System Administrator I

The University of Kansas Health System•Shawnee Mission, KS

About The Position

Systems Administration provides design, implementation, maintenance, and support services for server level enterprise applications and medical devices. System Administrators (SysAdmins) are responsible for maintaining end-to-end knowledge of, assessing the impact of organizational change on, and identifying the opportunities and threats surrounding the systems they support. Systems Administration also assists ancillary IT groups (Radiology, Lab, Pharmacy, etc.) as a tie back to HITS (Health Information Technology Services) and an escalation point for systems issues. These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Computer and Information Science or 2:1 equivalent experience.
3 or more years of experience in a related Information Systems field

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree in Computer and Information Science
1 or more years of experience in a healthcare setting
Technical certifications related to ITIL, Windows Administration, Linux Administration, or other IT or system related field of study.

Responsibilities

Serves as a Tier-II support resource, engaging other team resources as necessary and as defined by support processes.
Functions as a coordination point for issues related to systems between all IT teams.
Act as an escalation point for issues with assigned systems that cannot be resolved in TRC.
Maintains usable systems for end-users with the ability to work with vendors or other outside resources as well as internal hospital teams to resolve system issues within service level agreements.
Maintains documentation on the systems technical configuration, contacts and functionality.
Contributes and maintains common troubleshooting tips in the designated knowledge base.
Keeps current vendor and system data owner’s contact information in the designated location.
Maintains relevant training materials for systems.
Responsibilities include planning and scheduling system upgrades and updates.
This also includes coordination with other HITS teams, vendors, users, interfaces, and other systems that feed or accept information from this system. This would include server as well as workstation updates.
Follows department change request processes.
Protects hospital assets and information by maintaining secure systems.
Follows organizational policies and processes surrounding access management, regulatory compliance, systems architecture, disaster recovery, vendor management, and others to support security and integrity of organizational and patient data.
Requires verification of application logs and other monitoring tools to resolve issues that could cause data integrity issues.
Ensure retention periods for application data follow hospital and regulatory requirements.
Verifies that systems are completing a normally scheduled and approved backup methodology.
Verifies that systems/data can be restored in the event of a failure or disaster.
This will include the completion of disaster recovery plans (DRP) and other documentation related to disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA).
Maintain knowledge of applications and functional areas entering application data.
May have responsibility for entering application data as required.
Data entry should not include patient health information unless directly approved by management.
Knowledge of application methods used to manage print queues and printing workflow.
Ability to use application functionality to create, schedule, distribute, and print reports.
Model, design, monitor, and support system interfaces in conjunction with dedicated interface staff and other teams.
Maintain documentation surrounding the flow of data between systems.
Basic problem-solving skills and capabilities to resolve application, workstation, and server issues under stressful conditions.
Uses appropriate methods of escalation to both internal and external resources.
Subject matter expert for assigned systems including design, interfaces, end-user work-flow, and end-to-end system knowledge.
Monitors vendor road-maps and communicates points of interest.
Communicates effectively with system vendors to maintain working relationships and proper systems support.
Verifies vendor actions meet the expectations of the hospital.
Understands technical concepts including, but not limited to, databases, networking, hardware, software, interfaces, medical devices, desktop support, operating systems, and others as necessary.
Ability to perform analysis for new system requests.
Utilizes technical knowledge to ask relevant questions during systems analysis.
Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.