Senior Windows Systems Administrator
- Employer
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Location
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not Specified
- Date posted
- Oct 5, 2022
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About the role
We're looking for a Windows Systems Administrator to help us operate, maintain, and evolve several business critical applications that support employees across the SEI. You will help us scale and improve our infrastructure by ensuring our applications are secure, reliable, and kept up-to-date and work closely with our product teams and developers to automate software deployment from inception to deployment and operations.
What you'll do
- Provide thought leadership and influence the direction of
Windows and Azure-based technologies.
- Oversee configuration management for a fleet of Windows
endpoints and servers in a hybrid environment to ensure they are
secure, reliable, and kept up-to-date.
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and fix issues in production related
to operations, applications, and infrastructure.
- Work with developers, infrastructure engineers, and IT
professionals to support our research mission.
- Are knowledgeable about Windows operating systems and
Azure-based services.
- Experienced working with a range of enterprise applications and
instrumenting them in a way ensures they are reliable, secure, and
maintainable.
- Are comfortable writing scripts and leveraging tooling that
improves automation.
- Are keen to experiment, challenge norms and deliver secure,
reliable, and performant systems that delight users.
- Enjoy automating and innovating rather than performing
repetitive tasks.
- Do not need to be a Microsoft 365 or macOS expert, but it's a
bonus if you are!
The SEI helps advance software engineering principles and practices and serves as a national resource in software engineering, computer security, and process improvement. The SEI works closely with defense and government organizations, industry, and academia to continually improve software-intensive systems. Its core purpose is to help organizations improve software engineering capabilities and develop or acquire the right software, defect-free, within budget and on time, every time.
The Windows Team builds, operates, and improves our Microsoft-based services which are used by engineers, researchers, developers, and operational staff across the SEI. We handle everything from Active Directory and Group Policy to Microsoft Information Protection, Intune, and Conditional Access. If it happens using Microsoft technology we’re involved.
Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science, Information Science, Information
Technology with 5 years of experience or equivalent combination of
training and experience; or a degree in other technical fields
(e.g., engineering) and years of relevant experience as described
above will be considered as well.
- Ability to periodically provide technical support on a 24x7
basis is required, including weekends and an on-call
rotation.
- Willingness to travel to various locations to support the SEI’s
overall mission. This may include national travel to SEI sites,
conferences, and offsite meetings on occasion.
- Experience as a Windows Administrator for a heterogeneous
infrastructure in a professional environment.
- You will have at least 2 years relevant experience maintaining
and evolving a Windows environment for the same organization.
- You will be subject to a background check and will need to
obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security
clearance.
Our benefits philosophy encompasses three driving priorities: choice, control and well-being. Through Carnegie Mellon University, SEI offers a wide range of competitive employee benefits to help you live well, including comprehensive health insurance, tuition benefits, and a generous PTO and retirement savings policy to name a few.
To learn more, visit these resources:
- Why Carnegie Mellon to learn more about becoming
part of an institution inspiring innovations that change the
world.
- Benefits at Glance to get a listing of all
employee benefits.
- Staff Member Benefits to get detailed information
about benefits for employees who are not faculty.
- Work with cutting edge technologies and experts to solve tough
problems for the government and the nation.
- Get 8% monthly contribution for your retirement, without having
to make a contribution yourself.
- Get tuition benefits to CMU for you and your dependent
children.
- Enjoy a healthy work/life balance with a flexible work
arrangement.
- Get access to university resources including campus fitness
facilities, mindfulness programs, child care, free transportation
on the Port Authority Transit System, etc.
- Enjoy annual professional development opportunities to attend
conferences and training or obtain a certification.
- Get relocation assistance.
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Job Function
Software/Applications Development/Engineering
Position Type
Staff – Regular
Full Time/Part time
Full time
Pay Basis
Salary
More Information:
- Please visit “ Why Carnegie
Mellon ” to learn more about becoming part of an
institution inspiring innovations that change the world.
- Click here to view
a listing of employee benefits
- Carnegie Mellon University is an Equal Opportunity
Employer/Disability/Veteran .
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Statement of Assurance
Company
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A private, global research university, Carnegie Mellon stands among the world's most renowned educational institutions, and sets its own course. Start the journey here.
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With cutting-edge brain science, path-breaking performances, innovative startups, driverless cars, big data, big ambitions, Nobel and Turing prizes, hands-on learning, and a whole lot of robots, CMU doesn't imagine the future, we create it.
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