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RLG is a PE-backed manufacturer operating 28 plant sites across the United States and Canada. Following a period of rapid, acquisition-driven growth, the company is executing a focused IT turnaround: standardizing infrastructure across a fragmented estate, maturing its cybersecurity posture, and building the team and operating model to support continued M&A.
The Senior Systems Administrator is a key member of that team. This role owns the infrastructure reliability of an assigned portfolio of plant sites, serves as the senior technical resource for Systems Administrators in their geographic area, and contributes to enterprise-level projects and standards that affect the full RLG estate. It is a high-autonomy role with real ownership: the expectation is that assigned sites run well, issues get resolved before they become incidents, and the team around you gets better because you are in it.
This role is well suited to an experienced infrastructure professional who wants meaningful scope, direct impact on production operations, and a clear path toward people leadership. It is not a help desk escalation role. L1 and L2 support is handled by an outsourced MSP; the Senior Systems Administrator owns everything above that threshold.
Key Responsibilities
Site Infrastructure Reliability
- Own the infrastructure health of your assigned plant sites: servers, virtualization (Proxmox/VMware/Nutanix), storage, endpoints, local networking, and site-level security posture.
- Maintain accurate, current documentation of site infrastructure including configurations, network diagrams, change history, and known issues. Documentation is not optional; every site you own should be understandable to someone who has never visited it.
- Monitor assigned sites proactively using RLG tooling; identify and address degradation signals before they become incidents.
- Execute infrastructure changes with disciplined change management: planned, communicated to affected stakeholders, tested where possible, and with a rollback plan in place before you start.
- Maintain awareness of site-level security posture; execute patching schedules, EOL device retirement, and security baseline requirements on time.
L3 Escalation and MSP Interface
- Own L3 resolution for escalations from the outsourced L1/L2 MSP across your assigned sites. You are the top of the internal escalation stack for those sites.
- Resolve escalations including novel issues with no existing runbook.
- Identify recurring escalation patterns from the MSP; raise systemic issues to the Infrastructure Manager with a recommended fix, not just a flag.
- Provide clear, specific technical direction to MSP remote hands during on-site work at your sites.
Regional Technical Leadership
- Serve as the informal technical lead for Systems Administrators in your geographic area.
- Flag capacity problems, performance concerns, or skill gaps you observe in your geographic area to the Infrastructure Manager.
- Lead multi-site or cross-regional technical projects when assigned by the Infrastructure Manager.
Enterprise Standards and Improvement
- Contribute to and maintain RLG infrastructure standards documentation and runbooks. You are a net contributor to the team knowledge base.
- Identify opportunities to improve reliability, automation, reduce manual effort, or address systemic risk across your sites or the broader estate.
- Participate in enterprise-level infrastructure projects, integrations, and acquisitions.
- Stay current with the technology platforms in use across RLG; share relevant knowledge with the team.
Business and Operations Relationship
- Build working relationships with plant managers and operations contacts in the assigned region. Understand what they do, what their IT dependencies are, and what a bad day looks like for them.
- Communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders about outages, planned changes, and timelines.
- Escalate to the Infrastructure Manager when a site-level issue has potential production impact, before that impact occurs if at all possible.
Key Qualifications
Education and Certifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience. Equivalent experience will be given full consideration.
- Valuable certifications: Microsoft Certified (Azure Administrator, M365 Administrator, or equivalent), VMware VCP, or comparable infrastructure credentials. CompTIA (Server+, Network+, Security+) valued for candidates building toward those levels.
Experience
- 5 or more years of IT infrastructure experience in a multi-site or enterprise environment, with demonstrated ownership of site-level infrastructure rather than support queue participation.
- Experience resolving complex L3 issues independently, including issues with no existing documentation or runbook.
- Experience executing infrastructure changes (migrations, upgrades, new deployments) with sound change management practice in a production environment.
- Experience providing technical guidance or informal mentorship to less experienced colleagues.
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with technical and non-technical audiences alike.
- Ability to navigate in a fast-moving, acquisitive environment.
- Multi-site manufacturing, industrial, or similarly operationally sensitive environment experience is a strong asset.
Technical Skills
- Windows Server and Active Directory/Entra ID administration at an enterprise level.
- Virtualization: hands-on experience with VMware ESXi and/or Proxmox VE. Experience migrating between hypervisor platforms is an asset.
- Networking fundamentals: VLANs, firewall rules, DNS, DHCP, and site-level connectivity. You do not need to be a network engineer, but you need to be able to own first-line network issues at sites without escalating.
- Endpoint management in an enterprise environment.
- Backup and recovery tooling; experience validating BC/DR configurations at the site level.
- Security fundamentals: patching discipline, EOL device management, security baseline enforcement, and the ability to identify and escalate posture gaps.
- RMM tooling for remote monitoring and management of a distributed endpoint estate.
- Familiarity with ERP shop floor environments and the infrastructure requirements that support them is an asset (e.g., Radius, LabelTraxx).
