Assistant Director, Secure Systems & Infrastructure

University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix; Tucson (AZ); Hybrid; USD 92,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Tuition reduction for employee and fam

Retirement plans

Job summary

University of Arizona invites applications for the Assistant Director, Systems Administration and Security to lead a team managing enterprise servers, storage, backup, and monitoring with a strong emphasis on security. The hybrid role is based on the Tucson campus and requires on-site work three days per week.

Ideal candidates bring seven+ years of related experience, including three in management, and strong communication and strategic planning abilities to align IT services with university

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of related work experience, including three (3) years of managerial experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team responsible for enterprise level architecture, design, maintenance, and functionality of servers, virtual server environments, storage systems, backup systems, patch management, and logging and monitoring processes.
• Conduct weekly team meetings to drive strategy and one-on-one interactions focused on coaching, development, and performance.
• Actively grow and diversify technical skill sets of each staff member.
• Define and implement server, storage, backup and monitoring infrastructure architecture in alignment and support of the university and campus strategic plans.
• Manage and oversee enterprise projects, planning, timelines, and deliverables.
• Provide weekly updates of progress through reporting and analytics.
• Serve as escalation point and liaison between Infrastructure Services teams and SVP/College/Division IT teams within UITS.
• Participate in building relationships and sharing/advocating UITS/campus needs to develop effective enterprise solutions.
• Develop and execute plans for comprehensive adoption of UITS Managed Cloud Services (where appropriate), and communicate regularly with IT leadership, faculty, researchers, project and program managers, and other key stakeholders to understand business requirements and provide relevant progress updates and performance metrics.

Skills

Leadership

Team building

Strategic planning

Customer service orientation

Technical aptitude

Windows & Linux

AWS cloud

Security governance

Decision making

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

University of Arizona invites applications for the Assistant Director, Systems Administration and Security to lead a team managing enterprise servers, storage, backup, and monitoring with a strong emphasis on security. The hybrid role is based on the Tucson campus and requires on-site work three days per week.

Ideal candidates bring seven+ years of related experience, including three in management, and strong communication and strategic planning abilities to align IT services with university