Healthcare IT Systems Administrator III

About Berkeley

At the University of California, Berkeley, we are dedicated to fostering a community where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. Our culture of openness, freedom and belonging makes it a special place for students, faculty and staff. As a world‑leading institution, Berkeley is known for its academic and research excellence, public mission, diverse student body, and commitment to equity and social justice.

UHS provides comprehensive medical, mental health, health promotion, and insurance services to the entire Berkeley Campus community, including students, faculty, staff, and affiliated community members; with nearly 70,000 medical visits and 40,000 mental health visits to the Tang Center each year.

Healthcare IT provides and manages a comprehensive suite of technology services, infrastructure, healthcare systems, and specialized medical equipment that support both the UHS and Recreational Sports operations. These include Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management systems and applications, laboratory, pharmacy, radiology and medical imaging systems. Healthcare IT manages in excess of 50 physical and virtual servers, providing a high‑degree of redundancy and system security.

The healthcare systems we manage are complex and tightly integrated with other campus systems, processing and storing highly sensitive data for every student, faculty and staff member on campus. Healthcare IT directly supports more than 500 desktop workstations and 500+ network nodes for more than 750 staff members and volunteers.

First Review Date: 6/4/2026. This job will remain open until filled.

• Defines, designs and implements systems, services and technology solutions. Proposes and implements system or device enhancements such as software, hardware and network configuration, updates and installations for projects or services of moderately complex scope. Helps develop and implement network security programs for our extended healthcare network at Tang, Recreational Sports, and remote sites around campus; installs and configures network equipment and components and has some oversight over edge switches, VLANS, network segmentation, and complex port security protocols;
  
  helps implement new next‑generation firewall equipment, end‑point protection tools, and other network security platforms.
• Proposes and implements highly complex system enhancements (software and hardware updates) that will improve the performance and reliability of the system. Monitors critical healthcare systems for performance, reliability, security, and implements appropriate updates, patches, and system changes as needed. Evaluates new system management tools and services and leads efforts to upgrade or replace systems when appropriate.
• Has some oversight and supports centralized computer servers and makes recommendations for purchase or upgrade of new computer hardware. Evaluates server, workstation, management tools, and other core systems and recommends the purchase of new systems or major upgrades or replacements to existing systems, servers, network equipment, and peripherals.
• Analyzes, acquires, installs, modifies and supports operating systems, databases, utilities and internet/intranet‑related tools. Performs complex and advanced analysis techniques to monitor and support critical systems and server infrastructure, database applications, software applications, file servers, network operations, etc.
• Applies advanced systems/infrastructure concepts to operate the campus' internal data communications systems, including LANs and WANs. Performs moderately advanced network administration and complex security controls to protect our network and our sensitive health data. Controls include advanced firewall rule ACL management; VPN, VLAN segmenting, network access controls, network logging, web filtering, web traffic analysis, etc.
• Executes security control to prevent hackers from infiltrating campus information. Implements significant and highly complex security controls at all layers of the infrastructure to help protect our highly sensitive data; implements…