Systems Administrator

University Information Technology ( UIT ) has an opening for a Middleware Systems Administrator position within the Software Platform Services team. This position is responsible for designing and implementing secure, highly available and scalable middle tier and web hosting infrastructure solutions.

Critical skills and experience needed to be successful in this position include at least two years with Linux systems, automated configuration management tools, application servers, shell scripting, and programming language.

Located in Salt Lake City, in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains, the University of Utah is the flagship institution of the State of Utah’s system of higher education and a member of the PAC -12 Conference. Salt Lake City combines the amenities of a major metropolitan area of more than one million people with the friendliness and ease of living of a small, Western city. Seven major ski resorts are within an hour’s drive from campus, and opportunities to pursue activities from biking to hiking to fishing abound. Salt Lake is also home to the Utah Symphony and Opera, the Utah Ballet, several professional sports teams, and a wide range of other cultural and recreational activities.

University Information Technology, the central IT service provider for campus, reports to the Chief Information Officer and is responsible for many of the University of Utah’s most critical common IT resources including the campus network; the Campus Information Services ( CIS ) portal; UMail, telephone, and online collaboration services; high performance and research computing; information security; teaching and learning technologies; software licensing; and a host of other systems and applications. For more information about UIT visit http://www.it.utah.edu .

Responsibilities

– Designs, installs, administers, and maintains highly available and scalable middle tier and web hosting infrastructure solutions

– Installs new software releases and system upgrades, evaluates and installs patches, and resolves software related problems

– Designs/develops, tests, and implements automated administrative tasks related to the middle-tier and web hosting infrastructure

– Monitors capacity and analyzes information concerning processing time, response times, application/software, CPU loads, etc. for future growth and proactively informs management of potential areas of concerns, makes recommendations, and provides capacity planning/metric reports

– Collaborates with service owners to configure applications that meet the business needs

– Conduct technical evaluations on new products and features and provides recommendations and directions for implementation

– Creates and maintains technical documentation on critical processes and standards

– On-call required

Minimum Qualifications

Requires a bachelor’s degree in a related area or equivalency with at least 2 years of experience in the field or in a related area.

MINIMUM DEPARTMENT QUALIFICATIONS :

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in a related area or equivalency with at least 2 years of experience in the field or in a related area.

Experience in at least three of the following areas:

• Windows and Linux system administration

• Automated configuration management tools (e.g. Puppet, Chef, SaltStack).

• Application servers (WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, Tuxedo, Glassfish, JBoss, IIS )

• Knowledge and understanding of Jenkins, Atlassian products (Bitbucket/Stash, Wiki), GIT , Crontab

• Shell scripting and/or a programming language.

• LAMP stacks

• AWS , Azure or GCP

• Experience with Docker and related tools a plus (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)