Forterra

IT SRE / System Administrator

Forterra

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Virginia

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Salary

💰 $120,000 - $150,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AnsibleCloudLinuxTerraform

About the role

  • Serve as the go-to IT expert in the newly launched Arlington office, combining Site Reliability Engineering, System Administration, and Tier 1 onsite support
  • Provide hands-on AV and conferencing support, handle local IT onboarding, and resolve high-priority user issues quickly and professionally
  • Act as a liaison between users and corporate IT teams, translating needs into action
  • Manage and optimize local infrastructure, including physical and virtual servers (Proxmox experience a plus)
  • Deploy and manage internal services with a bias toward infrastructure as code, observability, and automation
  • Ensure secure, scalable, and resilient systems covering authentication, backups, and related services
  • Design, implement, and maintain robust networking for office, lab, and meeting spaces; monitor and troubleshoot LAN/WAN performance, VPN access, and secure remote connectivity
  • Implement tooling, automation, and observability to support production and development environments
  • Participate in uptime and performance improvement initiatives for internal and cloud-based systems
  • Champion CI/CD, configuration management, proactive alerting, and monitoring

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in IT
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field or equivalent experience
  • CompTIA Network+ or similar networking certifications
  • Clear and concise communicator, not shy to show initiative
  • Excellent working knowledge of computer systems, security, network and systems administration, databases and data storage systems
  • Experience with tech stack: Palo Alto, Juniper, Proxmox, Ansible, Terraform, Datadog, PowerShell, Git, Linux and Windows Server
  • Firm grasp on IT infrastructure and operations best practices
  • Proactive, self-directed, and comfortable being the face of IT in the office
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills — approachable, reliable, and calm under pressure
  • Demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
  • Demonstrated ability to create innovative solutions that create exceptional collaborative environments
  • Preferred: M365 GCC High experience
  • Preferred: NIST800-171 / CMMC experience
  • Preferred: Experience in a start-up or similar fast-paced environment