IT System Administrator

Company Overview

S&S Activewear is the leading wholesaler to the imprintable apparel and uniform market in the United States and Canada. Since 1988, we’ve provided high-quality, imprintable apparel to our broad wholesale customer base. We offer high-quality apparel that allows your customers to express their creativity through wearable art through concert merchandise, school & team apparel, marathons and fun runs company stores, theme park gift shops and everyone in between!

Today, we offer the most extensive and accessible collection of fashion-forward styles around. And we get you the goods fast. We operate eight nationwide distribution centers—that’s 4 million square feet of efficient warehouse space—and uniquely offer the largest one & two-day distribution footprint in the industry, with its products reaching 99% of the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico within two days and 44 states in just one day.

We offer more than 100 brands, including Adidas, Champion, Columbia, Dickies, Fruit of the Loom, Gildan, Oakley, Richardson, Tommy Hilfiger, etc.

We have grown from a successful midwestern t-shirt and fleece distributor into an industry leader with approximately $2.5 billion in annual sales. In March 2021, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (“CD&R”) acquired S&S Activewear. CD&R believed S&S to be a leading distribution platform with sustainable competitive advantage following significant strategic investments in its geographic reach, people, and technology.

About Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is all about investing with a purpose. They're a private investment firm that really focuses on turning companies into stronger, more profitable versions of themselves. From the beginning they have overseen the investment of over $35 billion across 100 different companies, and those deals add up to a total value of more than $150 billion. The CD&R firm has offices in both New York and London.

Description

S&S Activewear is seeking a motivated IT Systems Administrator with cloud administration experience to join our team. As an IT Systems Administrator, you will play a pivotal role in managing and optimizing our Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure as well as our on-prem environment. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a passion for AWS services, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to our cloud journey!

Schedule

Monday-Friday, Full-Time, Exempt (Hybrid)

Location - Bolingbrook - IL

Benefits

Vacation, Personal, and Sick time.

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short/Long term disability.

Flexible Spending Account.

401K with 3% company contribution.

Discounts on brand name apparel.

Employee events.

Opportunities for advancement – Internal Promotions. Duties & Responsibilities

AWS Infrastructure Management

Use trusted advisor to investigate recommendations, proposing and implementing best practices.

Utilize Config to track and investigate configuration issues, proposing and implementing remediations.

Utilize AWS Systems Manager to track patching statuses and remediate failures.

Utilize CloudWatch to monitor resources and remediate issues as they arise.

Participate in the design and deployment of new infrastructure.

Manage tickets from the Amazon Managed Services team. Server Administration

Participate in the management of a hybrid Active Directory domain.

Install and manage Windows Server roles such as Active Directory Domain Services and IIS.

Manage backup of on-premises servers and Microsoft 365. Microsoft 365 Administration

Participate in administering Microsoft 365 services such as Entra, Intune and Teams.

Help facilitate the onboarding implementation of cloud technologies.

Use scripting and Power Automate to automate repeatable tasks. Provide tier 3 support for service desk personnel.

Requirements

2-3 years of experience in managing Amazon Web Services (AWS).

An excellent understanding of VPC concepts such as subnetting, security groups, and routing.

Experience with deploying EC2 instances through CloudFormation.

An excellent understanding of load balancing and high availability.

An excellent understanding of IAM, roles and policies.

Experience with PowerShell and Windows server.

Fundamental understanding of Linux.

Experience with writing CloudFormation templates using YAML.

Experience with SAML integrations.

Experience with Microsoft 365.

AWS Certifications are a plus.

Working Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.

S&S conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. S&S's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons. S&S participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm you are authorized to work in the U.S.