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We are committed to lowering our environmental impact and meeting our sustainability targets, by providing kids and adults with healthy, nutritious, and delicious products that are made with care for animals, people, and the planet.\nAbout the Role\nThe IT Systems Administrator maintains secure, reliable technology across Clover Sonoma's corporate office, dairy bottling plant, and distribution warehouse in the Petaluma area. The role also supports technology used by route drivers.\nThis hands-on role manages daily system administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and recovery. The administrator works with Clover IT, the Alpina IT Transformation team, operations, engineering, and service providers to keep manufacturing, distribution, and office systems available.\nA Day in the Life\nAdminister Windows Server, VMware, storage, and AWS infrastructure; monitor system health, performance, and capacity, and resolve issues before they disrupt operations.\n\nManage Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, file permissions, and printing; administer user accounts, access, multifactor authentication, and collaboration services through onboarding, role changes, and offboarding.\n\nManage backups, disaster recovery, failover, and business continuity; verify backup integrity, test recovery procedures, and document results and corrective actions with IT leadership and service providers.\n\nInstall system, application, and firmware updates through approved change procedures, including maintenance scheduling, validation, and rollback planning.\n\nMaintain endpoint protection, secure configurations, vulnerability remediation, privileged access, and security logs; support cybersecurity incident containment and recovery.\n\nMonitor system availability, performance, storage utilization, and logs; investigate alerts, resolve issues, and escalate risks before they affect business operations.\n\nAdminister Microsoft SQL Server and support infrastructure for ERP, web services, and other business applications in coordination with application owners and specialist providers.\n\nResolve incidents and service requests affecting manufacturing, warehousing, shipping, route delivery, and office operations; document root causes and corrective actions, communicate progress, and confirm resolution with users.\n\nMaintain accurate system and network documentation, asset inventories, license and warranty records, and operating and recovery procedures.\n\nUse PowerShell or similar tools to automate routine tasks and improve consistency through documented, approved processes.\n\nWork with vendors on troubleshooting, repairs, replacements, upgrades, and migrations; participate in after-hours support and escalation as assigned.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent education and relevant experience.\n\nThree or more years of hands-on systems administration or infrastructure support experience.\n\nExperience with Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, file permissions, virtualization, and storage.\n\nExperience with backups, system restoration, disaster-recovery testing, identity and access, endpoint management, patching, and security controls.\n\nAbility to troubleshoot system and application-access issues, prioritize incidents, and follow problems through resolution.\n\nAbility to document work clearly, follow change procedures, and communicate with technical and nontechnical teams.\n\nAbility to work onsite, travel among Petaluma-area facilities, and provide scheduled or emergency after-hours support.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in food, beverage, consumer goods, manufacturing, distribution, or transportation, including support for plant-floor, warehouse, route-driver, mobile-device, or operational technology environments.\n\nExperience with AWS, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Microsoft SQL Server, SAN storage, Veeam, Carbonite, or comparable platforms.\n\nFamiliarity with SAP infrastructure connectivity, Cisco Meraki, mobile-device management, IT service-management tools, and RingCentral or comparable voice platforms.\n\nExperience with PowerShell, automation, system upgrades, and infrastructure migrations.\n\nBilingual proficiency in English and Spanish.\n\nRelevant Microsoft, AWS, VMware, Cisco, CompTIA, ITIL, or comparable certifications.\n\nCore Competencies\nTechnical depth and practical judgment\n\nSecurity awareness and attention to detail\n\nOperational urgency and dependable follow-through\n\nRoot-cause analysis and structured problem solving\n\nCross-functional collaboration and clear communication\n\nContinuous improvement and disciplined change management\n\nWork Environment and Physical Requirements\nThis role operates primarily in an office environment and regularly supports systems used in active dairy manufacturing, warehouse, and distribution facilities. The employee may occasionally enter production, cold-storage, warehouse, loading, or yard areas and must follow all required safety, food-safety, sanitation, security, and personal protective equipment rules. The role requires regular use of a computer and may require work outside normal business hours to support critical incidents, maintenance windows, upgrades, or implementations. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nWhat You Bring to the Team\nOperationally accountable: Takes ownership of assigned systems and follows issues through diagnosis, communication, resolution, and prevention.\n\nCalm under pressure: Prioritizes effectively and communicates clearly during disruptions affecting manufacturing, distribution, or route delivery.\n\nCollaborative: Builds trusted working relationships across IT, operations, facilities, engineering, drivers, and external providers while maintaining strong service standards.\n\nPractical and improvement oriented: Balances urgency, security, and business impact while strengthening system reliability, documentation, and everyday operating practices.\n\nBased in Petaluma, California, in the heart of beautiful Sonoma County, Clover Sonoma offers high quality dairy sourced from its network of local family farms. A pioneer in sustainable dairy farming Clover has the largest organic acreage of regeneratively farmed land in the state and is committed to reducing its carbon footprint by lowering on-farm methane emissions, regenerative farming practices focused on soil health and packaging innovation. The first dairy in the US to become American Humane certified across all of its farms, Clover has delivered on its promise of producing the highest-quality dairy products - including milk, cheese, butter, and more - for more than a century.\nAs a Certified B Corporation® Clover gives back 5% of net profits to help make nutritious food more accessible and uses its business as a power for good across its support for people, farms, animals, community and planet.\nFor more information, please visit www.cloversonoma.com and join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7286,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Spanish","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":true},{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":true}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Prepared Foods"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-03T18:13:13Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":125000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/clover-sonoma-it-systems-administrator","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/clover-sonoma-it-systems-administrator.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T04:44:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11028,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":674749},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=674749"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fclover-sonoma-it-systems-administrator"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fclover-sonoma-it-systems-administrator"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fclover-sonoma-it-systems-administrator"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/clover-sonoma-it-systems-administrator\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fclover-sonoma-it-systems-administrator"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3696282}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"cloversonoma.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3696282},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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