System Administrator I

The University of Kansas Health System; Liberty (MO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Kansas Health System is hiring a System Administrator I at Liberty Hospital. The role focuses on designing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting server-level enterprise applications and medical devices.

You will serve as a Tier-II resource, coordinate IT systems, and work with vendors and hospital teams to resolve issues within SLAs. Required are a Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Science or 2:1 equivalent experience and at least 3 years in Information

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Science or 2:1 equivalent experience.
• 3 or more years of experience in a related Information Systems field.
• Preferred: Master's Degree in Computer and Information Science and healthcare setting experience.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a Tier-II support resource and coordinates with other IT resources as defined by support processes.
• Acts as escalation point for issues with assigned systems.
• Maintains usable systems for end-users and coordinates with vendors and internal hospital teams to resolve issues within SLAs.
• Maintains documentation on system configuration, contacts, and functionality; updates knowledge base and training materials.
• Plans and schedules system upgrades and updates in coordination with HITS teams, vendors, users, and interfaces.
• Protects hospital assets and information by maintaining secure systems and following access management and compliance policies.
• Verifies backups and disaster recovery plans; ensures data retention per requirements.
• Knowledge of applications and data entry as required; understands system interfaces and data flows.

Skills

Tier-II support

Coordination

System documentation

Troubleshooting

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer and information science or 2:1 equivalent experience

Master's degree in computer and information science

Tools

ITIL certifications

Windows Administration

Linux Administration

Job description

Position Title System Administrator I Liberty Hospital

Position Summary / Career Interest: Systems Administration provides design, implementation, maintenance, and support services for server level enterprise applications and medical devices. System Administrators (SysAdmins) are responsible for maintaining end-to-end knowledge of, assessing the impact of organizational change on, and identifying the opportunities and threats surrounding the systems they support. Systems Administration also assists ancillary IT groups (Radiology, Lab, Pharmacy, etc.) as a tie back to HITS (Health Information Technology Services) and an escalation point for systems issues.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• 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. Maintains relevant training materials for systems.
• 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. This would include server as well as workstation updates. Follows department change request processes.
• 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.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Computer and Information Science or 2:1 equivalent experience.
• 3 or more years of experience in a related Information Systems field.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Master's Degree in Computer and Information Science
• 1 or more years of experience in a healthcare setting.

Preferred Licensure and Certification

• Technical certifications related to ITIL, Windows Administration, Linux Administration, or other IT or system related field of study.

Time Type

Full time

Important information for you to know as you apply

The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status. See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.

Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP.

About The University of Kansas Health System

As part of the region’s premier academic medical center, The University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City is a world-class healthcare provider and destination for complex care and diagnosis. We are driven by our commitment to service, continuous improvement and to the highest degree of excellence. Collaboration between physicians, nurses, researchers, educators and other professionals who share their expertise leads to exciting discoveries and life-changing treatments for the people we serve.