Senior Systems Administrator presso Ready Foods

About Ready Foods

Ready Foods is a Denver-based, family-owned company with over 50 years of excellence in food manufacturing. We are committed to quality, innovation, and continuous improvement. Our culture promotes inclusion, respect, and servant leadership, and we operate with lean manufacturing principles inspired by the Toyota Production System.

Position Summary

As an integral part of Ready Foods’ vision for a leading-edge infrastructure and smart manufacturing ecosystem, the Senior Systems Administrator plays a key role in driving the company’s digital transformation across both business and factory settings. This position is charged with overseeing the IT infrastructure—including both cloud-based and on-premises environments—and ensuring that enterprise and end-user systems function efficiently and securely. The ideal candidate brings expertise in industry-standard system development, robust cybersecurity practices, and effective troubleshooting within multi-vendor setups, along with a genuine interest in manufacturing and engineering. This full-time role reports directly to the Technology Manager.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for main offices and plants in both a legacy and on-premises IT environment and the modern workplace consisting of office and plant networks, servers and application environments in a hybrid environment.
• Work with cloud technologies, enterprise management systems, and services.
• Work closely with all various functional departments to implement operational requirements for new and existing IT systems.
• Consult with vendors, external contractors, project team members and internal staff to ensure that IT standards are met with hardware/software/security and policies/procedures.
• Ability to rapidly absorb and implement new technologies and procedures.
• Assist in the configuration and management of network and cloud attached devices, monitor performance, Remote Access solutions and security.

• Perform regular data backups and assist in disaster recovery planning and testing.

• Monitor IT security alerts and respond to potential threats.
• Maintain accurate documentation of system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related area, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years’ experience analyzing, planning and supporting systems in a large, networked environment with on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
• Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Windows desktop and server operating systems and administration in both cloud and on-prem environments, and associated hardware.
• Working knowledge of Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) technologies and data backup technologies.
• Working knowledge of IT security policies and integration into network, devices, appliances, and server systems.
• Experience solving technical problems and identifying opportunities to automate repetitive processes.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Experience in food manufacturing or a similar industry.

Preferred Skills

• Solid understanding and experience applying manufacturing systems technologies and industrial telemetry.
• Experience with cloud technologies, Microsoft Azure, and SCADA is a plus.
• Demonstrated knowledge across infrastructure disciplines and technologies with a broad understanding of IT standards and methodologies.