Campus Technology System Administrator
Primary Responsibilities /Accountabilities/ Essential Functions:
- Install and maintain web, application, and authentication server(s); ensures backup copies of all files are routinely made; maintains system documentation.
- Ensure the integrity and security of enterprise data, multiple databases, and during data transfer in accordance with department needs and industry best-practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Manage user accounts, permissions, access rights, and storage allocations in accordance with best practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Identify system problems, recommend solutions, and escalate as necessary.
- Apply vendor-supplied fixes necessary to repair security vulnerabilities.
- Assist in developing plans, schedules, and requirements for the deployment of systems.
- Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and software problems on servers and storage devices.
- Ability to adapt, integrate, and modify existing programs or vendor-supplied packaged programs for use with existing information systems.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Skills
- Knowledge of relational database systems and SQL tools. Knowledge of the relationship between databases and other software and the interfaces necessary to facilitate a cohesive system.
- Requires knowledge and/or operation of ERP systems.
- Knowledge of and/or experience in document creation, management, and imaging.
- Knowledge of current technology and practices, including application and network security.
- Good communication skills (oral and written) and good interpersonal and organizational skills, with a professional demeanor and strong personal ethics.
- Good time management skills, with the ability to take ownership and complete assigned tasks individually and in a team setting.
- Detail oriented, with good problem-solving skills and with the ability to anticipate and provide solutions that result in gained efficiencies in business processes and improved customer service.
Supervisory Responsibilities
None
Experience/ Education
- Associate degree in computer science, data processing, or related field
- A minimum of one year of experience as a systems administrator with a background and demonstrated expertise in hardware, documentation techniques, and systems analysis or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated specified experience is required.
- An equivalent combination of years of experience and education may be considered for substitution of educational requirements.
- Must pass employment background investigation.
Physical Requirements:
- Sitting: 6-7 hours a day
- Standing: 1-2 hours a day
- Walking: 1-2 hours a day
- Lifting: Occasionally
- Carrying: Rarely
- Pushing: Rarely
- Bending: Rarely
- Squatting: Rarely
- Kneeling: Rarely
- Climbing: Rarely
- Reaching: Occasionally
- Grasping: Frequently
- Fine Eye to Hand Coordination: Continuously
- Driving: Rarely
- Work Environment: Office building on site. Work performed is primarily inside, subject to variations in temperature and weather, equipment noise, and dust.
About Organization
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