Senior Systems Administrator - Multiple Teams
About the job
- At least 7 years of experience in systems administration, infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, or a comparable technical role.
- Strong hands-on experience administering Microsoft 365.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Hands-on experience administering production workloads in Amazon Web Services.
- Strong knowledge of Windows Server and Active Directory.
- Experience with identity and access management, multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access, and role-based access control.
- Experience with cloud and enterprise networking, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, routing, and firewalls.
- Strong PowerShell scripting and automation skills.
- Experience with backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, patching, and vulnerability remediation.
- Strong understanding of cloud and enterprise security best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex technical problems across multiple systems and cloud platforms.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Administer and support the Microsoft 365 environment, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, and related services.
- Manage users, groups, licenses, mailboxes, distribution lists, shared mailboxes, and service configurations.
- Manage Microsoft 365 security, compliance, retention, and data protection configurations.
- Troubleshoot complex Microsoft 365 service, authentication, mail flow, and collaboration issues.
- Monitor Microsoft 365 service health, security alerts, and administrative changes.
- Develop and maintain PowerShell automation for Microsoft 365 administration.
- Administer and support Azure infrastructure and services, including virtual machines, storage, networking, backup, monitoring, and security.
- Manage Microsoft Entra ID, including users, groups, enterprise applications, Conditional Access, multi-factor authentication, and role-based access control.
- Manage hybrid identity environments and integrations between on-premises systems, Microsoft 365, and Azure.
- Design and maintain Azure networking, including virtual networks, subnets, VPNs, routing, DNS, and network security groups.
- Implement monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
- Review Azure workloads for reliability, security, performance, and cost optimization.
- Administer and support AWS workloads and infrastructure.
- Manage AWS services such as EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Route 53, CloudWatch, AWS Backup, and related services.
- Configure and maintain AWS identity, permissions, roles, and security policies using least-privilege principles.
- Manage networking and connectivity between AWS, Azure, corporate networks, and other environments.
- Monitor AWS infrastructure for availability, performance, security, and cost.
- Support cloud migrations and deployment of new AWS workloads.
- Administer Windows Server environments, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and related infrastructure.
- Manage virtualization and cloud-hosted server environments.
- Manage endpoint configuration and security using Microsoft Intune.
- Maintain system patching, vulnerability remediation, backup, and recovery processes.
- Monitor infrastructure availability and proactively identify reliability or performance issues.
- Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex infrastructure incidents.
- Participate in incident response and disaster recovery activities.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and runbooks.
- Work with vendors and technology partners to resolve technical issues and implement new capabilities.
- Apply security best practices across Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, endpoints, and enterprise infrastructure.
- Implement and maintain multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access, role-based access control, least-privilege access, and privileged account controls.
- Review security alerts, audit logs, authentication activity, and infrastructure events.
- Partner with security teams to remediate vulnerabilities and improve the organization’s overall security posture.
- Support security audits, compliance activities, and evidence collection.
- Assist with investigation and response to security incidents.
- Automate repetitive administrative tasks using PowerShell, Azure CLI, AWS CLI, or other scripting and automation technologies.
- Identify opportunities to improve infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Develop standardized deployment and configuration processes.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using technologies such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Azure Bicep where appropriate.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards for critical infrastructure.
- Take ownership of complex infrastructure environments, independently resolve challenging technical issues, and balance operational responsibilities with longer-term infrastructure improvements.
- Experience managing hybrid or multi-cloud environments spanning Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, and on-premises infrastructure.
- Experience with Microsoft Intune and modern endpoint management.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
- Experience implementing cloud governance, security baselines, and cost optimization.
- Experience working in security-conscious or regulated environments.
- Familiarity with Linux administration.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification.
- Microsoft 365 Administrator certification.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator certification.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
- Security+, CISSP, or equivalent security certification.
