Research IT System Administrator

Colorado State University • Fort Collins, CO

36d • $72,000 - $82,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This position will help create, integrate, and administer physical and virtual servers, on premise and in the cloud (hybrid) infrastructure that is used for research to support the college's strategic investments. The position will help manage the college's research computing environment, including applications, clients, file systems, and research related Windows and Linux servers. The position will also be able to function in a Windows server environment and maintain client interconnectivity from Windows and Apple OS systems. This position requires someone who is reliable, responsible, ethical, and able to complete tasks with a team and independently with minimal supervision. The Research IT System Administrator must be able to provide outstanding customer service and represent the CAS IT Team through daily interactions with different user groups such as students, faculty, staff, and administration. On-call duties are shared and may occasionally require evening and weekend work. The successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. by the start date. The department will not provide visa sponsorship for this position.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in Information Technology or related field and three years of equivalent experience.
• Server system administration/management experience includes security, policy compliance, and exception processes.
• Significant Linux systems experience including diagnosing errors and performance problems related to hardware, networking, and resource utilization.
• Strong interoperability experience with Linux, Microsoft Windows (desktop and server), and MacOS.
• Experience writing scripts to automate routine tasks.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated focus on Cybersecurity and protecting data and systems.
• The successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. by the start date. The department will not provide visa sponsorship for this position.

Nice To Haves

• Experience configuring and/or administrating Active Directory, LDAP, DNS, Shibboleth, SMB, NFS, and SSH.
• Experience/training in the deployment and support of VMWare and/or Hyper-V and/or Azure hosts and clients.
• Scripting experience in languages such as Unix shell scripts (bash, sh), PowerShell, Perl, Python.
• ITIL experience/training/certification.
• Project management experience/training/certification.
• Backup and disaster recovery experience.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Educational Services
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees