Hybrid IT Systems Admin: VMware & Linux Expert

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Colorado Springs (CO)

Hybrid

USD 63,000 - 81,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Educational benefits

Professional development funds

Job summary

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs seeks an IT Systems Administrator to maintain VMware/Linux environments, assist with AD, and support research HPC systems. The role focuses on server configuration, automation, and incident response across mixed VMware/RH platforms.

Minimum qualifications include a CS/IT/engineering degree or equivalent experience, plus hands-on exposure to Ansible, monitoring tools, and Linux tooling. Hybrid work model with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, engineering or related field, or year-for-year experience substitution.
Experience supporting Ansible, Chef, Salt, or Puppet is required.
Experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, Grafana, Icinga, PRTG is required.
Red Hat Linux administration experience (CentOS/Stream/Fedora/Alma/Rocky) is preferred.

Responsibilities

Configure Linux and Windows servers in an AD domain environment.
Collaborate with senior staff on overall systems management.
Assist with AD integration and VMware ESXi environments.
Administer Red Hat servers on VMware, bare metal, and containers.
Write Ansible playbooks and Bash scripts for maintenance.
Monitor performance and respond to incidents using native and third-party tools.