Systems Administrator Operations

Organizational Unit- University of Victoria -> VP Finance and Operations -> University Systems- Location- University of Victoria - Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 CA (Primary) - Posting Close Date- 7 January 2025- Please note that positions will close at 4 p.m. on the closing date.- FTE- 1.0- Salary Grade- $72,242.00 - $93,951.00- Additional Posting Information- N/A- Salary posted will be pro-rated based on FTE and achieved as per the collective agreement, if applicable.- Classification- SG10- Employee Group: - PEA - Regular- # of Hires Needed- 1- Category- Computers, Hardware, Computers, Software, Information Technology- About this Opportunity**_This is a continuing position. Only those that hold Canadian Citizenship or Permanent Residency are eligible to work in continuing positions._** The University of Victoria is one of Victoria's largest employers and one of Canada’s best diversity employers. Together we are more than 5,000 dedicated faculty, librarians and staff supporting the University of Victoria’s diverse academic programs, world-class research and commitment to civic engagement. UVic compensation is competitive with - Annual salary increases including 3% progression increases up to the salary job rate, and 2% performance increases from the job rate to the ceiling, of the salary range - 7 hour work days and 35 hour work weeks - Generous vacation time off - 22 days to start, increasing to 29 days - Leaves - maternity, parental, adoption, personnel, sick and long term disability - Flexibility in arranging work schedules including possibility of some working from home - Access to personal and central professional development funds - Diverse range of learning and development opportunities - Sustainability initiatives including discounted transit passes and a pedestrian and bike friendly campus* UVic contributes to your and your family’s health and well being through its - Comprehensive medical, dental* and pension* benefits - Employee and family assistance program - Discounted athletic facility membership - Access to health and wellness tools and resources to support you in finding work-life balance **The salary range for this position is**: - **Recruitment range: $72,242 - $79,650 starting salary** determined by the PEA Collective Agreement. - **Performance range: starting salary to max of $93,951** is available through annual performance increases **_**This position may be eligible to occasionally work from home but must live in the local area**_** - Job SummaryReporting to the Manager, Data Centre Services, the Systems Administrator Operations works as part of a team to ensure the operational effectiveness of the university's servers, storage and data centres. Members of this team maintain administrative, teaching and learning systems related to business operations of the university. These systems are required to be in operation 24 hours per day, 365 days of the year. Functions include responding to user trouble tickets, responding to system generated trouble tickets, hardware maintenance, system patching, problem determination/resolution, performance and security monitoring, and usage reporting. This position requires the incumbent to use problem solving skills to analyze and correct software and hardware problems and to automate administration tasks. The incumbent also must possess effective communications skills in order to provide technical assistance to peers and the user community. This position will work offset week-day hours within 7am to 10pm and will occasionally be required to work other pre-scheduled hours or emergency call-outs. There may be occasions when this position is required to travel out of town/country for training. - Job RequirementsThis position requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other relevant discipline plus at least three years of experience in system administration in a large enterprise environment. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. This position requires in-depth system administration experience on either Windows or Linux and a strong ability to learn both as both will be used daily. In-depth system administration ability for Windows would include: - Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server - Experience with administering Active Directory - Proficiency with programming in PowerShell - Experience with SCCM, SCOM, WSUS and other Windows enterprise tools will be considered an asset In-depth system administration ability for Linux would include: - Advanced knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Proficiency with programming in PERL - Working knowledge of Bash and Python - Working knowledge of RPM (building packages and maintaining repositories) - Experience with Ansible will be considered an asset In addition, this position requires: - High degree of attention to detail is required, as is the ability to understand complex technical concepts and the need to maintain broad and in-depth technical knowled