Healthcare IT Systems Administrator

The University of Kansas Health System; Kansas; On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Kansas Health System seeks a System Administrator I to support enterprise servers and medical devices at the Broadmoor Campus. You will serve as a Tier‑II resource, coordinating with IT teams and vendors to keep systems secure and available.

You’ll handle upgrades, backups, documentation, incident escalation, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and change processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CIS or 2:1 equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in a related Information Systems field

Responsibilities

• Serves as a Tier-II support resource, engaging other team resources as necessary and as defined by support processes.
• Functions as a coordination point for issues related to systems between all IT teams. Act as an escalation point for issues with assigned systems that cannot be resolved in TRC.
• System Support: Maintains usable systems for end-users with the ability to work with vendors or other outside resources as well as internal hospital teams to resolve system issues within service level agreements.
• System Documentation: Maintains documentation on the systems technical configuration, contacts and functionality. Contributes and maintains common troubleshooting tips in the designated knowledge base. Keeps current vendor and system data owner’s contact information in the designated location.
• System Updates: Responsibilities include planning and scheduling system upgrades and updates. This also includes coordination with other HITS teams, vendors, users, interfaces, and other systems that feed or accept information from this system.
• System Security: Protects hospital assets and information by maintaining secure systems. Follows organizational policies and processes surrounding access management, regulatory compliance, systems architecture, disaster recovery, vendor management, and others to support security and integrity of organizational and patient data.
• System Integrity/Retention: Requires verification of application logs and other monitoring tools to resolve issues that could cause data integrity issues. Ensure retention periods for application data follow hospital and regulatory requirements.
• System Backup/Recovery: Verifies that systems are completing a normally scheduled and approved backup methodology. Verifies that systems/data can be restored in the event of a failure or disaster. This will include the completion of disaster recovery plans (DRP) and other documentation related to disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA).
• Data Entry: Maintain knowledge of applications and functional areas entering application data. May have responsibility for entering application data as required. Data entry should not include patient health information unless directly approved by management.
• System Printing: Knowledge of application methods used to manage print queues and printing workflow.
• Reporting: Ability to use application functionality to create, schedule, distribute, and print reports.
• Interfaces: Model, design, monitor, and support system interfaces in conjunction with dedicated interface staff and other teams. Maintain documentation surrounding the flow of data between systems.
• Troubleshooting: Basic problem-solving skills and capabilities to resolve application, workstation, and server issues under stressful conditions. Uses appropriate methods of escalation to both internal and external resources.
• Systems/Application Knowledge: Subject matter expert for assigned systems including design, interfaces, end‑user work‑flow, and end‑to‑end system knowledge. Monitors vendor road‑maps and communicates points of interest.
• Vendor Management: Communicates effectively with system vendors to maintain working relationships and proper systems support. Verifies vendor actions meet the expectations of the hospital.
• Technical Foundation: Understands technical concepts including, but not limited to, databases, networking, hardware, software, interfaces, medical devices, desktop support, operating systems, and others as necessary.
• Systems Analysis and Design: Ability to perform analysis for new system requests. Utilizes technical knowledge to ask relevant questions during systems analysis.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Skills

Tier-II support

System monitoring

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer and Information Science

2:1 equivalent experience

Tools

Windows Server

Linux

VMware

Job description

The University of Kansas Health System seeks a System Administrator I to support enterprise servers and medical devices at the Broadmoor Campus. You will serve as a Tier‑II resource, coordinating with IT teams and vendors to keep systems secure and available.

You’ll handle upgrades, backups, documentation, incident escalation, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and change processes.