
- Motivating technology staff and establishing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies
Sunrise Systems has a vast range of competence in:
- Design, development, and support of cloud-based solutions from simple to highly complexed
- Database administration of multi-platform applications, complex databases, and web-based environments that include all aspects of installation, planning, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Data processing and data migration
- Application re-engineering and platform migration
- Working with the Information Systems and end-user communities at all levels to resolve issues and establish consensus.
Skills
- Access Controlunmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Business Operationsunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Cloud Storageunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Firmwareunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Cryptographyunmatched
- Data Recoveryunmatched
- Data Storageunmatched
- Disaster Recoveryunmatched
- Emerging Technologyunmatched
- High Availabilityunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Incident Responseunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Automationunmatched
- Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
- Manufacturing Softwareunmatched
- Manufacturing Systemsunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- Network Operations Centerunmatched
- On Callunmatched
- Operating Systemsunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Operations Processesunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Software Patchesunmatched
- Standards Developmentunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical Researchunmatched
- Technical Writingunmatched
- Testingunmatched
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