IT Cyber Range Architect III

Posting Number req
27243

Department Campus IT Services

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Location Tucson Campus

Address Tucson, AZ USA

University Information Technology Services (UITS) is the University of Arizona’s central technology organization. UITS delivers enterprise and specialized technology services that support students, faculty, researchers, staff, and campus partners. Through innovation, strategic partnerships, and a commitment to accessibility and continuous improvement, UITS supports the evolving needs of a leading research university and the communities it serves.

The IT Cyber Range Architect III (IT Architect III) operates and maintains the physical Proxmox cluster, storage systems, and networking infrastructure supporting the University of Arizona's College of Information Science Cybersecurity Learning Environment. This position manages the hardware lifecycle, ensures system availability and performance, maintains security boundaries between student and administrative environments, and coordinates infrastructure improvements with campus IT services. This role focuses on infrastructure operations, virtualization, storage, and networking systems.

This is a hybrid position based at the University of Arizona Tucson Campus and requires on-site work two days per week.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Outstanding U of A benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; U of A/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to U of A recreation and cultural activities; and more!

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• Cluster and Infrastructure Administration:
  Operate and administer the on-prem Proxmox virtualization cluster; administer the Ceph distributed storage system; manage cluster node roles, membership, and health; monitor and optimize resource allocation; maintain KVM/QEMU virtual machines and Linux container environments; troubleshoot infrastructure failures and performance issues; perform capacity planning and resource forecasting.
• Networking and Security Infrastructure:
  Maintain physical and software-defined networking (Proxmox SDN); configure and manage VLANs and network zones; implement student lane isolation and firewall rules; manage administrative and instructor access controls; configure routing, DNS, DHCP, and NAT; maintain security boundaries and administrative access policies; coordinate with campus network and security teams; conduct security hardening reviews.
• Storage and Backup Operations:
  Monitor Ceph cluster health and performance; manage storage pools, replication, and quorum; maintain ZFS backup systems and recovery procedures; monitor disk capacity and performance thresholds; optimize storage efficiency and performance; perform recovery operations for infrastructure components; verify backup integrity; manage storage licensing and warranties.
• Maintenance and Updates:
  Manage hardware lifecycle and warranties; perform operating-system patching and updates on all infrastructure components; maintain base VM and container templates; execute Proxmox and container platform updates; conduct security hardening and vulnerability management; perform routine system maintenance and health checks; coordinate with hardware vendors and support.
• Monitoring, Documentation, and Coordination:
  Monitor system availability, performance, and alerts; maintain infrastructure documentation and runbooks; coordinate data‑center and network…