System Administrator II

Requisition Details

GENERAL REQUISITION INFORMATION

EEO Statement:

UNMC is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, including an equal opportunity employer of protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Location Omaha, NE

Requisition Number:  Department Research Information Technology Ofc  Business Unit Vice Chancellor for Research Reg-Temp Full-Time Regular Work Schedule Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 5:00PM; some evenings & weekends may be required Remote/Telecommuting Hybrid (part-time working on site, part-time working off-site) Position Summary

Responsible for the upkeep, configuration, and reliable operation of computer servers and their installed application software. Ensures that the uptime, performance, resources, and security of those computers meets the needs of the users, while complying with applicable policies. Expected to perform some essential IT duties outside regular office hours if needed.

Position Details

Additional Information

Posting Category Operations Working Title System Administrator II Job Title Information Technology Specialist Salary Grade IT24S Appointment Type B1 - REG MGR PROF SALARY Salary Range $75,400 - $113,100/annual Job

Requisition Begin Date 01/20/2026 Application Review Date 02/02/2026 Review Date Information:

Initial application review will begin on the date provided in the field above. Applications received prior to this review date will be considered. Applications received after the review date may be considered.

Required and

Preferred Qualifications

Required

Education:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent If any degree major/training is required, please specify the type. (

NOTE:

Concentration and minors are not equivalent to a major)

Computer Science or related field

(Will consider eight years related education/experience)

Required Experience 4 years If any experience is required, please specify what kind of experience:

UNIX systems administration, as a central and daily focus, with emphasis on shell or Python scripting.

(Will consider eight years related education/experience)

Required License No If yes, what is the required licensure/certification? Required Computer Applications:
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Not Applicable Required Other Computer Applications:
Sudo, SSH, sftp. Required Additional

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

* Able to perform some job functions in situations where Internet connectivity is not available;

Able to work independently;

* Thorough understanding of UNIX access controls and process model; SSH and SFTP with public key authentication;

* Revision control workflows (git, subversion, etc.);

* Bourne shell (sh, bash, zsh) scripting and using standard UNIX utilities to build pipelines for ad-hoc tasks.

Preferred Education:

Bachelor's degree If any degree/training is preferred, please specify the type:

AWS Training

Preferred Experience:

Working experience with UNMC research IT infrastructure, working with UNMC research community on providing technical solutions.

Windows Server administration; hypervisor administration; relational database administration; containerization; basic web application development.

Preferred License:
Yes If yes, what is the preferred licensure/certification?:

AWS training and certification

Preferred Computer Applications:
Microsoft Outlook Preferred Other Computer Applications: VMware Workstation, Virtual Box or virt-manager; VMware vCenter or similar;
Rsync, Rclone, Globus; vsCode, Xcode, Visual Studio or other IDE;
Jupyter Notebook; git, subversion Preferred Additional

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

* Windows Server administration;
Web application and database deployments in Linux platforms. Active Directory and management of Windows networks;

* Data transfer over networks;
Virtualization with VMware/Proxmox, Microsoft Hyper-V; SQL;
Basic database administration of databases such as Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server;
Network file systems including NFS, SMB/CIFS;
Basic application development using computer languages such as PHP, Python, Perl, C, C++;

* Basic web development using technologies such as HTML5, CSS, PHP, Python.

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