Sr. Systems Administrator - KSAS; Krieger Information Technology

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

We are seeking a Sr. Systems Administrator whowill perform in accordance with institutional policies and standards and be responsible for administration, configuration,scripting, maintenance, performance, implementation, security and support of various departmental and components of enterprise-wide platforms, including the installation and testing of new software,operating systems, related utilities/services, and hardware products as well as the integration of new products and /or software release upgrades into the current environment.

The Sr.Systems Administrator will conduct systems performance evaluations,monitoring, patch management and security evaluations. The Sr.Systems Administrator analyzes user needs in various computer environments (including but not limited to mainframe, Windows, andmid-range) and documents the needs so they can be evaluated for solutions. The Sr. Systems Administrator will ensure that allsystems environments are maintained in an efficient andcost-effective manner.

This position will provide Information Technology support for assigned departments. Will also provide direct supportto Krieger's Senior System Engineer overseeing the school’scomputational/research computing infrastructure, including physical and virtual Linux servers and clusters. Will lead projects at the department and school levels for the benefit of the larger community.

• Design business, clinical, education, or infrastructure solutions by meeting with customers to observe and understand current processes and the issue related to those processes. Provide written documentation and diagrams of findings to share with theclient and other IT colleagues.

• Design solutions that conform to institutional policies,standards, and guidelines, and infrastructure environment and tovendor and industry best practices to deliver a quality product.

• Recommend infrastructure applications that reside between enduser applications and hardware operating systems by working with vendors, customers, and other sources (i.e., open source orInternet2 initiatives) to provide configurable tools to the customers.

• Install and configure server hardware and operating systems by following technical documentation to provide a working product.

• Evaluate, implement, and manage appropriate software and hardware solutions by using best practices for the environment toensure system integrity.

• Install and configure infrastructure applications by following product installation and configuration directions and industry best practices to deliver a solution to the customers.

• Implement a schedule of system backups and archive operations by using best practices for the environment to ensure data/media recoverability.

• Provide server level administration (manage HW/SW, maintenance,upgrades and patches, account maintenance, backups and recoveries and assist users) by following documented procedures to ensure astable environment.

• Monitor and tune the system by following documentation and procedures to achieve optimum performance levels.

• Develop scripts and solutions by using departmental standards to automate systems management.

• Perform system software upgrades including planning and scheduling, testing, and coordination by following documentation and departmental standards to provide a stable product for the environment.

• Audit and maintain user access and authorization by following access and authorization documentation to provide for system security.

• Generate and maintain periodic and ongoing system specific reports by using appropriate tools to assess system performance,integrity and capacity in order to deliver a stable environment tothe users.

• Follow and maintain IT security awareness and best practices by understanding security principles as they pertain to environments supported in order to deliver secure solutions to customers.

• Utilize system management and monitoring tools and incident tracking systems by following documentation and standards to detectincidents, take corrective actions, and determine root cause.

• Monitor changes and resolve any incidents by responding to problems as they occur, by reviewing all processing and output ofthe newly implemented solution, and by proactively ensuring the solution works successfully in order to satisfy the…