Unusual Machines is a U.S.-based drone and drone parts company focused on the small and First-Person View (FPV) segments of the drone market. Our brands - Rotor Riot, Fat Shark, Rotor Lab and - coming soon - Upgrade Energy - are some of the most respected names in FPV and have helped shape the industry through e-commerce, product development, and a deep connection with the pilot community.
We’re expanding into enterprise and defense - bringing our obsessive attention to performance, design, and U.S.-based manufacturing into high-stakes environments like search and rescue and military innovation. With several of our products already approved by the Defense Innovation Unit, we’re solving procurement issues for customers who demand speed, agility, and compliance.
If you love working at the intersection of community, content, and cutting-edge technology, you’ll feel right at home here.
You in This Role
The Network / Systems Administrator is an individual-contributor role within a lean IT department of three. You will own the day-to-day administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of Unusual Machines' enterprise network and systems infrastructure across all seven sites. Working directly with the Director of IT, you will be a primary subject matter expert for firewall, switching, wireless, identity, cloud, and server infrastructure, while supporting compliance obligations and contributing to ongoing strategic IT buildout initiatives.
This role is ideal for a technically deep, self-directed administrator who thrives in a fast-moving environment, takes genuine ownership of infrastructure, and understands the discipline required in regulated industries.
What You'll Do
- Administer and maintain the enterprise firewall environment, including centralized policy management, NAT, zone architecture, and application-aware filtering rules
- Manage secure remote access and zero-trust network access (ZTNA) policy enforcement for a distributed workforce
- Operate and maintain enterprise switching infrastructure across all sites, including VLANs, trunking, spanning tree, QoS, port security, and configuration management
- Administer enterprise wireless access points and branch failover connectivity across all locations via centralized cloud management
- Maintain enterprise WAN connectivity across all seven sites; coordinate with carriers on circuit issues and escalations
- Manage dedicated storage networking with performance-optimized configuration for enterprise storage workloads
- Support DNS operations for the company's domain infrastructure
Systems & Cloud Infrastructure
- Administer the Microsoft 365 tenant, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, and OneDrive
- Manage enterprise identity infrastructure: Conditional Access policy authoring and tuning, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Identity Protection risk policies, and automated provisioning integrations
- Operate endpoint management tooling for policy management, compliance baselines, zero-touch device provisioning, and application deployment
- Administer Windows Server infrastructure including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and file services
- Manage NAS/storage infrastructure
- Operate and maintain backup and disaster recovery processes; ensure recovery objectives are met and tested
ITSM & Operations
- Operate within the enterprise ITSM platform: own infrastructure-tier tickets, contribute to CMDB asset accuracy, document changes per change management process
- Maintain network and systems documentation to a professional standard, including configuration baselines, topology diagrams, runbooks, and change records
- Participate in on-call rotation and respond to after-hours infrastructure incidents as needed across a multi-site footprint
- Provide assistance and escalation support to Desktop Helpdesk staff for network, identity, and server-related issues
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in a network/systems administration role in an enterprise environment
- Enterprise firewall administration, including security policy, NAT, zone design, application-aware filtering, and centralized management platforms
- Enterprise switching experience, including VLAN configuration, trunking, spanning tree, and QoS, in a production environment
- Microsoft 365 back-end administration: Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, licensing, and service health management
- Entra ID / Azure AD experience: Conditional Access, PIM, Identity Protection, automated provisioning, and group-based access management
- Windows Server administration: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, GPO, and file services
- Familiarity with backup/DR concepts and tools; ability to design and verify recovery procedures
- PowerShell scripting for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and Windows Server automation tasks
- Experience working in a compliance-driven environment (SOX, ITAR, HIPAA, PCI, or equivalent)
- Strong documentation discipline, you write things down and keep them current
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant firewall vendor certification (e.g., PCNSA/PCNSE or equivalent)
- Cisco CCNA or CCNP certification
- Microsoft certifications: MS-102 (M365 Administrator), SC-300 (Identity & Access), AZ-104 (Azure Administrator)
- Cloud-managed wireless and SD-WAN administration experience
- Modern endpoint management / zero-touch provisioning experience
- Vulnerability management platform experience
- Zero-trust / secure remote access administration experience
- Experience with storage networking and NAS platforms
- Experience supporting multi-site WAN environments
- Familiarity with enterprise ITSM platforms
Compensation
$90,000 – $105,000
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
- 401(k)
- Generous PTO
- Paid Holidays
- Daily Catered Lunches
We are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Unusual Machines participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is an Internet-based system that compares information from an employee's Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, to data from U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration records to confirm employment eligibility.
Candidates must be a US Citizen or permanent resident to be eligible for employment