About the company
Echodyne builds compact radar sensors for defense, security, and autonomous systems. It uses Metamaterials Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) to electronically steer beams with a solid-state design, reducing size, weight, and power compared with traditional radar. Its EchoGuard and EchoShield combine hardware with software for surveillance, counter-UAS, border security, and autonomous-vehicle sensing. The goal is to make high-performance radar accessible to a wide range of customers by expanding production and product lines for broader applications.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$199M
Headquarters
Kirkland, Washington
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- The July 2026 Washington plant targets more than 30,000 radars annually, unlocking backlog conversion.
- Trust Automation’s $490 million SUADS program runs through August 2030, anchoring recurring demand.
- Drone warfare in Ukraine and Europe keeps counter-UAS procurement urgent through 2027.
What critics are saying
- Defense buyers are consolidating around platform primes and integrated C2, squeezing standalone radar vendors.
- European local-content pressure is forcing Echodyne toward costly overseas production within 12 months.
- If drone budgets shift toward EW and interceptors, Echodyne becomes a replaceable sensor supplier.
What makes Echodyne unique
- Echodyne’s July 2026 MESA factory proves software-defined radar can scale commercially.
- Kongsberg selected Echodyne for PROTECTOR RS4 and RS6 in September 2026.
- Echodyne’s ATAK plugin, launched July 23, 2026, lowers operator integration friction.
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Benefits
Incentive stock options
Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage benefits for employee and family members
Unlimited vacation
12 paid sick days
9 paid holidays
Company paid disability, life insurance, employee assistance program and travel insurance
401k Plan
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
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↓ -5%US radar maker Echodyne mulls European production as drone warfare fuels demand. Sep 10, 2026, 04:14 AM KIELCE, Poland - U.S. radar maker Echodyne has announced that Norway's Kongsberg has selected its MESA radar platform for a broad range of air and surface applications. Echodyne opened a manufacturing facility in Washington state last July, and is considering establishing a manufacturing presence in Europe to benefit from the booming counter-drone market there. Eben Frankenberg, the company's CEO, told Defense News at the MSPO defense show here that Echodyne has longstanding cooperation with Kongsberg. The integration of its radars into the company's Protector RS4 and Protector RS6 remote weapon stations will further increase Echodyne's visibility in European markets, he said. Echodyne's solutions will make "those remote weapon stations, which weren't originally designed to counter drone threats, effective at countering drone threats," Frankenberg said. "And this is something we do with a lot of companies." With a surging demand for miniaturized radars that ensure detection and fire-control support for various counter-drone systems in Europe, Echodyne is also considering investing in establishing a manufacturing presence in Europe. "There's obviously a big European demand and there's rightfully some interest from European countries in having more local content," the CEO said. "We're thinking about where it would make the most sense." In July 2026, Echodyne said it opened an 86,350-square-foot facility under a $40 million investment. The U.S. plant will eventually be able to produce more than 30,000 radar systems per year, according to data from Echodyne. "Part of the plan with the new facility was that it gives us a template or blueprint to be able to open other new facilities in the future. Because now we know exactly all the machines we need to have, all the workstations, the number of people to equip them," Frankenberg said. "So it does set us up for that in the future." Jaroslaw Adamowski is the Poland correspondent for Defense News.
KONGSBERG selects Echodyne MESA radar for counter-uas weapon systems. Low-SWaP, precision-tracking radar integrated with PROTECTOR RS4 and RS6 remote weapon stations to strengthen detection-to-defeat performance against drones Echodyne, the radar platform company, today announced that KONGSBERG has selected Echodyne's MESA(R) radar platform for a range of air and surface applications. Among the first use cases, KONGSBERG has integrated MESA radar into the PROTECTOR RS4 and PROTECTOR RS6 remote weapon stations (RWS), adding the precision radar data needed to turn the world's most widely deployed RWS family into a highly effective counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) effector. The selection pairs KONGSBERG's proven weapon-station architecture and Collaborative Fire Control capabilities with Echodyne's compact, solid-state radar. The result is a scalable approach for adding high-fidelity detection, tracking and targeting data to static, crewed and uncrewed platforms without the size, weight and power demands traditionally associated with high-performance electronically scanned array radar. "KONGSBERG has set the standard for remote weapon systems through decades of field experience, disciplined engineering and close collaboration with operators," said Eben Frankenberg, CEO of Echodyne. "Integrating MESA radar gives the PROTECTOR family the precise, stable and persistent tracks needed to cue the fire-control system, sustain target lock and act decisively against fast-moving, low-signature drone threats. Just as important, MESA delivers that performance in a compact, software-defined package that can scale across a large installed base and adapt as the threat evolves." Precision radar data for the fire-control chain. Radar track quality is fundamental to effective fire control. Echodyne's low-SWaP MESA radar supplies high-fidelity range, range-rate, bearing and kinematic data while maintaining the track stability and persistence needed to compute and execute a firing solution. By stabilizing and cueing the optical fire-control system onto a target, the radar helps the weapon station hold lock longer, shorten the detection-to-engagement timeline and improve hit probability against agile, low-radar-cross-section threats. That precision is particularly important when PROTECTOR systems employ programmable airburst munitions. Accurate range and range-rate measurements support the timing needed to place the munition's effect at the correct point in the target's flight path. In networked operations, a cooperative search radar or another sensor can pass a threat track to the radar-equipped RWS; the local MESA radar then refines and sustains the track for fire-control use. This search-cue-track-engage workflow allows distributed systems to share the air picture, assign targets and rapidly retarget as threats are defeated. Validated through a multi-year field program. Echodyne and KONGSBERG have spent multiple years integrating, testing and demonstrating the radar-enabled solution in keeping with KONGSBERG's philosophy to prove capability in the field. Beyond the various PROTECTOR integrations, Echodyne and KONGSBERG are exploring additional uses for high-performance radar across air and surface missions within the KONGSBERG portfolio. The companies expect to continue joint technical work focused on resilient sensing, networked fire control and scalable protection against rapidly evolving threats. Echodyne and KONGSBERG will exhibit at the 34th International Defence Industry Exhibition (MSPO) in Kielce, Poland, September 8-11, 2026
Red Cat wins $2.49M U.S. Air Force order for Black Widow drone systems. July 30, 2026 BY Red Cat Holdings, Inc. Red Cat Holdings Inc. said its Teal Drones subsidiary received a $2.49 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force to supply Black Widow small unmanned aircraft systems, training and related support. The award includes Black Widow drones, train-the-trainer instruction, batteries, spare parts and shipping. The systems will be used by the U.S. Air Force Security Forces Center to conduct technical and operational assessments of Black Widow as a potential replacement for its current Teal 2 drone fleet. The Air Force Security Forces Center oversees training, equipping and program execution for active-duty, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve security forces. The evaluation could position Black Widow as a successor across the organization's existing Teal 2 fleet. Red Cat CEO Jeff Thompson said the assessment reflects increasing demand for U.S.