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Employment Opportunity

Are you passionate about IT and eager to grow your skills in systems administration? Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting out, we encourage you to apply!

This full-time, categorically funded, twelve (12) months per year, on-site and in-person Systems Administrator position designs, deploys, secures, integrates, tests, monitors and manages the District’s physical and virtual server infrastructure and operations that support the District’s enterprise-wide network and telecommunication infrastructure; performs day-to-day systems administration tasks and works closely with Network Administrators and the Web Systems Administrator to ensure optimal system speed, security, performance and reliability; and performs related duties as assigned. This role covers technologies such as virtual server hypervisors, cloud-hosted platforms, identity management, and a variety of security solutions that keep our environment running smoothly and safely. You don’t need to be an expert on day one. While experience with server administration, virtualization, and cybersecurity are a strong plus, they are not required. We’re committed to supporting your growth and giving you opportunities to build new skills on the job.

• Interviews for this position will only take place IN-PERSON at our Aptos Campus.
• At the time of appointment for this position, Cabrillo College requires all employees to maintain and permanently reside in the state of California.
• This position is primarily ON CAMPUS AND IN-PERSON at our Aptos Campus, with potential for occasional remote work.
• Cabrillo College is unable to sponsor work visas.

• Twelve (12) days vacation leave accrued annually; rate increases up to a maximum of twenty (20) days at year ten (10)
• Twelve (12) days of sick leave accrued annually, seven (7) of which can be used as Personal Necessity days annually
• Nineteen (19) paid holidays annually
• Five percent (5%) Longevity award annually after ten (10) years of service with increases to fifteen percent (15%) at twenty (20) years
• Professional Growth educational incentive program

Examples of Duties

The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to this class.

• Using enterprise-scale technologies, architects, designs, deploys, monitors, manages and trouble-shoots complex, highly available enterprise-wide systems including mail, document imaging, web services, capacity planning and storage systems; ensures the infrastructure is robust, scalable and efficient.
• Designs, monitors, maintains, upgrades and allocates physical and virtual servers and associated management appliances or systems; obtains vendor quotes for equipment and support as needed; upgrades or replaces operating systems on existing resources; upgrades server/management firm-ware; upgrades physical resources and allocates virtual resources as needed.
• Manages and monitors email systems following policies and procedures to prevent mail loss; safe-guards mail sender reputation and ensures business continuity; manages and troubleshoots archival systems to comply with legal requirements; analyzes statistics and identifies trends to determine growth needs.
• Develops, implements and maintains the District’s Active Directory infrastructure; ensures business continuity; analyzes and interprets data and statistics to identify trends, potential issues and capacity loads and growth requirements; identifies, defines and mitigates vulnerabilities; develops and employs mechanisms to identify system compromises.
• Performs identify management and account authentication functions for active directories, network, email and secondary systems; creates user accounts and assigns correct security permissions; creates email accounts and distribution groups; creates and modifies secondary system profiles; removes or disables accounts as needed; addresses compromised accounts by educating staff and users.
• With other IT infrastructure staff, monitors system alerts, messages, events, abnormal conditions and activities that may impact performance or security; researches, troubleshoots and works with other staff, manager and vendors to resolve system errors, failures and other hardware and software issues.
• Researches, troubleshoots and resolves complex and ambiguous problems, often involving a com-bination of hardware, operating system, internally developed and vendor application software and database structure configuration, resource conflicts and/or interoperating problems; installs and tests operating system patches, releases, upgrades and fixes; replaces failed components and engages outside support for firmware upgrades and system replacements as required.
• Assesses system capacity issues, evaluates software and other alternatives and recommends system upgrades or replacements; deploys, monitors, maintains and upgrades data storage devices; assists in developing policies and procedures to efficient storage utilization to meet District needs.
• Manages disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical, enterprise-wide applications and core infrastructure services; monitors and maintains replication and backup systems; ensures all data is properly backed-up to a secondary location following established procedures; restores backed-up data as required.
• Deploys, maintains, upgrades and removes software applications as required; codes script to automate, reprogram or modify existing or new programs; patches security vulnerabilities and adds/removes access; troubleshoots and modifies functionality, ensuring database integrity and availability.
• Participates in the control of access to District resources through virtual and physical security; maintains various firewall/access lists; uses approval processes to change existing or create new rules; creates security groups for file access.
• Provides on-call support for production servers, network systems and computing infrastructure as assigned.
• Leads and participates in various infrastructure-related projects.

OTHER DUTIES

• Maintains up-to-date technical knowledge in order to carry out assigned responsibilities effectively.
• Attends various meetings and serves on committees as required.
  Demonstrates sensitivity to and understanding of diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty and staff.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

• Understanding of, and sensitivity to, the diverse academic, socio-economic, ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, disability, and sexual orientation, of community college students, faculty and staff AND
• A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in management information systems, information technology, computer science or a closely related field AND at least three (3) years of enterprise server infrastructure administration experience, including configuring, implementing and testing releases, upgrades or changes to operating systems, servers and related software OR
• An equivalent combination of training and experience.

• Operating system architectures, characteristics, components and commands applicable to enterprise information systems and multiple platform operating systems.
• Enterprise physical and virtual data center infrastructure.
• Data storage technology principles, practices, hardware, components and software including cloud and virtual technologies.
• Network architectures and theory and principles of network design and integration.
• Principles, practices and methods of systems/network administration and maintenance, including configuration, performance tuning and diagnostic tools.
• Principles and practices of disaster recovery including virtual and physical enterprise backup solutions.
• Smart classroom and computer lab design and support.
• Database management systems and software, including architectures, diagnostic tools, commands and utilities.
• Tools and utilities used in monitoring and tuning system, database and application performance.
• Systems integration design concepts and practices.
• Systems security and capacity planning principles, methods and practices.
• Programming and scripting languages and utilities applicable to assigned responsibilities.
• Principles, practices, methods and techniques of project management as they apply to information technology projects.
• Applicable public and private information-related rules and regulations and standards.

• Perform complex systems administration in a physical and virtual multi-platform and operating systems environment independently and with a high degree of understanding of interoperating and integration issues.
• Develop conceptual frameworks and apply state-of-the-art technology to the design and management of operating system and network infrastructures.
• Configure and verify high availability and virtualization on security appliances
• Integrate storage with virtual technologies.
• Manage multiple layered mail systems.
• Analyze and interpret data and statistics to identify trends, performance, usage and growth potential.
• Add, delete, manage and modify subscriber accounts.
• Establish and maintain project schedules and balance responsibilities for multiple activities to ensure timely, high-quality results.
• Perform advanced systems troubleshooting and tuning to resolve complex systems management, communication and interoperating problems.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Understand and follow written and oral instructions.
• Operate a computer and use standard business software.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all those encountered in the course of work.

• A valid California driver's license or ability to access and use alternative transportation.

Additional Information

• Complete the application with a minimum of three (3) professional references and answer all supplemental questions; provide detailed information to aid in determining the minimum qualification requirements have been met
• Attach resume
• (Encouraged but not required) Attach all unofficial transcripts for college coursework completed, if applicable, (copies, photos, and downloads are acceptable) displaying any degrees conferred. Foreign transcripts must be evaluated for U.S. equivalency at the applicant’s expense