Systems Administrator

Role Overview Title: Systems Administrator Hours: Full-time; salaried Location: Salt Lake City, UT (on-site, with hybrid flexibility) Benefits Eligible: Yes Manager: Head of IT Mission – Why we exist and why we need you Geothermal energy is the most abundant renewable energy source in the world. There is 2,300 times more energy in geothermal heat in the ground than in oil, gas, coal, and methane combined. However, historically it’s been hard to find and expensive to develop. At Zanskar, we’re using better technology to find and develop new geothermal resources in order to make geothermal a cheap and vital contributor to a carbon-free electrical grid. The IT team keeps our geoscientists, engineers, and operations staff equipped, connected, and secure so they can focus on finding and developing the next generation of geothermal resources. As we grow, the Systems Administrator will take hands-on ownership of the systems our people depend on every day — their devices, accounts, network, and cloud tools — and help us scale that foundation reliably and securely. Outcomes – Problems you’ll solve Success in this role at six months looks like a device fleet and a set of core systems that largely run themselves — and a team that rarely has to wonder whether their tools will just work. By then, you will have taken day-to-day ownership of endpoint management across our macOS and Windows fleet, standardizing enrollment, configuration, and patching through our MDM platform so that a new hire’s laptop is ready on day one and a departing employee’s access is cleanly revoked. You will be administering user identity and access through our single sign-on / identity provider — provisioning accounts, enforcing multi-factor authentication, and reasoning about least-privilege access across dozens of SaaS applications. You will know our office network and security stack — firewall policy and VLAN segmentation, enterprise Wi-Fi, managed switching, and our zero-trust remote-access layer — we