ELM Utility Services, with a team of over 1700 employees
nationwide, is offering a great opportunity for a System Administrator /
Network Engineer in the Missoula, Montana area. This position can be offered as
a hybrid position to the right candidate pending interview. In this role your
job will be to help operate and secure our hybrid environment across two
physical locations and Azure. This is a hands-on role focused on reliability,
security, and network design—especially network segmentation and control implementation
aligned with SOC 2 Type II expectations.
Our Total Rewards Package Includes:
• Optional benefits like Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA, H.S.A.,
and Teladoc.
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Paid-Time Off (PTO) for vacation and sick time
• 6
Paid Holidays
• 401(k) plan
• Bonuses for milestone anniversaries
• Competitive pay based on experience
• Long
history of stable employment and promoting from within
• Opportunity to lead and modernize production systems with meaningful
operational impact
Roles & Responsibilities:
Infrastructure & Systems Support (core)
- Handle escalated (Tier
3) tickets from the service desk: AD account changes, GPO troubleshooting,
permissions issues, shared resource problems - Perform routine Windows
Server maintenance: patching, health checks, and scheduled reboots during
approved change windows - Assist with VMware
ESXi/vSphere operations under senior guidance (VM provisioning from
templates, snapshot lifecycle, capacity monitoring) - Monitor Nimble storage
health, alerts, and capacity; escalate anomalies with clear context - Execute and verify
backup jobs; participate in scheduled restore tests - Respond to monitoring
alerts — resolve what you can, escalate the rest with good notes
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in systems administration and/or network engineering in
a Windows/VMware environment
• Proven experience designing and implementing network segmentation in a business
environment
• Experience operating security controls in a compliance-driven organization (SOC
2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, etc. — SOC 2 a strong plus)
• Technical Skills (strongly preferred)
• Azure
networking (VNets, NSGs, UDRs, VPN gateways, private endpoints)
• SonicWall
administration (policies, NAT, VPNs, security services)
• Routing/switching fundamentals and VLAN/subnet design
• Network segmentation implementation (ACLs, firewall zoning, micro-segmentation
concepts, tiered network models)
• VMware ESXi/vSphere administration
• Nimble storage (or comparable SAN/NAS experience)
• Windows Server and Active Directory (AD DS/DNS/DHCP/GPO)
• Centralized logging/monitoring tools (Datadog, Splunk, Sentinel, etc.)
• Endpoint/device management (Intune) and security tools (Defender, EDR)
• Scripting/automation (PowerShell, Python) for operational tasks
• Wireless infrastructure management and NAC concepts (802.1X, RADIUS,
conditional access tied to device posture)
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