-made drone systems for defense and security missions. Black Widow is Red Cat's flagship short-range reconnaissance drone and the platform selected by the U.S. Army for its Short Range Reconnaissance Program. The contract calls for delivery by Aug. 24, 2026. By Lockheed Martin July 20, 2026 Lockheed Martin introduced MORFIUS X-Rotor, a reusable high-power microwave counter-drone system that the company says can disable more than 50 drones in a single mission. The company plans additional testing and accelerated prototype production as it advances the system for military use. July 09, 2026 Echodyne has opened a new Washington manufacturing facility capable of producing more than 30,000 MESA(R) radar systems annually, expanding production capacity to meet growing global demand for counter-drone and defense applications while adding up to 200 jobs. July 06, 2026 Schaeffler and Delair will establish a new drone production line in France capable of manufacturing up to 100 drones per day by late 2026, strengthening Europe's unmanned aerial systems manufacturing capacity. June 17, 2026 DroneShield has produced its first EU-manufactured counter-drone systems, marking a key step in expanding its European manufacturing footprint. The move supports regional defense industrial goals, strengthens supply-chain resilience and enables European customers to access locally produced versions of the company's AI-powered CUAS technology June 11, 2026 Skyfront has secured a U.S. Army contract to field its Perimeter 8 long-endurance hybrid-electric drone alongside Army units, integrating the aircraft into existing command-and-control networks and armored combat vehicles. The company will also train soldiers and instructors and provide ongoing sustainment. The first phase was completed during a three-week Colorado deployment with partner AeroIntel Systems, where soldiers flew the aircraft on beyond-visual-line-of-sight surveillance missions at ranges up to 10 miles. October 13-14, 2026 ALERUS CENTER | GRAND FORKS,NORTH DAKOTA The UAS industry is in the midst of an economic and technological evolution. The 20th annual UAS Summit and Expo - set in Grand Forks, North Dakota, near the heart of some of the most prominent U.S. UAS activity currently happening - is set to showcase and explain the evolution of UAVs while revealing the current state of the commercial UAS industry. It's the original epicenter of drone research, earned its place as the Silicon Valley of Drones and as you'll see from the commercial, government and military flight activity filling the sky of the Northern Plains and beyond every day, it has truly become America's UAS proving grounds.View More
Echodyne launches ATAK plugin for MESA radar platform. Source // Echodyne July 23, 2026 BY Echodyne Echodyne has announced the availability of an Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) plugin for its MESA radar platform, enabling users to configure, control and visualize radar data directly within the ATAK environment. The integration allows military, public safety and security organizations to incorporate MESA radar data into existing TAK-based workflows, helping streamline deployment, reduce operator workload and improve real-time situational awareness. The plugin supports both individual radar deployments and distributed radar networks, providing high-resolution radar data through a familiar operational interface. The ATAK plugin is included with Echodyne's Software & Support package and is available immediately through the company's customer portal. July 23, 2026 Red Cat Holdings has integrated its Black Widow drone with C3A Solutions' OBERON-enabled tactical fires networks, allowing the aircraft to deliver ISR data directly into digital fires workflows while supporting greater interoperability and faster information sharing for military operations. July 20, 2026 Quantum Systems has been selected by Japan's Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency to participate in a proof-of-concept program evaluating next-generation counter-drone technologies for the Japan Self-Defense Forces, expanding the company's defense partnerships in the Indo-Pacific. July 20, 2026 Ondas secured a $6.9 million contract from the Australian Department of Defence to supply portable counter-drone DTIM kits through its Ondas Sentinel division, expanding the company's international defense business July 15, 2026 MatrixSpace AI Systems Vice President and General Manager Matt Kling has joined the Security Industry Association's Drone Security Subcommittee, where he will contribute the company's expertise in AI-powered counter-UAS technologies to support industry collaboration, policy development and secure airspace initiatives. July 13, 2026 Innoviz Technologies and AeroNous Solutions partnered to integrate LiDAR technology into AeroNous' counter-drone command-and-control platform, adding centimeter-level 3D localization to improve tracking and response to aerial threats. October 13-14, 2026 ALERUS CENTER | GRAND FORKS,NORTH DAKOTA The UAS industry is in the midst of an economic and technological evolution. The 20th annual UAS Summit and Expo - set in Grand Forks, North Dakota, near the heart of some of the most prominent U.S. UAS activity currently happening - is set to showcase and explain the evolution of UAVs while revealing the current state of the commercial UAS industry. It's the original epicenter of drone research, earned its place as the Silicon Valley of Drones and as you'll see from the commercial, government and military flight activity filling the sky of the Northern Plains and beyond every day, it has truly become America's UAS proving grounds.View More
Echodyne's $40M radar manufacturing plant comes online. The Kirkland facility will expand production of its MESA radar systems to more than 30,000 annually. Sen. Maria Cantwell and U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene took a tour of the new production lines at the Kirkland facility. Radar platform company Echodyne has officially opened a new $40 million manufacturing facility near its headquarters in Kirkland.