Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Systems Administrator

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Agile Mind helps keep the lights on and keeps us moving forward. This role combines infrastructure operations, production deployments, and employee-facing IT support, with a clear path toward ownership of our Linux platform and core services. You’ll spend your time ensuring systems remain reliable, secure, and well documented while supporting the people who depend on them every day. You’ll work directly with the engineers who built and operate the platform, gaining deep knowledge of the system while helping define its next phase of growth. The infrastructure itself is the product of years of thoughtful engineering. While there is still work to do, the foundation is sound and the direction is clear: greater automation, deeper observability, and continual operational improvement., Internal User Support

• Desktop support and help desk for Agile Mind staff across multiple OS and software suites
• Employee onboarding and offboarding execution

Core Operations

• Execute weekly production content deploys via provided Ansible playbooks
• Run hypervisor and VM lifecycle operations (provisioning, decommissioning, basic maintenance)
• Handle DNS, firewall, certificate, and credential requests on existing platforms
• OS patching execution on regular cadence
• Hardware maintenance coordination with colocation facility (smart hands, occasional travel)
• Documentation of all primary functions
• DRP and backup operations
• Monitor and assess infrastructure, network, security, and user incidents
• Serve as primary responder for infrastructure incidents, escalating as needed
• Monitor and document general IT budget

Infrastructure Ownership (after demonstrating mastery of Core Operations)

• Take primary ownership of Linux infrastructure
• Inherit hypervisor architecture, networking, and core services ownership
• Identify, propose, and execute infrastructure improvements

Do you have experience in Version control systems?, * Comfortable with help desk and end-user application support with Windows and MacOS

• 5+ years Linux (Debian) systems administration
• Experience administering Google Workspace
• Ansible (run playbooks confidently; edit in an emergency)
• Version control fluency (SVN/Git)
• Documentation discipline
• Strong incident response and escalation judgment
• Availability to travel to colocation facility (CA) 2-3 times per year
• Scripting (Bash, Python)
• BIND/DNS, VPN, networking, firewall experience

Preferred skills

• Hypervisor experience (Xen)
• Backup technology experience (Borg)

Why join us?

Our product has been serving students and teachers for years, and the infrastructure that powers it reflects that history. We’re at an inflection point: the architecture is sound, our domain knowledge is deep, and the educational technology landscape is evolving rapidly. Schools expect deeper systems integration, more reliable data exchange, and higher levels of service than ever before. This role will help ensure our platform is ready for that future. If you want to do meaningful work supporting a product that actually matters, this is it.

Must be legally available to work in the US.

This is a fully remote, full-time role.

Job Type: Full-time

Pulled from the full job description

• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account, * 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Agile Mind develops programs, tools, and services that empower educators and learners to do the work of teaching and learning more joyfully and more effectively. Our digital and print resources encompass comprehensive curriculum, formative assessment, job-embedded professional support for teachers, student practice, and real-time reporting that are transforming middle- and high-school success in mathematics - regardless of the zip code in which students learn. We do this at scale while lowering instructional costs for education systems.

Our company is a privately funded educational software company that serves thousands of students and teachers. Most importantly, we care passionately about educational equity and believe that all students can achieve.