Job Description
Senior Systems Administrator- Cloud, Identity, and Automation
Location Requirements:
- Foster City, CA or Broomfield, Colorado
- In office Monday- Thursday, Remote Fridays
- Periodic travel is required between Foster City, CA and Broomfield, CO.
Bertram Capital is a private equity firm targeting investments in lower middle market companies. Since its inception in 2006, the firm has raised over $4B of capital commitments. Bertram has distinguished itself in the private equity community by combining venture capital operating methodologies with private equity financial discipline to empower its portfolio companies to unlock their full business potential. This approach is unique in that Bertram is not singularly focused on achieving its investment returns through financial engineering and the extraction of near-term cash flow. Instead, Bertram focuses on reinvestment and technology enablement to drive growth and value through digital marketing, e-commerce, big data and analytics, application development and internal and external platform optimization.
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Job Summary:
Bertram Capital is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to support and modernize our internal technology environment across our Foster City, CA, and Denver, CO offices. This role is intended for an enterprise-scale administrator with experience in regulated environments, cloud identity, endpoint operations, automation, and applied AI. This is not a junior help desk role.
Responsibilities
- Administer Microsoft Azure / Entra ID and Microsoft 365 across multiple office locations.
- Partner with the Cybersecurity Analyst, who owns MDM strategy and policy, to implement and operate endpoint tooling.
- Execute migration from legacy on-prem Active Directory to cloud-only authentication for Windows and macOS.
- Provide in-person and remote IT support at Foster City and Denver offices as needed.
- Use remote management tools to monitor, patch, and remediate endpoints.
- Automate deployment, remediation, and reporting workflows using scripting and AI-assisted tools.
- Support audits, access reviews, and compliance evidence collection.
- Provide escalation-level support for executives and critical business systems.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to after-hours incidents.
Innovation, Automation and Working Smarter
- Continuously identify opportunities to reduce manual work through automation and orchestration.
- Apply automation-first and policy-driven approaches to system design and operations.
- Leverage AI-assisted workflows to improve deployment speed, remediation, and reporting.
- Challenge legacy processes and replace them with simpler, more scalable solutions.
- Use data and telemetry to guide operational decisions instead of intuition.
How Success is Measured
Success in this role is not measured by hours worked, visible effort, or ticket volume. It is measured by sustained improvement in day-to-day business execution for employees. The right candidate reduces friction, eliminates repetitive work, improves reliability and security, and leaves systems measurably better than they found them.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of systems administration experience in environments supporting 500+ users.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure / Entra ID and Microsoft 365 administration.
- Experience supporting multi-site organizations.
- Background working in regulated or compliance-driven environments (financial services preferred).
- Experience with endpoint management and remote administration tools.
- Ability to automate operational tasks using scripting, APIs, or AI tooling.
- Ability and willingness to travel periodically between Foster City, CA, and Broomfield, CO.
- Must be located near Foster City, CA, or Broomfield, CO.
Compensation and Benefits
The expected salary range for this position is: $130,000- $150,000 total annual compensation plus additional annual bonus beginning after 1 year of tenure. Offered salary may be based on a variety of factors including skills, experience, and qualifications for the role.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits are provided at no cost to the employee. We offer a generous 401K match as well as a “take what you need” PTO policy.
If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At Bertram Capital we value and celebrate the many perspectives that arise from a variety of cultures, genders, religions, national origins, ages, abilities, socioeconomic status and sexual orientation. Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) ensures that Bertram is a place that attracts, grows, and promotes top talent from all backgrounds.
