Department: School of Professional Studies
Salary/Grade: NEX/17
Job Summary: Installs new software and infrastructure upgrades, evaluates and installs patches, monitors system performance and resolves related problems. Performs system backups and recovery. Maintains data files and monitors system configuration to ensure data integrity.
Please note : Position will be 95% remote
Target hiring range for this position will be between $35.00 to $37.50 per hour. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Specific Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning
- Provides recommendations regarding infrastructure planning and budgeting.
Administration
- Maintains growth statistics, space forecasts, backup systems, and infrastructure inventories.
- Performs data backups and recoveries.
- Monitors and maintains continuity with system licensing and maintenance agreements.
- Maintains production change control schedule and participates in change control.
Development
- Performs infrastructure upgrades including planning and scheduling, testing, and coordination.
- Performs infrastructure administration setup.
- Coordinates infrastructure planning and management.
Miscellaneous
Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications: - Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in a major such as computer science, information technology, or related; OR appropriate combination of education and experience.
- No experience required.
Enterprise Applications
- ImageNow
- Instructure Canvas
Infrastructure
- active directory design, administration
- identity management/provisioning
- information security
- LDAP
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook)
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Server hardware
- SQL/MySQL/Postgres
- Tomcat
- VMware vCloud Director
- VMware vSphere
- Windows Operating System
Programming Languages and Frameworks
- Microsoft PowerShell
- PL/SQL
- Shell Scripting
Certification/Licensure
- Microsoft (MCSE, MCSD, MCSA)
- SQL Server
- VMware
Compliance
Analytical
- critical thinking
- decision making
- enterprise directory services
- judgment
- problem solving
- Troubleshooting
- use-case analysis
Project
- facilitate collaboration
- iterative & incremental development
- organizational skills
- planning
Preferred Qualifications:
Priority consideration to all applicants who have 1 or 2 years work experience within an information technology role excluding internships or student work
Benefits: At Northwestern, we are proud to provide meaningful, competitive, high-quality health care plans, retirement benefits, tuition discounts and more! Visit us at to learn more.
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. Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics, including disability and veteran status. View Northwestern's non-discrimination statement . Job applicants who wish to request an accommodation in the application or hiring process should contact the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Compliance. View additional information on the accommodations process .
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