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Systems Administration Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 18+ systems administration jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and unlimited PTO—for a better work-life balance. 3 new this week. Hiring companies include MongoDB, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Tanium.

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9-day fortnights 3
flexible hours 1
unlimited PTO 6
best places to work 6
generous parental leave 3

Updated August 23, 2026

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Enterprise Services Engineer

16d

Tanium · Remote · Germany

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Systems Administrator

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AV · Onsite · Albuquerque, NM, USA

61 · Good9 Day Fortnight$91k – $139k

Systems Administrator

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AV · Onsite · Simi Valley, CA, USA

61 · Good9 Day Fortnight$101k – $153k

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Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · San Antonio, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Sentris Engineer- Classified Services

11d

The Aerospace Corporation · Hybrid · Chantilly, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Associate TSE II

12d

MongoDB · Hybrid · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Senior IT Manager

1mo

EliseAI · Onsite · New York City, NY, USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Associate TSE II

19d

MongoDB · Hybrid · Mexico City, Mexico

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Associate TSE II

23d

MongoDB · Hybrid · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

2mo

Definitive Healthcare · Hybrid · Framingham, MA, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

IT Systems Administrator

2mo

Tekmetric · Onsite · Houston, TX, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Compute Infrastructure Engineer

1mo

Panthalassa · Onsite · Portland, OR, USA

54 · DecentUnlimited PTO$150k – $200k

Associate TSE II

25d

MongoDB · Hybrid · Gurugram, Haryana, India

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Associate Technical Services Engineer II

1mo

MongoDB · Hybrid · Austin, TX, USA

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$76k – $149k

Associate Technical Services Engineer II

1mo

MongoDB · Hybrid · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Associate TSE II

1mo

MongoDB · Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Associate Technical Services Engineer II

2mo

MongoDB · Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Systems Administration on this page include MongoDB, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Tanium. Systems 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 Systems Administration is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Systems Administration roles span the full seniority range — we list 21 open roles requiring Systems 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 — Systems 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. Systems 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 Systems 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 Systems Administration on current listings.

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