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Systems Administrator

Salt Lake City, UT
onsite
Temporary / Contract
41.1635 - 47.663 USD / Hourly
We are looking for a senior Systems Administrator to join our client’s team in Salt Lake City, Utah on a Contract basis. This role is suited for an experienced Tier 3 infrastructure specialist who excels at resolving high-impact technical challenges across complex environments. The position combines advanced troubleshooting, cross-functional collaboration, and technical leadership to support stable, secure, and high-performing systems. Responsibilities: • Tackle advanced escalations involving servers, networks, cloud services, and enterprise platforms, acting as the highest internal technical resource before external vendors are engaged. • Provide hands-on support at client sites when critical infrastructure problems require direct intervention to restore services quickly and effectively. • Drive timely closure of Tier 3 service requests and major incidents while maintaining strong accountability for service quality and operational outcomes. • Guide entry-level support staff by sharing expertise, strengthening troubleshooting practices, and helping teams make appropriate escalation decisions. • Lead post-incident investigations to identify root causes, document technical findings, and recommend preventive measures that improve long-term reliability. • Partner with infrastructure, security, and project stakeholders to plan, deploy, and support sophisticated technology solutions across client environments. • Monitor service performance through documentation platforms, ticketing tools, and reporting dashboards to ensure visibility into trends, response metrics, and support effectiveness. • Participate in the on-call rotation and take ownership of urgent after-hours issues, ensuring critical incidents receive prompt and effective resolution.
2026-10-21T00:00:00Z

Systems Administrator

Park City, UT
remote
Temporary / Contract
35.625 - 41.25 USD / Hourly
We are looking for a Systems Administrator to join a contract engagement based in Park City, Utah. This role is suited for an experienced Windows infrastructure specialist who can evaluate legacy server environments, uncover operational dependencies, and provide clear recommendations for next steps. The assignment will focus on assessing existing systems, documenting their business purpose, and helping stakeholders decide whether platforms should remain in place, be moved, or be retired. Responsibilities: • Conduct a detailed review of legacy Windows servers to determine their current role, usage, and operational status across the environment. • Investigate hosted applications, background services, and system dependencies to build an accurate picture of each server's function. • Partner with technical and business stakeholders to confirm which business processes rely on identified infrastructure. • Document findings from discovery activities and translate technical details into practical recommendations for retention, migration, or decommissioning. • Analyze Active Directory and Windows domain relationships to identify connectivity, access, and dependency considerations. • Assess server configurations and supporting components, including Microsoft Azure, Kaseya, and SQL Server-related environments where applicable. • Create clear inventories, assessment summaries, and risk notes to support future infrastructure modernization planning. • Provide informed guidance on remediation priorities and next-step actions based on the condition and relevance of legacy systems.
2026-10-21T00:00:00Z

Security Database Administrator

Ogden, UT
onsite
Permanent / Full Time
120000 - 150000 USD / Yearly
Security-focused Database Administrator responsible for protecting enterprise Oracle and IBM DB2 environments. This role owns database hardening, least-privilege access control, activity monitoring, and audit/compliance readiness across on-premises and cloud platforms. The ideal candidate blends deep DBA fundamentals with a security-first mindset and hands-on experience with database security tooling.Key Responsibilities<ul><li>Administer and secure production and non-production Oracle and IBM DB2 databases, with security controls as a primary responsibility rather than an afterthought.</li><li>Manage Oracle Data Safe end to end: security assessments, user risk assessments, sensitive data discovery, data masking, activity auditing, and SQL Firewall policy management.</li><li>Design, implement, and maintain row-based access controls — Oracle Virtual Private Database (VPD), Oracle Label Security, and Real Application Security; DB2 Row and Column Access Control (RCAC) and Label-Based Access Control (LBAC).</li><li>Own user maintenance and access governance: account provisioning and deprovisioning, roles, privileges, grants/revokes, profiles, and password/authentication policies.</li><li>Conduct periodic access reviews and recertification; enforce separation of duties and least-privilege principles.</li><li>Deploy, configure, tune, and monitor Imperva (Database Activity Monitoring / Data Security Fabric / database firewall): policies, alerting, blocking rules, and audit reporting.</li></ul>
2026-10-14T00:00:00Z

