What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Administrator III position at USF College of Nursing?
- Job Identification 38826
- Job Category Administrative
- Posting Date 03/14/2025, 05:18 PM
- Apply Before 04/06/2025, 12:00 AM
- Degree Level Bachelor's Degree
- Locations 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL, 33620, US
- Essential Personnel No
College Division: Academic Affairs, College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity & Computing
Salary Plan: Administrative
Job Code/Title: 9576 / Systems Administrator III
Hiring Salary/Salary Range: Commensurate with Experience
Position Number: 00059427
Must be eligible to work in the US, will not provide visa sponsorship
Organizational Summary
The vision for the College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing is to offer undergraduate and graduate degree programs that prepare USF students for high-demand careers, empower faculty to conduct scholarly research that leads to groundbreaking discoveries and technological advancements, grow industry partnerships and promote ethical considerations and trust throughout the digital transformation underway in our world.
Position Summary
The Systems Administrator III serves as a technical expert on systems administration in a large and complex computing environment. This position serves as a staff specialist on multiple operating systems and platforms supporting enterprise-wide or large scale computing. The Systems Administrator III applies significant professional experience and training in information technology to the most complex assignments requiring development and installation of operating system software, systems programming and modification of operating systems, performance analysis, database maintenance and management, security administration, and management of data storage.
Responsibilities
Designs, administers and ensures the secure and successful operation of CAICC systems
Designs and implements complex local and wide area network systems, supporting enterprise wide applications or large scale computing applications involving hundreds of users.
Manages a large site or network.
Establishes or recommends policies and procedures for system use and services.
Installs, configures, and maintains multiple servers and workstations, ensuring proper integration with other university computer systems.
Performs software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software applications.
Monitors and tunes systems to achieve optimum performance levels.
Plans and implements system security procedures, to include firewalls, host and client access, file permissions, and user accounts.
Develops and implements various training, job aids, and instruction for users on the use of operating systems, networking, applications, and databases.
Maintains currency of knowledge with respect to state-of-the-art technology, equipment, and/or systems.
May lead or guide the work of other staff and/or students engaged in similar functions.
Performs other information technology duties as required to support the work of the unit
Minimum
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT or other field involving software and analytical training, and four years of IT related work experience, OR a Bachelor's degree with no specific required field and five years of IT related work experience, OR a Master's degree and three years of IT related work experience, OR a combination of eight years of IT related work experience and validated training.
Preferred
Experience in a similar position with responsibilities for mission-critical Linux/Unix systems.
Experience with system design, network design and network management.
Experience and expertise with standard industry operational practices such as a backups, updates, change control, etc.
Advanced knowledge of short-term and long-term performance monitoring and analysis.
Familiarity with approaches to operating system hardening.
Expertise with at least one fleet management systems such as Ansible, Puppet or similar.
Evidence of experience with long-term planning, budgeting and performance management.
Experience with TCP/IP based networks built upon a variety of layer two networks is required.
Experience Advanced Troubleshooting Techniques Is Required.
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