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System Administration Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 35+ system administration jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 14 new this week. Hiring companies include Esri, AV, and Nutanix.

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4-day weeks (80% pay) 3
9-day fortnights 4
generous PTO 3
unlimited PTO 2
best places to work 19

Updated August 26, 2026

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Software Packaging Engineer

PDQ · Remote · București, Romania

77 · Great4 Day Work Week

Senior Systems Analyst, Enterprise Apps (Finance)

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Coinbase · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$149k – $175kPro · early access

Senior Support Engineer

Elastic · Remote · Bangalore, India

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

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SRE Specialist

1mo

Experian · Remote · São Paulo, Brazil

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Cloud Engineer

NEW

11h

Graphcore · Hybrid · Bristol, UK

57 · GoodUnlimited PTOPro · early access

TechOps Engineer

NEW

Ocrolus · Hybrid · Gurugram, Haryana, India

60 · GoodUnlimited PTOPro · early access

Specialist – Tooling and Infrastructure Reliability

2mo

Ubisoft Montreal · Onsite · Montreal, QC, Canada

85 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

Solution Security Architect

3mo

Ubisoft Montreal · Onsite · Montreal, QC, Canada

85 · Excellent4 Day Work Week (80%)

System Engineer – ArcGIS

NEW

Esri · Onsite · Vienna, VA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$121k – $198kPro · early access

System Engineer – ArcGIS

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Esri · Onsite · Vienna, VA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$121k – $198kPro · early access

Senior System Engineer – ArcGIS

NEW

Esri · Onsite · Vienna, VA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$156k – $239kPro · early access

Resident Consultant

NEW

Nutanix · Hybrid · Singapore, Singapore

57 · GoodBest Place to WorkPro · early access

IT Specialist

AV · Onsite · Albuquerque, NM, USA

61 · Good9 Day Fortnight$75k – $114k

Operational Support Technician

Scottish Government · Hybrid · Galashiels, UK

71 · GreatCompressed Work Week

Automation Specialist

Sanofi · Hybrid · Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

IT Automation & Support Specialist

Ridgeline · Hybrid · New York, NY +2 more

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$104k – $131k

Business Systems Specialist

Bundaberg Regional Council · Onsite · Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia

64 · Good9 Day Fortnight$105k

Field Support Engineer

1mo

Thales · Onsite · Singapore, Singapore

74 · Great4 Day Work Week (80%)

Senior Platforms Engineer - Microsoft Dynamics 365

Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · Houston, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Senior ERP System Consultant

18d

St. James's Place · Onsite · Cirencester, England, UK

66 · GoodGenerous PTO

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Employers hiring for System Administration on this page include Esri, AV, and Nutanix. System Administration roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether System Administration is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

System Administration roles span the full seniority range — we list 35 open roles requiring System Administration across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — System Administration hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. System Administration roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but System Administration candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with System Administration on current listings.

System Administration Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 35+ system administration jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 14 new this week. Hiring companies include Esri, AV, and Nutanix.

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