Systems Security Engineer

West Valley City, UT
onsite
Permanent / Full Time
145000 - 165000 USD / Yearly
Want to build security, not just maintain it?This isn’t a role where you’ll inherit a mature security program, spend your days updating policies, or stay buried in one narrow piece of the environment.We’re looking for an experienced security focused Systems Engineer who wants to take real ownership of security and compliance while staying hands-on with the technology behind it.You’ll serve as a go-to security expert across the organization, partnering closely with IT leadership to strengthen the security program, advance CMMC and NIST compliance, and tackle infrastructure and systems initiatives along the way.And yes, there’s a pretty great perk: work four 10-hour days and get a three-day weekend every week. Why This Role Is DifferentThis is a newly created position, which means there’s an opportunity to put your fingerprints on the security program rather than simply stepping into someone else’s playbook.You’ll have:<ul><li>Ownership: Help build, mature, and operationalize the security and compliance program.</li><li>Executive visibility: Work closely with IT leadership and the CTO on security strategy, risk, and framework roadmaps.</li><li>Hands-on technical work: Security is the priority, but you’ll still work with systems, infrastructure, identity, endpoints, networking, Microsoft 365, and cloud technologies.</li><li>Autonomy: You’ll be trusted to own projects, make recommendations, communicate risk, and drive initiatives forward.</li><li>Variety: Work across security, compliance, infrastructure, and systems rather than being siloed into one narrow function.</li><li>A 4/10 schedule: Four workdays. Three-day weekends. Enough said.</li></ul>What You’ll OwnYour center of gravity will be security and compliance, particularly within a government contracting environment.You’ll:<ul><li>Drive readiness and ongoing compliance for CMMC Level 2 and NIST SP 800-171.</li><li>Support SOC 2 and PCI DSS initiatives, including control design, evidence collection, remediation, and audit coordination.</li><li>Take security and infrastructure projects from idea to implementation, managing timelines, stakeholders, vendors, risks, and deliverables.</li><li>Administer and improve security technologies across endpoint protection, IAM, SIEM, MFA, email security, vulnerability management, and logging.</li><li>Lead access reviews, security awareness efforts, phishing simulations, and incident-response tabletop exercises.</li><li>Develop the policies, procedures, and security plans required for compliance, then make sure those controls actually work in the real world.</li><li>Partner with leadership on security risk, vendor reviews, customer requirements, and business decisions.</li><li>Roll up your sleeves alongside the IT team on Microsoft 365, Entra ID, servers, networking, endpoints, identity, and other infrastructure initiatives.</li></ul>
2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Staff Database Engineer

Salt Lake City, UT
remote
Temporary to Hire
80 - 95 USD / Hourly
We are looking for a Staff Database Engineer to provide technical leadership for a global cloud data environment supporting large-scale, distributed business operations in Utah. This contract-to-hire position will focus on building and improving secure, highly available database platforms across AWS while partnering with engineering teams to strengthen performance, resilience, and scalability. The role is ideal for someone who brings deep database expertise, strong automation skills, and a practical approach to supporting modern data pipelines and enterprise applications. Responsibilities:• Lead the design and ongoing improvement of multi-region database environments across AWS to support globally distributed workloads.• Administer and enhance a mix of relational and non-relational platforms, including Snowflake, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Cosmos DB, and MongoDB.• Drive database migration efforts between cloud platforms, regional deployments, and legacy environments while minimizing operational risk.• Improve system performance through thoughtful indexing, query refinement, capacity planning, and scalable data architecture decisions.• Strengthen availability and cost efficiency by tuning database platforms for enterprise-scale throughput, resiliency, and low-latency access.• Support data ingestion and ETL workflows by collaborating on services and orchestration tools used across cloud-based pipeline ecosystems.• Establish secure connectivity patterns, access controls, encryption standards, and secrets management practices for database services.• Build and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster preparedness processes, including point-in-time restore capabilities and continuity planning.• Expand monitoring and operational visibility using cloud and third-party observability tools, and take ownership of production incident response when needed.• Create and maintain technical documentation such as runbooks, operational procedures, and architecture decision records to support long-term platform reliability
2026-10-19T00:00:00Z

5 results for Systems Administrator in Salt Lake City, UT