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# IT Sr Systems Engineer

- **Company:** UMC Health System
- **Location:** Lubbock, TX, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, IBM AIX, Systems Engineering, Backup Devices, Bash Shell, Configuration Management, Databases, Data Centers, Data Integrity, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Windows PowerShell, System Software, Virtualization Technology, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Database Replication
- **Published:** August 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://umchealthsystem.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Business-and-Technology-Center/IT-Sr-Systems-Engineer_R21000

## About the Role

* High School Diploma or GED (Bachelor's degree preferred)
 * + 7 years of experience supporting, maintaining, and managing data center systems; working with virtualization platforms
 * Scripting capabilities are highly preferred (PowerShell, Python, Bash)

Required Licensures/Certifications/Registrations

ITIL certification + 1 field certification

Skills and Abilities

 * Highly technical, troubleshooting skills are required.
 * Effective written and oral communication skills are required.
 * Ability to mentor and help grow other team members.
 * Well rounded knowledge of how enterprise server systems work to provide applications to end users
 * In depth knowledge of how servers should be backed up, preserved, maintained for business continuity, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance

Interaction with Other Departments and Other Relationships

Internal: It is expected that this position will work closely with other departments across the organization to accomplish tasks/goals/requirements.

External: This position will work and interact with vendors and partners to accomplish varying organizational objectives.

Physical Capabilities

Ability to lift PC and server equipment, none to exceed 75 pounds. Adequate hand/eye coordination and fine motor skills required for typing. Listening and talking is essential in dealing with co-workers and customers.

## Description

This position is responsible for system management functions for all shared computer system platforms and operating systems, as well as datacenter operations.

Reports to: Director, Infrastructure

Job Specific Responsibilities

Daily assignments may include but are not limited to:

 * Centralized System Management Application Administration: Manage application used to push updates, packages/applications, and configuration management to servers.
 * Assist in planning, implementing, administrating, and modifying our overall backup strategy. This includes, but is not limited to traditional backup methods, VM-level backups, SAN data replication, and air-gapped backups.
 * Work with third-party vendor to manage databases to ensure optimal performance and backups.
 * Automate processes where possible and beneficial using scripting technologies.
 * Manager server architecture of the servers on premises as well as cloud platform servers
 * Capacity planning, security administration, ensuring data integrity, data back up and recovery, system performance tuning, system software installation, patching, upgrades, and general troubleshooting
 * Assist with strategic infrastructure design
 * Evaluate up and coming technologies and their potential usefulness to the organization
 * System Administration: AIX, Linux, Windows


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