Posted Pay Range: 95,000 - 110,000
Req Benefits:
Why work with us? Take a look at all we have to offer!
- Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
- Comprehensive and Competitive Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
- Company Paid Short-Term Disability Insurance and Life Insurance Additional Benefits
- - Long-Term Disability, Supplemental Life, Accident and Critical Illness Coverage Plans
- Excellent 401(k) retirement plan with generous company contribution
- We pride ourselves in investing in our employees by offering onsite training and the ability to have unlimited growth
potential within our organization - We believe in rewarding our employees with performance-based salary increases
CLICK HERE to watch a video and learn more about us!
Additional Details :
Resource Label Group, LLC (RLG) is a leading full-service provider of label and packaging solutions with a diverse product offering which includes pressure sensitive labels, shrink sleeves, RFID/NFC technology, sustainable product solutions, scent activation technology, pharmaceutical packaging and fulfillment services. Resource Label provides products and services for the food, beverage, chemical, household products, personal care, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, medical device, and technology industries. With locations across the U.S. and Canada, RLG provides national leadership and scale to deliver capabilities, technologies, systems, and creative solutions that customers require.
RLG is a PE-backed manufacturer operating 28 plant sites across the United States and Canada. Following a period of rapid, acquisition-driven growth, the company is executing a focused IT turnaround: standardizing infrastructure across a fragmented estate, maturing its cybersecurity posture, and building the team and operating model to support continued M&A.
The Senior Systems Administrator is a key member of that team. This role owns the infrastructure reliability of an assigned portfolio of plant sites, serves as the senior technical resource for Systems Administrators in their geographic area, and contributes to enterprise-level projects and standards that affect the full RLG estate. It is a high-autonomy role with real ownership: the expectation is that assigned sites run well, issues get resolved before they become incidents, and the team around you gets better because you are in it.
This role is well suited to an experienced infrastructure professional who wants meaningful scope, direct impact on production operations, and a clear path toward people leadership. It is not a help desk escalation role. L1 and L2 support is handled by an outsourced MSP; the Senior Systems Administrator owns everything above that threshold.
Key Responsibilities
Site Infrastructure Reliability
- Own the infrastructure health of your assigned plant sites: servers, virtualization (Proxmox/VMware/Nutanix), storage, endpoints, local networking, and site-level security posture.
- Maintain accurate, current documentation of site infrastructure including configurations, network diagrams, change history, and known issues. Documentation is not optional; every site you own should be understandable to someone who has never visited it.
- Monitor assigned sites proactively using RLG tooling; identify and address degradation signals before they become incidents.
- Execute infrastructure changes with disciplined change management: planned, communicated to affected stakeholders, tested where possible, and with a rollback plan in place before you start.
- Maintain awareness of site-level security posture; execute patching schedules, EOL device retirement, and security baseline requirements on time.
L3 Escalation and MSP Interface
- Own L3 resolution for escalations from the outsourced L1/L2 MSP across your assigned sites. You are the top of the internal escalation stack for those sites.
- Resolve escalations including novel issues with no existing runbook.
- Identify recurring escalation patterns from the MSP; raise systemic issues to the Infrastructure Manager with a recommended fix, not just a flag.
- Provide clear, specific technical direction to MSP remote hands during on-site work at your sites.
Regional Technical Leadership
- Serve as the informal technical lead for Systems Administrators in your geographic area.
- Flag capacity problems, performance concerns, or skill gaps you observe in your geographic area to the Infrastructure Manager.
- Lead multi-site or cross-regional technical projects when assigned by the Infrastructure Manager.
Enterprise Standards and Improvement
- Contribute to and maintain RLG infrastructure standards documentation and runbooks. You are a net contributor to the team knowledge base.
- Identify opportunities to improve reliability, automation, reduce manual effort, or address systemic risk across your sites or the broader estate.
- Participate in enterprise-level infrastructure projects, integrations, and acquisitions.
- Stay current with the technology platforms in use across RLG; share relevant knowledge with the team.
Business and Operations Relationship
- Build working relationships with plant managers and operations contacts in the assigned region. Understand what they do, what their IT dependencies are, and what a bad day looks like for them.
- Communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders about outages, planned changes, and timelines.
- Escalate to the Infrastructure Manager when a site-level issue has potential production impact, before that impact occurs if at all possible.
Key Qualifications
Education and Certifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience. Equivalent experience will be given full consideration.
- Valuable certifications: Microsoft Certified (Azure Administrator, M365 Administrator, or equivalent), VMware VCP, or comparable infrastructure credentials. CompTIA (Server+, Network+, Security+) valued for candidates building toward those levels.
Experience
- 5 or more years of IT infrastructure experience in a multi-site or enterprise environment, with demonstrated ownership of site-level infrastructure rather than support queue participation.
- Experience resolving complex L3 issues independently, including issues with no existing documentation or runbook.
- Experience executing infrastructure changes (migrations, upgrades, new deployments) with sound change management practice in a production environment.
