Systems Administrator | VMware & Security Ops Leader

University of the Cumberlands; Williamsburg (VA); 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 involves managing physical and virtual servers, virtualization, backup and recovery, data center infrastructure, and physical access control.

You will work as part of the Infrastructure team to ensure the availability, performance, security, and reliability of systems supporting University academic and administrative

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience administering Windows server environments, virtualization technologies, 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 backup monitoring, restoration, and testing.
• Assist with disaster recovery and business continuity planning and testing.
• Support data center operations, including server hardware, racks, cabling, power, cooling, and inventories.
• Maintain physical access control systems, including servers, applications, controllers, readers, credentials.
• Coordinate with departments and vendors to resolve infrastructure issues.
• Monitor infrastructure for availability, capacity, performance, and security; perform root-cause analysis.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Analytical thinking

Documentation

Independent & collaborative work

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter

Active Directory & Group Policy

PowerShell

Python / Bash scripting

Backup and recovery tools

Vulnerability scanning tools

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 involves managing physical and virtual servers, virtualization, backup and recovery, data center infrastructure, and physical access control.

You will work as part of the Infrastructure team to ensure the availability, performance, security, and reliability of systems supporting University academic and administrative