Systems Administrator

Array is a financial innovation platform that helps digital brands, financial institutions, and fintechs get compelling consumer products to market faster. We deliver a suite of credit and identity monitoring tools, privacy protection, and a financial ads marketplace via embeddable widgets or a clean, modern API.  Our private label offerings help drive revenue and increase engagement for our customers while empowering millions of consumers to achieve their financial goals.

As a remote-first company, we’re focused on providing opportunities for high performing individuals to have deep impact in the fast growing fintech space. A clear mission, a commitment to continuous improvement and a willingness to experiment empower us individually and together deliver the best products for our clients and users.

As a System Administrator at Array, you will support and operate our on premises and hybrid infrastructure, working closely with senior systems engineers, site reliability, database, and cloud teams. This role focuses on day to day system reliability, maintenance, and incremental improvement of our data center and virtualized environments. You will help reduce operational risk by sharing ownership of critical infrastructure and ensuring systems are stable, secure, and well documented. This is a full time position reporting to the SRE Manager.

All engineering roles at Array participate in on-call rotations after a ramp and training period. This role will require availability for occasional evening or weekend maintenance windows.

Preferred location in the New York metro area or the ability to commute to the data center as needed.

You will:

• Support and maintain Windows and Linux virtual machines to ensure availability and performance.
• Assist with VMware administration, including provisioning VMs, managing templates, and monitoring resource usage.
• Help maintain and improve backup, patching, and monitoring processes across the data center.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to infrastructure incidents as needed.
• Perform routine maintenance and assist with scheduled change windows.
• Document system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps.
• Work closely with senior engineers to learn best practices and help reduce technical debt.
• Collaborate with cloud, database, and application teams to support hybrid environments and improve operational reliability.
• Maintain a habit of using AI tools to think, build, and ship faster—it’s your default, not an afterthought.

You have:

• 2+ years of direct experience administering Windows Server environments, including Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, DNS, DHCP, and IIS.
• Experience working with VMware environments such as vCenter and ESXi, including provisioning virtual machines, managing templates, and monitoring resource usage.
• Working knowledge of Linux system administration, including user and access management, patching, troubleshooting, and basic performance analysis.
• Comfort scripting and automating tasks using tools such as PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, or similar automation frameworks.
• Experience supporting backup and recovery solutions such as Veeam, including validation and restore workflows.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools such as Zabbix, Checkly, or similar platforms used in on premises environments.
• Basic to intermediate understanding of networking concepts, including routing, VLANs, firewalls, load balancing, and general troubleshooting.
• Exposure to firewall and network segmentation technologies such as NSX T or equivalent platforms.
• Comfort working with Docker and containerized workloads in support or operational contexts.
• Experience managing SSL certificates, reverse proxies, and load balancers such as Traefik.
• Working knowledge of Git for version control and collaboration.
• Ability to work with physical hardware when needed, including racking equipment, replacing drives, and basic cabling tasks.
• Strong documentation habits, with the ability to clearly capture system configurations, procedures, and changes in tools like Confluence.
• A mindset oriented toward ownership, learning, and growing into broader infrastructure responsibility over time.
• Preferred experience with data center networking, including routing and troubleshooting.
• A belief that AI is reshaping work, you instinctively use it to accelerate everything you do.

Pay transparency: $110,000 + for base salary, depending on experience.

Expected interview process: Recruiter Conversation - Hiring Manager Interview - Loop round. 

Array Offers All Full Time Employees the following Benefits and Perks: 

• Full medical, dental, and vision, premiums covered at 100% for full-time employees and 70% for dependents
• Unlimited PTO and sick leave + 14 company holidays to encourage a healthy work-life blend
• 100% 401k match up to 4% with immediate vesting 
• Generous and competitive parental leave for all parents
• $1,000 desk setup subsidy to set-up your unique remote office 
• $100/month to subsidize wifi/cell phone expenses
• Summer Fridays (half-day Fridays) typically from late May to the end of August
• AnniversArray Kits for work anniversaries

Not sure if you meet the Qualifications? We know that folks tend to only apply if they check every box. If you think you have the appropriate qualifications, but don’t meet every single one, we encourage you to still apply. We’d love to hear from you.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace; we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Array will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants—if you need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please email [email protected] to make your request.