Position Summary:

The Systems Administrator II is responsible for the secure and highly available operations environment supporting the students, staff, and faculty. The position will also direct the effort to install, maintain, administer, upgrade, and continuously improve the institution's operating environment to ensure ongoing reliability, performance, and security. This includes monitoring, responding to tickets, problems, planning, and data center maintenance. The Systems Administrator II will also help plan, design, and support IT infrastructure projects for the IT office as well as other business units.

Essential Position Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains, monitors, and supports the infrastructure environment and facilities.
• Coordinates and works on multiple cross-functional projects with potential of multiple concurrent users ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility.
• Manages institution VMware cluster by performing routine maintenance, maintaining data retention practices, and supporting DR solutions.
• Manages and maintains campus Active Directory environment, email, file and print, user creations and rights, GPO's, etc.
• Shares responsibility for core network infrastructure such as DNS, DHCP, and firewalls both hardware and virtual.
• Maintains all campus servers and networking hardware under control with appropriate OS and software patches and updates.
• Ensures documentation for systems is up to date, and all system changes are made using departmental change control procedures.
• Reports, recommends, and ensures infrastructure systems are secure. Will be required to analyze audit trails to detect violations, adherence, compliance, and security investigations.
• Assists in troubleshooting and maintaining network, server, and end user equipment.
• Monitors systems operating capacity in terms of disk space storage, and CPU utilization. May validate voice network configurations.
• Provides support for infrastructure connectivity or related network/communication issues. Administers SANs related to hardware, software, capacity management, backups, archival, DR, provisioning, installation, troubleshooting, design, and monitoring.
• Other duties as assigned by the Director of Infrastructure and Security.