Systems Administration Manager

System Administration Manager

The System Administration Manager manages and provides technical leadership for the Computer Science Department's Technical Staff, which provides a large and diverse set of computer-based services in support of departmental research, teaching, and administration. The System Administration Manager must possess mature technical skills, sufficient to take a first-among-equals position within a talented technical staff; well-developed administrative skills, which include long term computational facility planning and budgeting; and strong personal skills. The System Administration Manager reports to the Manager and the Departmental Chair.

Responsibilities include :

• Responsible for long-term planning and requirement specification in departmental research, instructional, and administrative computing.
• Knowledgeable with datacenter operations, such as racking and installing machines and understanding cooling systems.
• Oversees the Computer Science computer infrastructure, including both Linux and Apple machines.
• Collaborates with PSD IT Team and the Office of CISO, IT security, etc.
• Manages all IT needs for the Computer Science department.
• Manages four professional staff. Establishes performance goals, allocates resources and assesses policies for direct subordinates.
• Work directly with faculty who often have advanced and sometimes novel research computing needs and will assist them in advising on the computational components of grant proposals in support of research computing.
• Works with the Computing Committee Chair, and will serve ex officio on the Department's Computing Committee, which identifies short- and long-term issues and opportunities in departmental research computing, which provides research computing leadership and support, and which sets policies for all departmental computing in accordance with general University policies.
• Works with the Department's Directors of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, the Departmental Counselor, and Instructional Lab Manager on providing instructional computing leadership and support.
• Assists the Departmental Chair and Departmental Administrator on providing administrative computing leadership and support.
• Collaborates with other high-level IT professionals at the University, representing the department in technical matters, and seeking operational efficiencies through cooperation with other units.
• Manages a single team's progress by maintaining accurate and up-to-date logs, ensures that all projects have the necessary management oversight and approvals for successful completion.
• Ensures the implementation of approved best practices and information technology policies that result in the highest quality systems administration.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum qualifications include a college or university degree in a related field and 7+ years of work experience in a related job discipline. Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree in computer science, experience managing networked servers and workstations with knowledge of TCP / IP network services, system utilities, hardware installation, and OS installation, and experience with research technologies including SLURM.

Application documents must be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.