System Administrator

at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, United States Job Description The System Administrator works with a team to develop, implement, maintain, optimize, and provide technical expertise and guidance for services around IT Automation, Load Balancing, and Application Delivery. The incumbent, with an automation first mindset, will develop automated processes leveraging Infrastructure/Config as Code principles around new and existing services, that result in greater scalability, adaptability, time to resolution and increased efficiencies. With a heavy focus on the institution's load balancing and Application Delivery Controllers a successful candidate will leverage and enhance their networking skillset as they work with IT staff across campus to configure network flows for critical IT services. These network flows involve managing configuration for virtual IP addresses, content switching rules, health checks, and backend servers to meet a variety of application availability and resiliency use cases across the university's datacenter infrastructure, both on and off-site. Additionally, this role will serve as the primary systems administrator for our File Transfer Service, Proxy Services, and other enterprise IT Infrastructure. This Systems Administrator role will contribute to capacity planning, patching, performance tuning, configuration, security hardening, documentation, and troubleshooting for the services they are responsible for. An individual in this role will leverage traditional monitoring and time series metric aggregation approaches to enhance observability and instrumentation around the health and usage of services the team is responsible for. This role will assist in continuous improvement and innovation to enhance customer experience and modernization across our information technology infrastructure. Additional Information Technology Solutions provides information technology products and services for the administrative and business functions of Illinois State University. Through our Technology Support Center and our highly trained staff, Technology Solutions looks to improve the campus experience for all students, faculty, staff, and the rest of the campus community. Technology Infrastructure and Research Computing (TIRC) manages the physical server, virtualization, and storage infrastructure for the University along with offering communication and collaboration support in areas such as email, shared storage, and SharePoint. Additionally, TIRC provides networking infrastructure and delivers audio and video communication capabilities to campus.

Position Highlights:

There is the potential for a remote work or a hybrid arrangement in this position, within the state of Illinois. Illinois residency is required. Eligibility is based upon employee performance, appropriate remote working environment, and business needs.

University Benefit Highlights:

Insurance benefits , including health, dental, vision, and life Retirement and supplemental retirement planning options Tuition waiver benefits available to staff as well as their eligible dependents Paid holiday / administrative closures during Thanksgiving and Winter Breaks Paid benefit time For more University Benefit information: https://hr.illinoisstate.edu/benefits/ Information regarding eligibility for participation in the State Universities Retirement System and the State of Illinois Group Insurance program can be reviewed here https://hr.illinoisstate.edu/benefits/insurance/ To view full details and how to apply, please login or create a Job Seeker account