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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # IT Systems Administrator Senior-Infrastructure & Ops - **Company:** The City Of Austin - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $84,670.0 - $107,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Information Systems, Disaster Recovery, Middleware, Fault Tolerance, NetApp Applications, Backup and Restore, Data Storage Management, Information Technology, Data Management, Servicenow - **Published:** September 27, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/879cf9e7-8a94-455a-bc76-5e2168f2ccb2 ## About the Role Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed. * Knowledge of infrastructure technologies. * Knowledge of application and/or operating systems. * Skill in mentoring and monitoring daily work activities of others. * Skill in documenting and maintaining complex application and process or configuration information. * Skill in providing day-to-day system/application administration and/or system/application administration in support in a variety of work environments. * Skill in installing and maintaining applications, operating systems, or equipment. * Skill in identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and to implement solutions. * Skill in selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new concepts. * Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. * Ability to view the big picture when involved in a project and make decisions. * Ability to quickly become familiar with emerging technologies., * Graduation with a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in a field related to the job plus two (2) years of experience. * Experience may substitute for education up to four (4) years., * Strong demonstrated experience with an enterprise-level storage solution. Storage management should be the main/major portion of your daily workload. * Strong demonstrated experience with an enterprise-level data protection (backup and restore) solution * Some level of experience with project management. ## Description This position is an expert in a focused technology. Using comprehensive knowledge and competency, this position performs duties to support the research, evaluation, and recommendation of software and hardware products, and maintenance and development of the organization's enterprise level information technology (IT) systems operation. Duties, Functions and Responsibilities: Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned. * Performs advanced focused architecting, optimizing, implementing, configuring, managing, administering, troubleshooting, maintaining and monitoring one or more of the following: infrastructure software, hardware, systems/applications, middleware, servers/storage, and IP-based telecommunications. * Establishes and implements IT policies, governance, standards, and security. * Makes independent decisions for procurement of technical solutions in their focus area. * Creates, documents, publishes, and/or performs maintenance procedures and ensures all installations are in accordance with COA's specifications and IT standards/governance. * Assists in planning, designing, procuring and delivering software and hardware purchases. * Ensures appropriate product specifications. * Provides costs analysis. * Installs new specific software releases and/or upgrades including researching, testing and implementing new technology. * Participates in disaster recovery planning and testing, including fault tolerance and detailed disaster recovery plan maintenance. * Communicates and interfaces with members of the IT, vendor, and user communities. Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised: Provides technical or project leadership, training, and guidance to others. May provide leadership on work assignments., This position will be a key member of the storage team (within the Enterprise Operations & Technology Group) which is responsible for operation of enterprise storage and data protection under NetApp and Rubrik. This team also handles ServiceNow tickets for those systems and services. This role will provide engineering and operational support for the above solutions, as well as assist EIG and other technology teams as needed. Reporting location - The Grove -2400 Grove Blvd, Austin, Texas 78741 This position requires a criminal background investigation. If selected as the top candidate, you will need a successful Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) and Financial criminal background investigation (CBI) to be hired. Must reside in the state of Texas. This position currently is hybrid, and onsite presence is required as operational needs determine. 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