Applications Administrator Campus Applications & Data Unit

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The Application Delivery group (within the Campus Applications & Data Unit) leads the operations of campus software solutions that support the University’s enterprise administrative, finance and student systems. The objective of the Application Delivery group is to bring value to campus by securely maintaining these critical systems and supporting a continuous cycle of improvement and feature enhancements in a suite of tightly integrated custom and purchased systems.

To ensure the success of these mission-critical systems, Application Delivery is staffed with technical professionals who identify, design, create, test and implement new features, respond to campus needs, and keep all systems running optimally throughout the academic cycle and financial year. Application Delivery partners with areas across the university to ensure systems support efficient and effective operations, while introducing functionality to best support students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members.

Under general supervision, the Applications Administrator serves as a skilled Application Administrator with a primary focus on enterprise People Soft application administration, security, and automation for campus student applications and developer services. This position independently performs a full range of responsibilities including the operational support, installation, configuration, and ongoing maintenance of enterprise People Soft environments and multi-tier web applications.

A primary focus of this role is maintaining high operational availability and ensuring architectural safety through proactive patching and the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) to standardize and automate application environments. Key duties include managing deployment automation, executing routine migrations, implementing secure configuration choices, and providing tiered support across diverse technology stacks. Additionally, the Applications Administrator provides essential application support, executes code and object migrations across People Soft environments, and coordinates disaster recovery testing to ensure operational continuity across the unit's integrated software suite.

The First Review Date for this job is: 10/2/2026. For full consideration, please apply on or before the first review date.

• Performs technical installation, configuration, and ongoing maintenance of enterprise applications and multi-tier web environments across diverse technology stacks.
• Utilizes Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) to standardize environments and automate repeatable application deployment cycles.
• Develops and maintains CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployments, ensuring consistent and repeatable release cycles.
• Coordinates with developers to troubleshoot moderately complex application-layer issues and optimize system performance.

• Proactively monitors and applies security patches, maintenance updates, and vendor fixes to application environments to mitigate risks and ensure architectural safety.
• Implements secure architectural choices by applying campus and industry security standards to the design and…