Hire System Administrators in Latin America

Fill out the form, then use the intake call to describe the systems the hire will run, such as Linux or Windows servers, Active Directory, AWS or Azure accounts and your backup and monitoring tools, along with the seniority and budget. NBS screens each candidate in four stages, including a B2-or-higher CEFR English assessment and a role-specific technical work sample. You interview your first candidates within 3 business days of the intake call and choose your hire.

Senior system administrator hires cost 40 to 60 percent below US rates, and mid-level hires cost 50 to 70 percent below US rates. A direct hire placement carries a one-time fee, and nearshore staff augmentation runs on a fixed monthly fee that covers employment, payroll, benefits, compliance and monthly invoicing. NBS quotes its fee on the intake call.

Choose nearshore for a system administrator who has to work with your US team during your day. All 12 NBS countries sit within 2 hours of US Eastern time, while India runs about 9.5 to 10.5 hours ahead, the Philippines about 12 to 13 hours ahead and Eastern Europe about 7 hours ahead. A nearshore sysadmin restores a deleted file share from last night's backup the same afternoon your user reports it.

A nearshore system administrator lives in one of 12 Latin American countries within 2 hours of US Eastern time and works on your US team during your business hours. They reset a locked Active Directory account while your office is open and join the call when a server goes down. A late maintenance window falls in their evening too, so agree that schedule at the intake call.

You can hire from 12 LatAm countries: Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in North and Central America, and Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in South America. NBS has local recruiters in each, and each country has a hiring guide on this site.

Yes, NBS offers nearshore staff augmentation for a fixed monthly fee and Employer of Record coverage in all 12 markets. It also offers direct hire placements with a one-time fee and Recruitment as a Service for high-volume hiring teams.

A typical mid-level system administrator in Latin America earns $2,000 to $2,725 a month. Junior system administrators typically earn $1,280 to $1,920 a month, and senior system administrators earn $3,280 to $4,510 a month. NBS quotes its fee on the intake call.

A system administrator keeps your servers, user accounts and cloud resources running and secure. On a US team, a Latin American sysadmin typically patches and hardens Linux and Windows servers, manages Active Directory and Group Policy, maintains AWS or Azure IAM access and virtual machines, runs backups and restore tests, answers monitoring alerts and automates repeat work with Bash or PowerShell. Name the duties the hire will own during the intake call so NBS can match candidates to your stack.

Interview your first candidates within 3 business days of the intake call.

Yes, system administrators work US hours. All 12 countries sit within 2 hours of US Eastern time all year.

Mexico City and Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua) run 2 hours behind US Eastern during US daylight time and 1 hour behind the rest of the year. Colombia, Peru and Ecuador run 1 hour behind during US daylight time and level with US Eastern the rest of the year.

Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil (Brasília time) run 1 hour ahead during US daylight time and 2 hours ahead the rest of the year. Mainland Chile also changes its clocks: it runs level with US Eastern from early April to early September, 1 hour ahead in the weeks around that, and 2 hours ahead from early November to mid-March.

NBS helps you handle local labor law compliance and payroll. As Employer of Record for nearshore staff augmentation, NBS covers employment, payroll, benefits, compliance and monthly invoicing. Employer of Record coverage spans all 12 markets.

NBS replaces your hire free within 90 days if the hire does not work out, and the replacement rate is under 2 percent. A dedicated account manager manages the relationship, and NBS checks in at 30, 60, and 90 days.