Systems Administrator - Windows & Linux

Location: New York City, NY

If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position.

Job

Reporting to the Associate Director, Systems, the Systems Administrator has responsibility for the effective and efficient operation of the College’s servers and systems. The Systems Administrator helps develop, plan, and implement projects and initiatives in the areas of systems operations and security. The Systems Administrator serves as a technical resource and works with the Infrastructure Team and others to deliver stable, reliable, flexible systems and services, and improves everyday tasks and operations that support all College processes.

The department is maturing its implementation of Agile practices, GitOps, Infrastructure as code, Automation, Cloud-First approach, Kanban, etc in order to improve the way of working and remove toil.

Barnard's server environment is a mixture of Windows and Linux systems (75/25) and this position will be responsible for servers of both types.

The Systems Administrator must embrace the principles of workplace justice, diversity, and inclusion and apply them to day-to-day work.

This position will be remote, though all Barnard staff members are expected to reside within commuting distance of campus. The employee must be available to be on campus, commuting at their own expense, as necessary to provide physical infrastructure support, attend meetings, training sessions, or similar events or occurrences. While this position is remote, we are a collaborative team and institution working online together through the workday.

All remote work arrangements are revocable and may be discontinued by the College at any time and for any reason. These arrangements will be reviewed regularly. In the event of discontinuation, the College will provide advanced notice to the employee when possible.

• Ensure that hardware, software, applications, and services are provisioned, monitored, and maintained in accordance with organizational policies and procedures.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents related to servers and applications.
• Plan and recommend courses of action for upgrading hardware and software.
• Research, test, and propose new systems, server technologies, and processes that can improve our current environment.
• Respond to business-critical emergencies both during and after business hours.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with others in Barnard College and Columbia University technology departments.
• Perform related duties as assigned
• As mentioned in the job summary, the administrator in this position will be managing both Windows AND Linux systems. You must be comfortable managing a mixed environment.

Skills, Qualifications & Requirements

• Must be proficient in the use of automation and configuration management tools like Ansible and Jenkins.
• Must have strong experience scripting with Powershell, bash, and/or Python.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience with MFA tools.
• Experience using web services and APIs.
• Experience with cloud service providers, such as AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
• Experience with Workday
• Experience with cloud data integration tools, such as Snaplogic or Mulesoft.
• Experience with some or all of the following: Infrastructure as code, DevOps, immutable servers, LeanIT, and Kanban.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent training and/or experience.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in computer operations, systems administration, and user support.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Higher Education.

Salary Range: $88,000 - $96,000

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the College's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Company

Barnard College

Time Type

Full time