Network Administrator II

Aims Local College District•Greeley, CO

About The Position

Aims Community College actively supports an environment that embraces the College's Mission, Vision, Values and a culture of innovation and care. The College embraces and seeks to hire individuals who want to be a part of this environment and have the skill sets necessary to be successful in this position. Aims Community College's Network, Infrastructure and Communication Systems (NIC) team consists of five network and systems administrators and a team Director who reports to the Chief Information Officer/AVP. This team highly values collaboration. All of the team members manage all of our systems. Two of the team members (including this position) focus primarily on network design, performance, troubleshooting and maintenance. The other three team members focus primarily on systems administration for many applications, as well as server management. We support multiple campuses and our own primary and secondary datacenters. We rotate on-call duties through the team, usually about 1 week per month per team member. We work the usual business hours but do have systems maintenance days and other maintenance days where we work non-business hours. We use Palo Alto firewalls, Extreme switches, and Aruba wireless controllers and access points. We use ClearPass as a network access control solution. Our systems include: VMware/Hyper-V and SANs – we are about 95% virtualized, Dell hardware (hosts/servers, storage), Windows and Linux servers, Avaya Cloud Office telecom, TeamDynamix ESM, and Veeam backup and replication. Other IT teams reporting to the CIO/AVP at Aims include IT Service Center (helpdesk, computer management and user assistance), Enterprise Services (manages Workday and other enterprise services), and Cybersecurity.

Requirements

Associate's Degree in Computer Science or another related field; plus, four (4) years of experience repairing, maintaining, and troubleshooting wired and wireless networks and multiple server environments, operating numerous software applications and computers in a complex, dynamic datacenter and networked environment, and knowledge of fiber networks or an equivalent combination of education and/or work experience.
Extensive knowledge of: Windows and LInux operating systems and networking for virtual servers.
Network and switch configuration, installation, testing, and monitoring procedures.
Other applicable certifications.
This position requires the use of a company vehicle for business travel. The selected candidate must successfully pass an MVR and be insurable under Aims insurance.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS: Cover Letter Resume Applicable certifications

Nice To Haves

CCNA, CCNE, A+, Net+, Extreme or other relevant certifications

Responsibilities

Install, maintain, and enhance the College network infrastructure for both wired and wireless: Monitor functionality, troubleshoot, or upgrade as necessary
Responsible for Windows and Linux network configuration.
System diagnostics and troubleshooting, including analysis of ongoing performance, system slowdowns, and bottlenecks.
Monitoring and health of day-to-day operations of networks, servers, systems, and all other mission-critical IT systems, as well as vulnerability patch management.
Check all monitoring systems for issues daily. Create tickets and resolve issues as needed.
Product research, AP and switch configurations, hypervisor network configurations, device builds and implementations, lift, install, and move servers and devices in the datacenter and other sites as needed.
Research, propose, and implement IT-based solutions for Aims.
Solve issues with hardware, software, network function, and telecommunications for any and all systems used at Aims. Assist peers in IT in solving problems/troubleshooting.
Install, configure, and perform maintenance on IT hardware (servers, network equipment, wireless access points, etc.) where required on any of the Aims campuses.
Document processes, procedures, equipment details, configurations, software specifics, network or systems administration notes, and any job-related functions in the departmental knowledge base for the Network, Infrastructure and Communication Systems team.
Other Duties as Assigned

Benefits

Benefits are effective immediately
100% employer provided medical & dental coverage employees (employee only option)
85% employer provided medical & dental coverage for employee's spouse and/or family
Voluntary vision insurance
Staff Annual Leave (minimum accrual of 15 days) & Sick (minimum accrual of 12 days)
17 paid holidays and 3 personal days each year
Summer schedule: 4-day work week - Fridays Off
Employer paid long-term disability and life insurance premiums
Tuition waiver & reimbursement for employees
Tuition waiver for dependents
PERA employer (see www.copera.org for comprehensive benefits)
Additional supplemental benefits & retirement programs available
Access to the PERC (Aims gym) for employee & one guest
Free parking on all campuses