• Why Pay Extra for CIS18 & NIST Compliance Readiness? Next Level IT includes CIS18/NIST risk/gap assessments and readiness services in every package at no additional cost.

Server Administration and Management

Reliable Servers. Built for Performance. Secured by Design.

Next Level IT delivers dedicated Server Administration & Management services for organizations that rely on stable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure. We design, manage, and maintain your physical and virtual servers so your applications stay online, responsive, and protected. Our approach unifies server operations, cybersecurity, and compliance into a single, predictable service—whether your workloads live on-premises, in the data center, or in the cloud.

What Is Server Administration & Management?

Server Administration & Management gives your organization a dedicated team to build, monitor, secure, and optimize the servers that run your business-critical systems. Instead of a reactive “fix it when it breaks” model, your environment is continuously patched, monitored, and tuned for performance, availability, and security.

What’s Included With Server Administration & Management

Server Provisioning & Configuration

We design and build new servers—physical, virtual, or cloud—using hardened, standardized configurations aligned to best practices.

Patch Management & OS Maintenance

Ongoing operating system and firmware updates to reduce vulnerabilities, improve stability, and keep your servers fully supported.

Performance Monitoring & Capacity Planning

Real-time monitoring of CPU, memory, storage, and I/O with proactive tuning and capacity planning before performance issues impact users.

High Availability & Uptime Management

Design and management of clustering, failover, and redundancy to minimize downtime and keep critical applications accessible.

Backup, Restore & Disaster Recovery

Image-level and application-aware backups, recovery testing, and DR runbooks so you can quickly restore servers after failures, ransomware, or data loss.

Directory, Identity & Access Management

Administration of Active Directory, identity providers, roles, and permissions to ensure the right people have the right access—nothing more.

Server Lifecycle & Platform Upgrades

Hardware refresh planning, migration to newer platforms, and decommissioning of legacy servers to reduce risk and unplanned outages.

Co-Managed Server Administration

For organizations with in-house IT or system administrators, our co-managed server services extend your team with advanced tooling, senior engineering, and 24/7 monitoring. You stay in control of strategy and key systems—we handle the heavy lifting, escalation support, and after-hours coverage.

Security-First Server Management

Security is embedded into every server we deploy and manage. Our environments commonly include:
  • Server hardening, least-privilege access, and secure baseline configurations
  • Endpoint protection, EDR, and threat detection for server workloads
  • Centralized logging and monitoring for suspicious activity and anomalies
  • Regular vulnerability scanning and remediation of high-risk findings
  • Backup encryption, immutable storage, and tested recovery procedures
  • Compliance alignment with CIS Controls, NIST, SOC 2, CMMC & Utah HB 80 where applicable
The result is a server environment that is not only fast and reliable, but defensible—from security reviews and audits to cyber insurance and real-world threats.

Our Process

We follow a proven server onboarding and management process designed to quickly stabilize your infrastructure, secure critical workloads, and continuously optimize performance, uptime, and reliability.

  • Assess server health, performance, risks, capacity, and configuration gaps.
  • Secure & Deploy server hardening, patching, access controls, and monitoring.
  • Standardize server configurations, backup policies, permissions, and management tools.
  • Optimize server performance, resource utilization, and workload efficiency.
  • Scale server infrastructure to support growth, availability, and future demand.
Services Categories
Security-First Server Administration & Infrastructure Management
Server Administration & Maintenance
Server Administration & Maintenance

Proactive server monitoring, patching, performance tuning, and lifecycle management to keep your critical infrastructure secure, stable, and running at peak efficiency.

Security-Driven Server Protection & Compliance
Server Security & Compliance
Server Security & Compliance

Continuous server hardening, threat detection, access control, and compliance monitoring to protect your infrastructure from attacks, audits, and operational failure.

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A Great Service → A Proven IT Partner

Managed IT Services Built for Security & Scale

Server Operations
Server Operations
Server Security
Server Security
Server Operations

Server Administration & Maintenance from Next Level IT delivers proactive monitoring, patching, optimization, and performance management for your entire server environment. From physical and virtual servers to cloud and hybrid infrastructure, we ensure uptime, reliability, and peak performance.

Our approach eliminates unexpected outages, reduces technical debt, and ensures your servers remain stable, secure, and ready to scale with your business.

Server Security

Next Level IT embeds cybersecurity and compliance directly into your server infrastructure. We secure access, monitor for threats, harden configurations, and align your environment with modern security frameworks including CIS Controls, NIST, SOC 2, and CMMC.

The result is a server environment that is not only operational—but defensible against ransomware, audits, cyber insurance requirements, and real-world attacks.

Security-First IT for Modern Businesses
Security-First IT for Modern Businesses

Reliable IT. Built-In Cybersecurity. Compliance-Ready.
We help growing organizations eliminate downtime, reduce cyber risk, and scale with confidence.

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The Next Level IT Approach

Managed IT & Cybersecurity Implementation Roadmap

Assess
Assess
We evaluate your current IT environment, security posture, users, devices, cloud systems, and business risks. This gives us a clear baseline to prioritize remediation, security controls, and performance improvements.
Secure
Secure
We immediately deploy baseline cybersecurity protections including endpoint security, email defense, access controls, backups, and monitoring to reduce exposure and stabilize your environment.
Standardize
Standardize
We align devices, configurations, backups, identity, and policies to proven best practices. This eliminates inconsistencies, reduces recurring issues, and improves reliability.
Optimize
Optimize
Once stable, we fine-tune performance, automation, workflows, and resource usage to improve efficiency, uptime, and the end-user experience.
Scale
Scale
As your business grows, we evolve your IT strategy with proactive planning, cybersecurity oversight, and long-term technology roadmaps.
Our Tools

Our Design Technology Stack

Crowdstrike
ELK STACK
Proofpoint
Okta
Liongard
NinjaOne
Microsoft Intune
Acronis
Microsoft M365
Azure
ControlMap
ScalePad
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