Manager of Systems Administration; Remote from
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OIT ONLY RECRUITMENT: This recruitment is open only to current employees of the Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado. Applications are not accepted from contractors engaged in work for OIT, or any state entity, as contractors are not employees.
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As our new Manager of Systems Administration, you will manage a team of dedicated IT professionals who ensure the delivery of day-to-day operations of efficient and secure systems infrastructure for the state of Colorado. This position will deliver systems infrastructure and administration projects and operational efforts.
This position oversees daily operations and escalations for these services across state agencies and OIT. Understanding strategic direction and vision is critical to this role's success, ensuring operational execution aligns with the organization's and OIT's goals.
Some of the day-to-day duties:Assign tasks and support business-specific projects by applying subject-matter expertise and working with project and program managers to ensure all requested work has adequate resources assigned and allocated.
Create and execute plans to capitalize on strengths, address improvement opportunities, support team collaboration, and adapt to and learn from change, challenges, and feedback.
Supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines.
Ensuring the team follows all procedures and policies.
Collaborate cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solve complex problems; elevate high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; and recognize and capitalize on improvement opportunities.
Lead, assist, and support the adoption of Native and Hybrid Cloud strategies.
Actively engage in improving leadership skills, attitudes, and knowledge, especially as related to equity, diversity and inclusion. Attend training, development and group training on topics of inclusive leadership.
Minimum Qualifications:A minimum of five (5) years of experience in any combination of server operations, network operations, IT Infrastructure engineering or directly comparable experience.
Experience must include at least one year of relevant experience performing at the Senior/Lead professional level.
A minimum of three (3) years of experience in service delivery teams or directly comparable experience
Substitutions:Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications. There is no substitution for any required management experience.
Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
Preferred Qualifications:Experience with Amazon Web Services or similar cloud hosting solutions.
An Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner or Sys Ops Administrator Certification
Experience with leading, driving, or championing enterprise change and innovation initiatives
Conditions of Employment:OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state agency locations where they might perform work.
A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.…
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