Systems Engineer II

About the role

The University of Virginia Department of Computer Science (CS) is seeking a Systems Engineer II to join our team. The Systems Engineer will work independently or collaboratively on long-term projects, designs, and overall maintenance of the existing computing environment and related services. Further, the candidate will provide helpdesk ticketing support through a ticketing system to students, faculty, and staff in the CS department.

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing technical assistance to faculty, staff, and students.
• Resolve account, application, file, network, and other issues in a timely manner.
• Work within a team that shares responsibilities for system administration and user support for the department's instructional and research systems.
• Maintain and upgrade existing infrastructure systems that provide enterprise services to the computing environment.
• Maintain and upgrade existing infrastructure services and software.
• Design and develop configurations, workflows, and system integration procedures.
• Maintain technical documentation of deployed systems and services.
• Perform the installation and initial configuration of operating systems; perform upgrades and apply security patches.
• Participate in the development of test strategies, devices, and systems.
• In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements (only one must be fulfilled):

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering or a related discipline, and at least 2 years of relevant experience.
• Associate's degree and 3 years of relevant experience.
• High school diploma and 4 years of relevant experience.

Skills

• Experience administering an enterprise deployment of Linux.
• Familiarity with typical deployments of Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
• Experience with software compilation, patching and security management (Windows, Linux, MacOS).
• Configuring and maintaining Linux automation using scripting (Bash, Lua, etc.), Ansible or Puppet, or cron jobs.

Pay

Anticipated Hiring Range: $70,000 - $84,000.

Schedule

The selected applicant will be required to be on-site in Charlottesville, VA as needed.