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About the role
Reporting to the Director of IT Infrastructure, the Senior IT Systems Administrator plays a critical role in owning, scaling, and securing Harness’ corporate IT environment. This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role focused on identity, SaaS platforms, device management, automation, and security in a fast-growing, global company.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in a similar role in a growing or enterprise environment
- Experience supporting 1,000+ end users across multiple locations
- Proven ability to operate independently and own systems without heavy oversight
- Demonstrated success leading IT projects (email migrations, SaaS rollouts, VoIP, security initiatives)
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Clear documentation and structured problem-solving approach
More about this role
Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.
Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.
Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like...
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