Top Remote IT Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Develop and configure ServiceNow applications, workflows, scripts, and custom solutions to automate business processes. The role involves collaborating with customers, troubleshooting applications and integrations, supporting deployments, ensuring software compliance, evaluating system interfaces, and documenting testing and maintenance. Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree and relevant ServiceNow development experience. The position is fully remote, requires U.S. citizenship, and involves no travel or security clearance.

Manages relationships and operations between the WTCHP third-party administrator and Clinical Centers of Excellence. Serves as the internal subject matter expert on CCE workflows, coordinates cross-functional teams, resolves escalations, supports process improvements, facilitates business reviews, and provides operational insights, reporting, and network support. The role manages executive-level provider relationships, ensures compliance with CDC and WTCHP requirements, and supervises at least two staff members.

Provides on-call proposal and capture support as a color reviewer for key milestones. Evaluates proposal content for compliance, clarity, persuasiveness, customer alignment, competitive positioning, and win themes. Identifies gaps and risks, delivers actionable feedback, and collaborates with Proposal Managers and Capture Leads to improve quality and win probability. Maintains confidentiality and participates in scheduled virtual reviews, sometimes on short notice.

Administers, configures, secures, and optimizes Databricks workspaces across development, test, and production environments. Manages clusters, jobs, workflows, access controls, governance, monitoring, troubleshooting, backups, and cost optimization. Automates provisioning and policy enforcement through infrastructure as code and integrates Databricks with CI/CD pipelines. Provides Tier 2/3 support, documentation, user training, and technical guidance to data engineering, analytics, and data science teams.

Provides production database administration and support for mission-critical environments, including performance monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, security, and availability. Develops SQL Server database objects, ETL pipelines, dimensional models, data marts, dashboards, and Splunk monitoring solutions. Designs cloud and hybrid database architectures, performs data migrations, validates data integrity, and collaborates with stakeholders on technical requirements and analytics solutions within an Agile environment.

Leads the company’s IT function, directing multidisciplinary teams across IT operations, security, cloud infrastructure, Microsoft 365, SaaS applications, and end-user services. Executes the CTO’s technology roadmap, advances ITSM/ITIL maturity, maintains business continuity, oversees vendors and procurement, supports compliance, manages budgets, and provides executive reporting. The Director also recruits and develops the IT organization, partners with software engineering and people operations, and ensures secure, reliable, scalable technology services across affiliated companies.

Owns IT systems administration and security operations for a fully remote workforce. Responsibilities include managing Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, endpoint and identity platforms, security tools, access controls, threat monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, compliance evidence, disaster recovery, vendor relationships, reporting, and operational roadmaps.

Lead global sourcing strategy for IT and indirect categories, drive cost savings and supplier optimization, manage high-value negotiations and supplier risk, partner with cross-functional stakeholders, standardize processes, champion procurement transformation, and develop a global sourcing team.

Build and maintain React single-page applications with responsive, accessible interfaces for financial reconciliation and exception-management workflows. Integrate secure REST APIs, implement protected routing and state management, optimize data-rich screens, and troubleshoot asynchronous UI behavior. Collaborate with backend, reporting, ingestion, QA, product, and DevOps teams while documenting components, UX standards, and integration contracts.

Design and develop Java microservices, REST APIs, ingestion pipelines, reconciliation workflows, and JasperReports solutions. Write SQL for data validation and reporting, integrate with legacy Datacom/CICS systems, and perform unit, integration, API, batch, and end-to-end testing. Troubleshoot application and data issues, support UAT and defect triage, modernize PACER reporting, and collaborate with stakeholders, vendors, business users, and cross-functional teams.

Leads the strategic direction of backend and full-stack engineering, architects scalable distributed systems and microservices, and drives modernization, reliability, security, and performance initiatives. Designs APIs, data architectures, pipelines, infrastructure, and observability practices; delivers customer-facing service improvements; establishes engineering standards; and mentors engineers. Collaborates across product and technical teams to make architecture and business trade-offs and lead large-scale initiatives from vision through production.

Administer workforce tools by managing user accounts, permissions, licenses, onboarding, and offboarding. Track tool adoption, compliance, license utilization, and costs. Create Excel dashboards and recurring management reports, resolve access issues, coordinate with vendors, and identify usage anomalies or underutilized licenses. The role is fully onsite in Gurugram on a 5:00 PM–2:00 AM IST US shift.

