Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo Group is seeking an experienced and highly motivated System Administrator to join our Network Automation Software Engineering team. Our team develops and maintains the software platforms, microservices, and automation solutions that enable the provisioning, configuration, and management of Zayo's large-scale telecommunications network infrastructure.

In this role, you will be responsible for the availability, performance, reliability, security, and ongoing maintenance of the infrastructure and development platforms that support our network automation ecosystem. These systems are critical to both our software engineering workflows and the operational capabilities of Zayo's network.

You will administer and support a variety of platforms, including Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Docker Swarm, and other supporting development, deployment, and automation technologies. Your responsibilities will include system administration, software installation and upgrades, performance tuning, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and proactive maintenance.

The ideal candidate is a highly capable Linux system administrator who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems, takes ownership of system reliability, and is comfortable working with both traditional Linux infrastructure and modern containerized application environments. You will work closely with software engineers and network engineering teams to ensure our platforms are stable, performant, secure, and capable of meeting evolving business and technical requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Systems Administration & Infrastructure Management
• Platform Administration & Support
• Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Reliability
• Security, Maintenance & Lifecycle Management
• Automation & Continuous Improvement
• Collaboration & Operational Ownership

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of professional Linux systems administration experience, supporting production servers, applications, or infrastructure platforms.
• Strong Linux expertise is required, including proficiency with the command line, system configuration, service management, package management, networking, storage, permissions, and process troubleshooting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), including installation, configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Experience supporting GitLab in a self-managed environment, including GitLab Runners, CI/CD execution infrastructure, backups, and upgrades.

What Success Looks Like

Maintain high availability and reliable performance of the systems that support network automation and software development.

Why Join Our Team?

At Zayo, network automation plays a critical role in supporting the scale, reliability, and operational efficiency of our telecommunications infrastructure.