South helps growing companies find, hire, and pay top Latin American talent. Build high-performing teams in 21 days or less.
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A System Administrator keeps servers, networks, and core infrastructure running. They handle user provisioning, patching, backups, monitoring, and incident response across Linux, Windows, or hybrid environments.
The role commands premium pay in the U.S. but talented professionals in Latin America deliver the same work for a fraction of the cost. The role earns an average U.S. salary of $7,400 per month compared with an average Latin American salary of $3,000 per month, creating potential savings of up to 59%. LatAm has a deep talent pool, with experienced professionals across Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, many with several years of experience supporting U.S. teams.
Yes. South contracts the System Administrator locally, handles compliance and payroll, and bills you monthly. The hire joins your tools (Slack, Jira, GitHub, CRM) on day one. Time-zone alignment with the U.S. is the biggest unlock: real-time collaboration, same-day decisions, and none of the overnight handoffs you get when hiring in EMEA or APAC.
Strong Linux and/or Windows fundamentals, scripting in Bash or PowerShell, hands-on with at least one configuration-management tool (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SCCM), and a working knowledge of networking. Senior candidates should have led an outage, designed a backup-and-restore plan, and automated repetitive tasks rather than just doing them.
Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS), Windows Server, Active Directory, Bash, PowerShell, Ansible, Puppet, Nagios or Zabbix or Prometheus for monitoring, Veeam for backups, plus VMware or Hyper-V.
A System Administrator manages traditional server and network infrastructure. A DevOps Engineer focuses on the developer pipeline, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native tooling. Modern teams blend the roles. Hire a Sysadmin when you have on-prem or hybrid infrastructure that needs hands-on management. Hire a DevOps Engineer when your stack is mostly cloud and the bottleneck is the deploy pipeline.
South sources, vets, and matches LatAm professionals with U.S. teams hiring for the System Administrator role. You see a shortlist within seven to ten days, run your own interviews, and onboard in two to three weeks. South handles the contract, monthly payments, and offers a replacement guarantee. Schedule a free call here to get started!
The region has the perfect mix of everything you want in remote employees: English skills, shared time zones, hard-working, and depth of talent. They are already accustomed to working remotely for top US startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Absolutely! The US and Latin America have basically the same time zones. No Latin American city is more than two hours ahead of EST.
Every hire is sourced based on your exact needs. They will arrive ready to support your business right away. They can do basically any tasks done remotely, but we recommend starting them as support so your team has more bandwidth for high-value strategic tasks.
All types of roles - customer service, executive assistant, sales, accounting, email marketing, lead generation, content writers, operations, social media marketing, and more!
You can pay directly through us (most popular) or we can connect you with one of our payroll partners.
You don't have to deal with any American labor laws / taxes when hiring full-time remote contractors. They aren't US-based, so no visas or sponsorships to deal with either.
We recommend market pay which varies for each role. See our salary guide and success stories for some ideas.
Then, we have two different models:
Staffing (most popular) - We charge a small monthly fee for each employee's monthly salary to make the process hassle-free. The fee covers sourcing, recruiting, admin, payroll, compliance, ongoing support, and a free replacement if necessary at any point. There are no cancellation fees or minimum commitments. You only pay if you make a hire.
Headhunting - A one-time simple fee once we've found the perfect candidate. This comes with a 120-day replacement guarantee.
For both options, you only pay something if we find you someone great that you want to hire.
Yes, we only recruit for full-time and we strongly recommend full-time hiring if you can. Stability (full-time & long-term) is highly sought after abroad. The top caliber candidates are only looking for full-time work.
You're also going to spend time training and getting them up to speed on your processes. It would be a waste to do that over and over again with new people all the time.
We recommend training new hires on one thing at a time.
For example, once they get up to speed on lead generation, you can add the next role writing blog posts or whatever you'd like. You can definitely overlap roles until you have enough work for multiple people.
The cost of living is much less in Latin American countries. Many of our employees are able to own homes, raise families, provide for their parents, and have in-home help of their own with their salaries.
If you aren't happy with your hire in the first 120 days, we will work with you to conduct a second round of search for the same role for free.
Just email us at Hello@HireInSouth.com and we will get back to you with an answer as soon as possible.
