Sr. System Administrator (Data Centers)

About Dialpad Dialpad is the AI-native business communications platform. We unify calling, messaging, meetings, and contact center on a single platform - powered by AI that understands every conversation in real time. More than 70,000 companies around the globe, including WeWork, Asana, NASDAQ, AAA Insurance, COMPASS Realty, Uber, Randstad, and Tractor Supply, rely on Dialpad to build stronger customer connections using real-time, AI-driven insights. We’re now leading the shift to Agentic AI: intelligent agents that don’t just analyze conversations but take action by automating workflows, resolving customer issues, and accelerating revenue in real time. Our DAART initiative (Dialpad Agentic AI in Real Time) is redefining what a communications platform can do. Visit dialpad.com to learn more. Being a Dialer At Dialpad, AI isn’t just a feature; it’s how our teams do their best work every day. We put powerful AI tools in every employee’s hands so they can move faster, think bigger, and achieve more. We believe every conversation matters. And we’ve built the platform that turns those conversations into insight and action, for our customers and ourselves. We look for people who are intensely curious and hold themselves to a high bar. Our ambition is significant, and achieving it requires a team that operates at the highest level. We seek individuals who embody our core traits: Scrappy, Curious, Optimistic, Persistent, and Empathetic . Your role As a Sr. System Administrator on the Data Centers team, you’ll own both our hardware and cloud infrastructures, with a particular focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. You’ll manage the administration and lifecycle of our global server fleet and lead key initiatives in automation, observability, and performance. You’ll also take the lead on capacity planning, including physical data center needs, and will be a technical partner to stakeholders across Engineering as we evolve our infrastructure footprint. In addition, you’ll evaluate, propose, and implement new project initiatives such as intrusion detection/prevention, system/security hardening, and automating manual processes. This position reports to our Engineering Manager, Data Centers and Networking, and is based in Vancouver, Canada (with flexibility to collaborate across global time zones). What you’ll do Scout, evaluate, and compare hardware options and colocation facilities, partnering with Engineering to align decisions with performance and cost objectives. Design and deploy a cloud expansion strategy that balances reliability, performance, and efficiency across providers and regions. Steer capacity planning and our expansion/upgrade strategy, using data to anticipate growth and proactively mitigate bottlenecks. Design and deploy servers at scale into data centers around the globe, ensuring consistent standards and automation from day one. Develop and maintain automation for a large fleet of servers, VMs, and containers, reducing toil and improving consistency across environments. Work with vendors to obtain quotes, make purchases, and schedule services, including coordinating logistics for data center installations and maintenance. Set up and evolve monitoring for server, network, and data center health, including alerting, dashboards, and SLO-oriented metrics. Develop and maintain proper documentation for engineering staff, including runbooks, standards, and architectural diagrams. Participate in a rotating on-call schedule within the larger Infrastructure Engineering division, helping drive rapid incident response and robust post-incident reviews. Lead complex systems and network troubleshooting, fault analysis, and resolution, acting as an escalation point for the broader team. Provide technical mentorship to other System Administrators and engineers, sharing best practices around Linux, automation, and operational excellence. Partner with Security and other stakeholders on initiatives such as system ha