Senior Systems Administrator

Department
 

Booth IT: Operations

About the Department
 

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges. Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment. Chicago Booth is proud to claim: -an unmatched faculty. -degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents. -a global body of nearly 54,000 accomplished alumni. – strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities. As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University’s core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas – the first business school to achieve this accomplishment. For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary
 

The Senior Windows Systems Administrator is responsible for planning, developing, and implementing technologies for the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth). The environments include Microsoft Windows, VMWare and Linux. The Senior Systems Administrator keeps abreast of technology trends and information, recommends appropriate hardware and software upgrades, and serves as a systems expert and advisor. In addition, this individual acts as a mentor for other team members and provides training as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Introduces and integrates new technologies into the existing Data Center environments. Implements strategy for the environment including the following: Windows, VMWare,Veeam backup solution, Splunk, Puppet, EMC Isilon/Unity storage, F5 load balancers and CISCO firewalls and switches.
• Leads special projects requiring thoughtful analysis and strategic thinking.
• Serves as an expert and advisor to faculty, students, and staff on Booth-supported technology.
• Automates systems to streamline server operations.
• Analyzes alternatives, develops business cases, and presents recommendations for technology to Booth IT leadership.
• Promotes teamwork and collaboration within the Operations team and across Booth IT department.
• Acts as a role model and mentor for other Booth IT staff.
• Resolves open issues within the service level agreements related to servers and networks.
• Answers technical inquiries and assists users within established service level agreements.
• Analyzes system logs and identifies potential issues.
• Troubleshoots any reported problems.
• Monitors and tunes system performance.
• Performs routine audits of systems and software.
• Installs and configures new hardware and software.
• Applies operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes.
• Creates, updates, or deletes user accounts.
• Performs backups.
• Documents technical environment and system configuration.
• Solves complex problems to configure, install, upgrade, and maintain server applications and hardware. Works to safeguard the integrity of computer software. Implements operating system enhancements to improve the reliability and performance of the system.
• Tracks compliance and maintains documentation for hardware, software, and service inventories for management reports.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
 

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

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Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 7+ years of work experience in a related job discipline.

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Certifications:

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Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.

Experience:

• A minimum four years of systems administration experience.

Technical Skills or Knowledge:

• Expert level knowledge in Windows, VMware and Veeam.
• Advance level of knowledge in the following  technologies: Splunk, Puppet, F5 load balancers, EMC Isilon/Unity storage.
• Experience managing networked servers with knowledge of switches and firewalls, network services, system utilities, hardware installation, and operating/application system installation.
• Experience in a multi-platform network environment, client support, backup and restore technologies.
• Expertise with system administration issues in a large and complex client server environment.
• Knowledge of backup technology, and monitoring and other automated systems management technologies.

Preferred Competencies

• Proven ability to solve complex systems problems, work independently, and work well with others in a team environment.
• Outstanding deductive and investigative skills to identify and diagnose complex, non-intuitive technical problems.
• Apply in-depth knowledge and experience of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.
• Yake a new perspective using existing solutions.
• Quickly learn new procedures, techniques, and approaches.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Effectively assist and train members of all levels of experience.
• Integrity and credibility to work with sensitive data.

Working Conditions

• This position is currently expected to work a minimum three days per week in the office.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (required)

When applying, the document(s) MUST  be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.

Job Family
 

Information Technology

Role Impact
 

Individual Contributor

FLSA Status
 

Exempt

Pay Frequency
 

Monthly

Scheduled Weekly Hours
 

37.5

Benefits Eligible
 

Yes

Requires Compliance with University Covid-19 Vaccination Requirement
 

Yes

Drug Test Required
 

No

Health Screen Required
 

No

Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required
 

No

Posting Statement
 

Employees must comply with the University’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements. More information about the requirements can be found on the University of Chicago Vaccination GoForward .
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