Systems Analyst Senior

Job Profile:

Applications Developer 3

IT Applications

Full time

Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.

Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Designs, develops, and troubleshoots moderately complex software and applications in support of establishing a sustainable institutional technological infrastructure.

Engineering Technical Services (ETS) at the Fulton Schools of Engineering is seeking an Application Systems Analyst Sr. to support FSE enterprise infrastructure, platform engineering, endpoint management, identity, and automation services.

This position is ideal for a hands-on technology professional who enjoys building solutions, improving operations through automation, and supporting modernization efforts across on-premises and cloud environments.

The Application Systems Analyst Sr. serves as a senior technical contributor responsible for administering, automating, documenting, and improving technical platforms and operational workflows that support research, teaching, student success, and service delivery.

This role combines hands‑on systems administration with automation-first practices, emphasizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD-enabled change processes, Power Platform automation, Service Now-integrated workflows, and repeatable frameworks for access, configuration, deployment, monitoring, reporting, and lifecycle management.

$78,000 - $97,450, DOE

• Support and enhance the Windows, Linux, cloud, and infrastructure platforms that power critical services across the Fulton Schools of Engineering.
• Manage the lifecycle of infrastructure, platforms and systems across on-premises and cloud environments to ensure reliability, security, and long-term sustainability.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize services to maintain a high-quality user experience and operational performance.
• Contribute to operational practices that support resilience, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in infrastructure planning, maintenance, upgrades and modernization initiatives that support the evolving needs of the organization.

• Design and implement automation solutions using scripting, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, workflow technologies, and AI-assisted tools to improve efficiency, consistency, scalability, and service quality.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce manual effort, and improve service delivery through automation and standardization.
• Develop sustainable, well-documented solutions that can be supported across the organization.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative approaches that improve operational effectiveness and the user experience.
• Partner with colleagues to modernize technology services, streamline operations, and deliver measurable improvements.

• Participate in CI/CD and structured deployment practices to test, review, and release infrastructure, configuration, automation, and application-support changes.
• Support repeatable frameworks for provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, reporting, and lifecycle management of technical services.
• Help maintain validation, peer review, documentation, and controlled-release standards that reduce configuration drift and improve operational supportability.

• Support and enhance endpoint management, identity, and access services that enable secure and reliable technology operations.
• Implement standards and practices that improve device management, security, compliance, and user experience.
• Automate and improve onboarding, access management, reporting, Service Now-connected workflows, and service delivery processes.
• Develop operational dashboards, reports, Microsoft 365 and Power Platform workflows, and workflow solutions that increase…