Leads IT strategy execution, portfolio governance, PMO and program delivery, financial planning, procurement coordination, vendor oversight, executive reporting, and enterprise transformation. Translates business priorities into technology roadmaps, investment plans, operating models, and measurable outcomes. Advises the VP of IT, manages cross-functional barriers, strengthens governance and accountability, optimizes technology spending, and leads multidisciplinary teams across strategy, delivery, finance, procurement, and vendor management.

Own Stratus’s internal IT environment, including Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, identity access, SaaS applications, endpoint management, hardware assets, onboarding and offboarding, employee support, and compliance controls. Automate provisioning, license reconciliation, access reviews, and audit evidence collection using scripting and AI tools. Administer security, VPN, password management, documentation, and SOC 2/NIST-related processes while supporting a distributed workforce.

Creates and maintains program reports, supports ePMO operations, troubleshoots ServiceNow issues, assists with reporting migrations, and identifies milestones, risks, and project events. The role facilitates schedule reviews, maintains program records, documents lessons learned, and collaborates with technical and nontechnical stakeholders. It requires experience with ServiceNow, ePMO or similar platforms, cloud solutions, requirements analysis, risk management, and federal program support.

Designs, deploys, modernizes, and supports secure AWS and hybrid-cloud environments. Responsibilities include cloud architecture, networking, IAM, infrastructure as code, automation, observability, incident response, security, migrations, disaster recovery, and platform reliability. The role also mentors engineers, documents technical solutions, evaluates emerging technologies, and applies AI-assisted engineering, AIOps, and cloud capabilities for AI and data workloads.

The Lead Technical Support Engineer resolves complex technical issues, provides mentorship, collaborates with teams, and improves support systems.

Oversee daily IT service delivery across service desk, infrastructure, networks, cloud services, applications, and end-user support. Lead IT staff, contractors, and vendors; manage ITSM processes; ensure system reliability, security, compliance, and lifecycle planning; communicate operational risks and outages; track service metrics; and drive modernization and continuous improvement.

Lead a remote analytics team to deliver dashboards, data products, and decision-support tools. Oversee project plans, stakeholder engagement, data platform modernization, ETL/automation, Tableau/Power BI deployments, statistical modeling, QA, metadata, and staff mentoring to support federal social service programs.

Coordinates IT application portfolio governance, documentation, service level agreements, sustainment plans, reporting, dashboards, meetings, and executive communications. Maintains accurate portfolio information, supports cross-functional collaboration between business and technical teams, develops governance processes and training materials, and identifies improvements to reporting, documentation, operational efficiency, and application management practices.

Own FAR.AI’s internal IT and security function, including accounts, devices, identity and access management, onboarding, offboarding, office networking, support, endpoint hardening, data protection, governance, and vendor risk. The role will remediate security gaps using threat modeling, automate self-service infrastructure, partner across teams, communicate and manage change, and hire and lead an IT Coordinator.

Support global infrastructure as an SME across databases, servers, networks, storage, and application platforms. Provide medium-to-high complexity run-the-business support, incident resolution, project resources, requirements gathering, solution implementation, knowledge articles, and mentoring. Cover 24/7 shifts as required.

Leads IT integration projects for acquired businesses, managing requirements, scopes, vendor SOWs, development, QA, testing, cutover, communications, training, and project tracking. Oversees the IT Specialist and Salesforce Administrator while coordinating with legal, business development, developers, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders. Requires strong project management, communication, analytical, multitasking, and Agile/Scrum skills.

Own Flex’s IT and corporate security function as a hands-on senior individual contributor. Responsibilities include identity and access management, joiner-mover-leaver processes, Okta and Google Workspace administration, endpoint and MDM programs, SaaS governance, access reviews, security policies, awareness training, MSP management, and automation using scripts and internal tooling. The role partners with security, People, Finance, and Legal while maintaining corporate security posture across a distributed workforce.

Provide senior technical leadership and architectural oversight for large-scale EHR ecosystems. Define enterprise engineering strategy and roadmaps, ensure interoperability, scalability, availability, and cybersecurity, lead architectural governance and incident RCA, mentor engineering teams, coordinate with product owners and integrators, evaluate emerging technologies, and support proposals and customer engagements.