- Experience providing technical guidance or informal mentorship to less experienced colleagues.
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with technical and non-technical audiences alike.
- Ability to navigate in a fast-moving, acquisitive environment.
- Multi-site manufacturing, industrial, or similarly operationally sensitive environment experience is a strong asset.
Technical Skills
- Windows Server and Active Directory/Entra ID administration at an enterprise level.
- Virtualization: hands-on experience with VMware ESXi and/or Proxmox VE. Experience migrating between hypervisor platforms is an asset.
- Networking fundamentals: VLANs, firewall rules, DNS, DHCP, and site-level connectivity. You do not need to be a network engineer, but you need to be able to own first-line network issues at sites without escalating.
- Endpoint management in an enterprise environment.
- Backup and recovery tooling; experience validating BC/DR configurations at the site level.
- Security fundamentals: patching discipline, EOL device management, security baseline enforcement, and the ability to identify and escalate posture gaps.
- RMM tooling for remote monitoring and management of a distributed endpoint estate.
- Familiarity with ERP shop floor environments and the infrastructure requirements that support them is an asset (e.g., Radius, LabelTraxx).
Posted Pay Range: 95,000 - 110,000
Req Benefits:
Why work with us? Take a look at all we have to offer!
- Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
- Comprehensive and Competitive Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
- Company Paid Short-Term Disability Insurance and Life Insurance Additional Benefits
- - Long-Term Disability, Supplemental Life, Accident and Critical Illness Coverage Plans
- Excellent 401(k) retirement plan with generous company contribution
- We pride ourselves in investing in our employees by offering onsite training and the ability to have unlimited growth
potential within our organization - We believe in rewarding our employees with performance-based salary increases
CLICK HERE to watch a video and learn more about us!
Additional Details :
Resource Label Group, LLC (RLG) is a leading full-service provider of label and packaging solutions with a diverse product offering which includes pressure sensitive labels, shrink sleeves, RFID/NFC technology, sustainable product solutions, scent activation technology, pharmaceutical packaging and fulfillment services. Resource Label provides products and services for the food, beverage, chemical, household products, personal care, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, medical device, and technology industries. With locations across the U.S. and Canada, RLG provides national leadership and scale to deliver capabilities, technologies, systems, and creative solutions that customers require.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Manufacturing
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote system administrator jobs.
- 3-5 years of experience administering Windows Server or Linux in a production environment
- Proficiency with Active Directory, Group Policy, and user account lifecycle management
- Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V
- Familiarity with backup, disaster recovery, and patch management tools and processes
- CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, or equivalent vendor certification preferred
- Associate or bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field
Tips for Your Remote System Administrator Job Search
Prove your remote infrastructure experience upfront
List the remote access tools, monitoring platforms, and cloud environments you manage directly in your resume summary. Employers hiring remote system administrators want to see Ansible, Terraform, Azure, or AWS before they call you, not during the interview.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote system administrator openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and apply directly without sorting through unrelated postings.
Show async communication skills in your application
Remote system administrator teams rely on written documentation and async updates. Reference specific examples of runbooks, incident reports, or internal wikis you have written, because distributed teams hire people who communicate clearly in writing without prompting.
Target remote-first employers and managed service providers
Companies built around remote work already have the tooling, onboarding, and management practices for distributed system administrators. Managed service providers in particular hire remote system administrators regularly to support multiple client environments from a single location.
Remote System Administrator Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote system administrator job?
Target companies that are already remote-first or run distributed infrastructure teams, since those employers are built to onboard and support remote system administrators from day one. Remote hiring managers screen heavily for self-direction, clear written communication, and the ability to document systems without prompting. Certifications like CompTIA Network+, Microsoft Azure, or AWS give you an edge, as does demonstrated experience with remote access tools, VPNs, and ticketing systems like Jira or ServiceNow.
Which companies hire remote system administrators?
Employers currently hiring remote system administrators include Jack Henry & Associates, SAIC, and BV Teck, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Remote-first software companies, managed service providers, and distributed healthcare and fintech teams tend to hire system administrators remotely at the highest volumes.
Can you get a remote system administrator job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level roles are harder to land than in-office ones because employers expect you to troubleshoot and escalate independently without a senior colleague nearby. Your strongest substitute for experience is a home lab, a GitHub repo showing scripted automation, or a CompTIA A+ or Network+ certification. Smaller remote-first startups and managed service providers are more open to junior hires than large enterprises.
Do you need a degree for remote system administrator jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers weigh practical skills and certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator or Red Hat Certified System Administrator, more heavily than a four-year degree for system administrator roles. A portfolio of real infrastructure work, documented runbooks, and scripting samples often carries more weight than a diploma when hiring managers are evaluating remote candidates.
Which industries hire the most remote system administrators?
Remote system administrator roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Manufacturing, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Those sectors rely on distributed teams and cloud infrastructure that must be maintained and secured by system administrators working across multiple time zones and locations.
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