Systems Administrator – Enterprise Infra & Security

ucumberlands; United States; On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of the Cumberlands is seeking a Systems Administrator to support, maintain, secure, and improve the University's enterprise technology infrastructure. This role covers physical and virtual servers, virtualization, backup, data center operations, and POS systems.

You will work on performance, security, and reliability in a higher-education setting, collaborating with the Infrastructure team to ensure uptime for academic and administrative operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience administering Windows server environments, virtualization, and physical server hardware.
• Experience with enterprise backup and recovery technologies.
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, firewalls, and related infrastructure technologies.
• Familiarity with system patching, vulnerability management, security hardening, and cybersecurity practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to document technical systems and procedures clearly and accurately.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively while managing multiple priorities in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Configure, administer, monitor, and maintain physical and virtual server environments, including VMware infrastructure.
• Deploy, configure, upgrade, patch, and troubleshoot servers, operating systems, applications, firmware, storage, and related infrastructure.
• Administer enterprise backup and recovery systems, including monitoring and testing restores.
• Assist with disaster recovery and business continuity planning and testing.
• Support data center operations, including hardware, racks, cabling, power, cooling, inventories, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain access control systems, including servers, controllers, readers, credentials, and infrastructure.
• Monitor infrastructure for availability, capacity, performance, and security issues and perform root-cause analysis.

Skills

Windows Server

Virtualization

Networking

Security

Scripting

Documentation

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or related field

Tools

VMware vSphere

Active Directory

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Job description

The University of the Cumberlands is seeking a Systems Administrator to support, maintain, secure, and improve the University's enterprise technology infrastructure. This role covers physical and virtual servers, virtualization, backup, data center operations, and POS systems.

You will work on performance, security, and reliability in a higher-education setting, collaborating with the Infrastructure team to ensure uptime for academic and administrative operations.