Sr Systems Administrator

Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

The Senior Systems Administrator role is to install, secure, administer, and maintain Aspire Bakeries enterprise infrastructure systems; including active directory, M365/Entra ID, domain services, Windows Server Platforms, enterprise storage, Multi-Cloud/Hybrid Services and virtualized environments across the Americas for data center, bakery, and branch offices.  Ensuring security, integrity and high-availability of enterprise systems and related components is essential. This includes ensuring the availability of client/server applications, configuring and installing updates, and developing processes and procedures for ongoing monitoring and management of mission critical services.  The Sr. System Administrator will assist in overseeing the physical security, integrity, and safety of the data center/server farms and globally distributed systems and will require occasional travel and weekend work.  This position will also assist other infrastructure teams with operations related to Aspire Bakeries overall enterprise IT infrastructure.  Additional responsibilities include Tier 2\3 support for our distributed technologies, occasional on-call duty and other duties as assigned. 

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the high-availability and security of active directory and domain services infrastructure including trusts, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, AD CS, group policies, file server shares, DFS, print services, etc. 

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of highly-available server and storage\SAN infrastructure. 

• Manage and administer M365 Suite including Exchange Online, Teams and OneDrive for Business. 

• Monitor and test system performance and provide performance statistics and reports to ensure service levels are met. 

• Recommend and execute modifications to system environments in order to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance. 

• Plan and implement system upgrades, maintenance fixes, and vendor-supplied patches. 

• Serve as cornerstone for escalating system issues; provide timely response to escalations. 

• Create PowerShell scripts as required to automate common and/or repetitive tasks. 

• Develop and maintain design, support and training documentation. 

• Other duties as required. 

Requirements:

• B.S degree in computer science, information technology, a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

• 5-7 years’ equivalent work experience in a position responsible for managing active directory domain services, server and storage environments for data centers and branch offices. 

• 3+ years managing Azure or AWS cloud IaaS infrastructure. 3+ years managing or architecting a SIEM platform.

• Experience with Cisco UCS C-Series server platform; installing, configuring, and maintaining all aspects of server hardware and associated network equipment. 

• Experience with large-scale server virtualization utilizing VMWare. 

• Backup infrastructure experience utilizing modern data protection solutions – Commvault/Metallic, are a plus. 

• Familiarity with managing Linux and Linux-based appliances, Hyper-V, and Configuration Management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, and Microsoft DSC. 

• Experience with Hybrid Exchange environments, Solar Winds Orion or other Server and Application Performance monitoring solutions, HPE/Nimble and Dell/EMC SAN Management, SQL Server Clusters, SharePoint and other business applications are a plus. 

• Demonstrated Experience migrating on-premises infrastructure, services and applications to major Cloud Service Providers is a huge-plus.

• Exceptional knowledge of Windows Server operating systems and roles, directories, file systems and security best practices. 

• Advanced level technical knowledge of scripting using PowerShell. 

• Travel approximately 25% 

Pay Range: $100,000 - $125,000

Benefits Designed with You in Mind

At Aspire Bakeries, we’re committed to supporting your well-being, professional growth, and financial stability. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

Health & Wellness:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Company-paid life insurance
• Optional voluntary benefits

Work-Life Balance:

• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off and holidays

Financial Security:

• Competitive 401(k) plan with a 100% vested company match
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage

Continuous Growth:

• Tuition reimbursement program
• Flexible Spending:
• HSA and FSA options

Performance-Based Rewards:
We value your hard work and dedication. That’s why we offer performance-driven incentive programs tailored to your role:

• Short-Term Incentive Plan (STIP): Recognizing individual and team achievements.
• Sales Incentive Plan (SIP): Rewarding excellence in sales performance.
• Bakery Incentive Plan (BIP): Focused on achieving bakery-specific performance goals.

At Aspire Bakeries, we believe that when you succeed, we all succeed. Join us and experience benefits that truly work as hard as you do!

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We thank each applicant for taking the time and effort to submit your resume, however, only candidates to be interviewed will be contacted. Our organization is committed to promoting the independence, dignity, integration, and equality of opportunity of persons with disabilities by ensuring the accessibility of our facilities and services. Accommodations are available for all parts of the recruitment and selection process. Applicants need to make their required accommodations known in advance.