Systems Administrator 3

Department PSD Computer Science:
Tech Administration

About the Department Techstaff oversees all systems engineering/administration needs in the Department of Computer Science. The Department of Computer Science is an academic department that has a rich history of advancing and defining new fields of discovery in the physical sciences and computer science, and this tradition continues today. Our inquiry and impact spans from the edge of theory to human-computer interaction to Data Science.

We are part of the Physical Sciences Division which includes departments and a number of interdisciplinary research institutes and centers.

The Computer Science Techstaff is responsible for the design, operation, and security of all computing infrastructure within the Computer Science department, including research computing systems, workstations, servers, storage, networking, and audiovisual environments. The Systems Administrator 3 is a mid-level IT professional who operates with minimal supervision and serves as a core technical contributor to the department’s. This role is responsible for independently administering, maintaining, and improving the CS department’s IT environment, with a strong focus on networking and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure.

The Systems Administrator 3 collaborates closely with senior technical staff, faculty, researchers, and external partners, and is expected to take ownership of complex systems, lead projects, and contribute to architectural decisions. The Systems Administrator 3 plays a key role in ensuring system reliability, performance, security, and scalability across the department’s computing resources.

• Reporting to the director of techstaff, acts as a senior technical leader, performs system and network administration functions independently, with an understanding of the interactions between hardware, operating system software, and network operations and the design and administrative requirements to ensure an efficient, reliable, secure infrastructure.
• Configures, installs, upgrades, and maintains server applications and hardware.
• Works to safeguard the integrity of computer software.
• Implements operating system enhancements that will improve the reliability and performance of the system.
• Administers operating systems, maintains security, and implements backup procedures for the organization’s information systems and peripheral equipment, such as servers, desktops, printers, and storage devices.
• Plans for, and installs, necessary patches, upgrades, and vendor recommended maintenance for servers and their associated storage, network, communications, and peripheral sub-systems.
• Installs and maintains an appropriate level of intrusion detection, monitoring, and auditing software as required, adhering to both security and operational policies.
• Lead, Plan and execute system upgrades, migrations, and large-scale infrastructure projects with minimal guidance.
• Collaborate with faculty, researchers, students, and staff to gather requirements and deliver technical solutions that support instructional and research workflows.
• Support faculty and staff with purchasing support and provide recommendations on purchases for research and instructional needs.
• Performs recovery procedures, scheduling, and backups, and monitors batch processes.
• Monitor system health, performance, and capacity; analyze logs and metrics to proactively identify and remediate issues.
• Configures systems and their components to maximize performance and compatibility while minimizing costs, contention, or inference with other systems.
• Recommends, installs, and maintains appropriate levels of hardware and software firewalls associated with specific server implementations.
• Assists in the development, implementation, compliance tracking, and maintenance of documentation such as; hardware, software and service inventories and management reports.
• Manage core infrastructure services including DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP networking, authentication, and access control.
• Participate in incident response, disaster recovery planning, backups, and security remediation activities.
• Document work clearly,…