Enterprise Systems Administrator Engineer

• Goal-Oriented Innovator: Do you thrive on understanding desired outcomes and designing strategies to achieve them?
• Adaptable Problem Solver: Can you embrace a certain level of ambiguity while you and your team determine the best approaches and technologies to add value?
• Collaborative Team Player: Do you enjoy working closely with team members and our technology customers to achieve shared goals?
• Technical Expert: Are you skilled in engineering, architecting, and supporting Windows/Linux systems?
• Proactive Guardian: Can you help define and implement log aggregation technologies to keep us informed about system issues and threats?

Responsibilities

• Design, analyze, document, create, test, automate, secure and manage efficient and robust enterprise production, development and staging systems from architecture through service, including prototypes to advance institutional needs
• Work with a variety of vendors, partners, teams, and customers to define enterprise hardware, software, cloud, and other system functional specifications
• As needed, perform cost-benefit analyses and explore options and alternatives on proposed systems, upgrades and improvements
• Identify and implement designs that reduce complexity
• Create and update online support documentation using online tools and procedures
• Analyze tools and methods and identify areas for improvement
• Perform regular audits of security, performance, and compliance on systems and software
• Document and respond to escalated system/design level service requests and resolve incidents
• Provide user-friendly, secure, accurate and dependable systems and support to all persons (including technical peers) while providing follow-up to ensure their satisfaction with the systems, services, and solutions rendered
• Stay up to date on industry directions and opportunities to advise USU on systems and services futures
• Identify system support / administrative issues that can be automated or transitioned to service desk personnel and help them develop the skills needed to support such systems and issues
• Adhere to the IT Core Competencies (https://it.usu.edu/files/ITCoreCompetencies.pdf)

The position will be hired at either level I, level II, level III or Senior based on the following qualifications and duties assigned:

• Systems Administrator/Engineer I:

• Bachelor's degree in management information systems (MIS), Computer Science (CS), or related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Systems Administrator/Engineer II:

• Bachelor's degree in management information systems (MIS), Computer Science (CS), or related field plus two years of related work experience is required; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Systems Administrator/Engineer III:

• Bachelor's degree in management information systems (MIS), Computer Science (CS), or related field plus four years of related work experience is required; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Systems Administrator/Engineer SR:

• Bachelor's degree in management information systems (MIS), Computer Science (CS), or related field plus six years of related work experience is required; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Strong desire and ability to learn, keep up with, and drive emerging trends, platforms, architectures, and technologies and works well in a team environment.
• Professional references supporting applicant's qualifications for an IT Systems Engineer
• Job offer is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check
• This position is 100% in person. Not eligible for remote work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining enterprise level systems and services
• Windows and/or Linux server administration, security, and tuning experience
• Experience in log aggregation, correlation and response policy
• Cloud architecture and platform experience including AWS (ECS/EKS), Azure, Terraform
• Experience with Microsoft ecosystem including Azure, Intune, SCCM, GPO, Active Directory,
• Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.) experience
• A solid understanding in networks and network security as it relates to enterprise systems administration
• Depth of understanding and practical experience in securing enterprise systems

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Ability to prioritize and triage work and requests to deliver what matters most
• Self-motivated problem solver
• Ability to work with limited supervision
• Excellent customer service skills
• Excellent root cause analysis skills
• Understanding of network architecture and protocols

Commensurate based on experience plus excellent benefits

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