Senior System Administrator Manager

Title: Senior System Administrator Manager

Employee Classification: Sr System Administrator Mngr

Campus: University of North Texas

Division: UNT-Information Technology

Sub Division-Department: UNT-University Technologies

Department: UNT-Academic Technologies-120300

Job Location: Denton

Salary: 90000.00

FTE: 1.000000

Retirement Eligibility: TRS Eligible

Welcome to the University of North Texas System. The UNT System includes the University of North Texas in Denton and Frisco, the University of North Texas at Dallas and UNT Dallas College of Law, and University of North Texas Health Fort Worth. We are the only university system based exclusively in the robust Dallas-Fort Worth region. We are growing with the North Texas region, employing more than 14,000 employees, educating a record 49,000+ students across our system, and awarding nearly 12,000 degrees each year.

We are one team comprised of individuals who are committed to excellence, curiosity and innovation. We are transforming lives and creating economic opportunity through education. We champion a people-first values-based culture where We Care about each other and those we serve. We believe that we are Better Together because we foster an environment of respect, belonging, and access for all. We demonstrate Courageous Integrity through setting exceptional standards and acting in the best interest of our communities.

We are encouraged to Be Curious about opportunities for learning, creating, discovering, and innovating, and are encouraged to learn from failure. Show Your Fire by joining our team and exhibiting your passion and pride in your work as part of our UNT System team.

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CAS IT champions, builds, and applies technology to help UNT advance education, creativity, and research.

Benefits include:

• Flexible hours and remote work arrangements
• UNT scholarship (roughly 66% savings!) for employee and immediate family
• 36 days PTO with yearly accrual for vacation/sick
• Clear and reasonable work priorities
• Transparent leadership

This position serves as the senior technical lead for Windows Endpoint engineering, automation, security, and lifecycle management within Academic Technologies. The role is responsible for the architecture, deployment, administration, monitoring, maintenance, and support of Windows endpoint systems serving faculty, staff, student, classroom, laboratory, and research computing environments. The position currently supports approximately 3,300 managed Windows endpoints and is responsible for expanding management and security oversight into currently unmanaged systems.

As a secondary responsibility, the position provides administration, support, and lifecycle management of Unix/Linux endpoint systems used for research, scientific instrumentation, specialized academic computing, and laboratory operations. This position functions as a subject matter expert for endpoint technologies and is responsible for solving complex procedural, operational, and technical challenges.

The position collaborates with university and system IT staff, researchers, faculty, departmental staff, and vendors to ensure endpoint services are secure, reliable, compliant, and aligned with university objectives. This individual develops and implements endpoint management strategies, automation solutions, and operational standards that improve service quality, reduce operational overhead, enhance security, and support the university's teaching, research, and administrative missions.

Bachelor's degree in related field and six years of related computing experience; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Advanced knowledge of Windows endpoint administration and enterprise endpoint management.
Working knowledge of Unix/Linux endpoint administration and lifecycle management.
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Intune, MECM/SCCM, Windows Autopilot, Active Directory, and Microsoft Entra .
Strong Power Shell scripting, Microsoft Graph, Azure Automation, and process automation skills.
Knowledge of application deployment, operating system deployment, endpoint security, vulnerability management, patch management, privilege management, and compliance frameworks.
Ability to manage large-scale endpoint environments while maintaining endpoint health, security, availability, and compliance.
Ability to develop and…