System Administrator

With a career at Homesteaders, you’ll do important work alongside people who want to make a difference as much as you do. We support each other’s success, value bold and respectful collaboration and promote a healthy work-life balance through our workplace, schedule and benefits. Homesteaders’ purpose is to help people design a better farewell, benefitting those they love. That means your role here will have a positive, meaningful impact on families who experience the many advantages of funeral and end-of-life planning.

Homesteaders is seeking a System Administrator to join their team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for learning and a broad range of technical skills to support the business needs. As a Generalist System Administrator, you will be responsible for managing IIS web servers, being the point of contact for developer teams for existing and new webapps, collaborating with team members both in operations and across the organization to enable business processes, assisting with AD and EntraID, and assisting with O365 / Azure. You will also participate in weekly on-call rotations (1 out of 7 weeks) and server updates (1 month out of 7), and work on trouble tickets as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications and critical success factors:

· Bachelor’s degree with two plus years experience in information services preferred or equivalent professional experience.

· Demonstrated proficiency in assessing problems, developing solution options, and implementing those solutions.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to listen effectively to customer concerns, ask appropriate questions, and provide prompt follow through.

· Demonstrated willingness and ability to learn new things as technology changes.

Pay and Benefits Summary:

Homesteaders offers competitive compensation and benefits, health and wellness programs, professional development opportunities and much more.

Our benefits include:

· An excellent schedule – office closes at 1 p.m. every Friday

· Annual profit sharing

· 401(k) with company match with discretionary contribution

· Company-sponsored group medical and dental insurance

· Company-paid life insurance

· Company-paid long-term disability

· Hybrid work environment

· Paid holidays

· Generous vacation time and sick leave

· Paid parental leave

· Casual dress year-round

· Free breakfast and lunch at on-site cafeteria

· Professional membership and licensing dues reimbursement

· Tuition reimbursement

· Volunteer Time Off (VTO)

· Matching gift program

We are dedicated to considering a broad array of candidates, including those with diverse workplace experiences and backgrounds. Whether you’re new to the workforce, returning to work after a gap in employment or taking the next step in your career path, we will be delighted to have you as part of our candidate pool. Apply today!

About Homesteaders:

Homesteaders Life Company, a mutual company owned by its policy holders, is a national leader providing products and services to help people design a better farewell. Founded in 1906, Homesteaders is known for secure preneed funding and innovative solutions that help funeral and end-of-life professionals and consumers connect with each other.

We are currently not hiring in Colorado, Montana, New York and California.