{"id":2968567,"url":"https://alion.io/job/the-boundary-it-systems-administrator","title":"IT Systems Administrator","company":{"id":697136,"name":"The Boundary","domain":"the-boundary.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/the-boundary","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Teamtailor","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"inferred_city","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":["Auckland, New Zealand"],"countries":["NZ"],"hiring_countries":["NZ"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Google Workspace","optional":false},{"name":"Hyper-V","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"VPN","optional":false},{"name":"Wi-Fi","optional":false},{"name":"Windows","optional":false},{"name":"Active Directory","optional":true},{"name":"DHCP","optional":true},{"name":"Digital Twin","optional":true},{"name":"DNS","optional":true},{"name":"Microsoft Entra ID","optional":true},{"name":"TCP/IP","optional":true},{"name":"Windows Server","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-20T02:27:05Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-20","last_verified_at":"2026-10-23T07:10:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"About Us\nFor over two decades, The Boundary has been at the forefront of digital excellence. With a global team of 150+ experts across London, New York, Dubai, and Auckland, we partner with the world's leading developers to deliver unparalleled architectural storytelling.\nFounded by award-winning architects, our work sits at the intersection of design intuition and technical mastery. From pioneering digital twin infrastructure to the seamless integration of AI and real-time technology, we don’t just anticipate the future of the industry; we are already building it.\nThe Opportunity\nAre you a proactive IT professional who loves solving hands on technical challenges and keeping systems running seamlessly?\nAs our IT Systems Administrator, you’ll be the go to technical expert for The Boundary’s New Zealand operations. Reporting directly to the CTO in NZ while collaborating with our global IT team, you will take full ownership of local infrastructure, support and hardware reliability.\nThis is a high-impact, individual contributor role where you will operate with autonomy - ensuring our team works securely and efficiently, managing the local IT budget, and keeping our tech stack up to date.\nWhat You'll Do\nYour core responsibilities will include:\nNetwork & Infrastructure Operations: Keep local server, network (LAN, Wi-Fi, VPN, firewalls), and virtualisation environments running smoothly while managing backups, storage health, and disaster recovery readiness in line with global standards.\n\nEnd-User Support & Hardware Lifecycle: Deliver end to end technical support for New Zealand employees, taking full ownership of local helpdesk requests and managing the setup, maintenance, repair, and disposal of workstations and hardware.\n\nIdentity, Access & Security Administration: Administer user onboarding/offboarding across Microsoft and Google Workspace environments while strictly applying least-privilege access, endpoint protection, routine patching, and proactive threat escalation.\n\nRender & Creative IT Infrastructure: Collaborate with technical artists to maintain and troubleshoot render nodes and underlying production IT infrastructure to ensure high-performance reliability for creative workflows.\n\nBudgeting, Procurement & Asset Management: Build and track the NZ IT budget, source vendor quotes, manage equipment purchasing and software licenses, and maintain complete records of local assets, warranties, and supplier agreements.\n\nDocumentation & Continuous Improvement: Create clear technical documentation and user self-help guides, deliver smooth IT onboarding for new hires, and continuously refine local systems in alignment with global IT guidelines.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\nPractical Experience: Proven hands-on capability in supporting Windows workstations, networks, servers, and shared storage, with a strong track record of diagnosing hardware/software faults and seeing issues through to resolution.\n\nCore Technical Stack: Working knowledge of Windows and Windows Server, Microsoft administration (Active Directory, Entra ID, Intune), Google Workspace, and core networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, switching, Wi-Fi, VPNs, firewalls).\n\nSystems & Security Hygiene: Practical experience managing shared storage permissions, backup monitoring, routine patching, endpoint security controls, and asset/license record keeping.\n\nProblem-Solving & Mindset: An independent, methodical approach to troubleshooting with the sound judgment to recognise risks, document findings, turn recurring issues into workflow improvements, and escalate when appropriate.\n\nClear Communication: Ability to communicate patiently and clearly with both technical colleagues and non-technical staff - explaining progress, options, and solutions without unnecessary jargon.\n\nDelivery & Operational Skills: Strong organisational skills to prioritise competing support requests, coordinate supplier services, and prepare clear budget forecasts and purchasing recommendations.\n\nQualifications: Relevant IT qualifications or certifications are a bonus, but practical capability and reliable judgment matter most.\n\nBonus Knowledge: Familiarity with Nasuni, Perforce, Hyper-V, AWS exposure, Thinkbox Deadline, creative applications, or basic scripting is an advantage, but not essential.\n\nBenefits\nMental Health & Wellbeing support through Ignite\n\nGreat learning & development opportunities\n\nFun and collaborative office environment in Freemans Bay\n\nLong service leave policy (one extra day of leave for every year of service)\n\nMonthly health and wellness allowance\n\nRemote working policy\n\nRegular team events and social activities\n\nDog friendly office","description_format":"text","description_chars":4658,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Pet friendly"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"New Zealand","iso":"NZ","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Management Consulting","Angel Networks & Startup Accelerators"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T01:13:02Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:4","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-boundary-it-systems-administrator","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-boundary-it-systems-administrator.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-23T08:12:01Z","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":13082,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"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":697136},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=697136"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fthe-boundary-it-systems-administrator"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"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%2Fthe-boundary-it-systems-administrator"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"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%2Fthe-boundary-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/the-boundary-it-systems-administrator\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fthe-boundary-it-systems-administrator"}]}