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System Administrator

Mitchell1, San Diego, CA, United States


Come work for a SaaS company that is a leader in the automotive repair industry and has the stability that only a 100+-year-old company can offer.

We are Mitchell 1, a division of Snap-on Inc. For over 100 years, Mitchell 1 has been a leader in providing information solutions that make everyday tasks easier for automotive professionals. Over the years, Mitchell 1’s products have evolved to keep pace with the industry and technological advances.

We are looking for a System Administrator with expert‑level technical expertise in Windows and Linux Server Administration.

The System Administrator provides technical leadership and hands‑on responsibility for building, managing, maintaining, and optimizing the performance of physical and virtual systems, helps ensure data integrity, availability, and security by performing tasks like installation, configuration, backup management, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and implementing system security measures, while collaborating with application developers and IT operations to support critical business and commercial systems.

Responsibilities:

Supports projects to maintain the system lifecycle

Ensure performance, security, scalability, and availability of enterprise systems

Perform technical troubleshooting to diagnose, isolate, and correct performance, availability, or functional system issues

Contributes to system hardware and software lifecycle and capacity planning, implementation, and maintenance

Performs system upgrades and deployments

Improves, maintains, and executes disaster recovery capability

Creates and maintains system logging, monitoring, and alerting

Documents system processes, procedures, and maintains asset management

Participates in on‑call rotation, incident response, and is an escalation resource

Requirements:

Experience with server infrastructure responsibilities in combination of physical and virtual server installation/maintenance involving Linux, Windows Server, Hyper‑V (or other clustered hypervisor experience such as VMware or Nutanix)

required

Experience with highly available redundant solutions, including load‑balancing and clustering

required

Experience with Microsoft Active Directory administration

preferred

Experience with SAN/Storage technologies, such as Dell, PureStorage, and Isilon

preferred

Experience with Hybrid/Public cloud experience with Azure or AWS

preferred

Experience in network troubleshooting and packet capture analysis

preferred

Experience with Backup and Recovery

preferred

Qualifications

B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology, related discipline, or equivalent experience (required)

Microsoft and Linux certifications (preferred)

Minimum of 3 years, 5 years or more preferred, of system administration experience in a combined Microsoft Windows and Linux environment

This is a full‑time, on‑site position based at Mitchell 1’s headquarters in San Diego, operating Monday through Friday.

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