Position Number 989475
Requisition No. S01638
Salary Range/Pay Rate Salary commensurate with education and experience.
Position Notes
OU COVID-19 VACCINATION POLICY
COVID-19 vaccinations are now required for all Oakland University students, faculty and staff.
Compensation commensurate with education and experience. Oakland University offers an excellent benefit program including a comprehensive medical plan with low contribution amounts for our employees, dental and vision plans at no cost for our employees, generous paid time off plans, a generous University contribution to our 403(b) retirement plan, tuition assistance for our employees and dependents, free access to our Campus Recreation Center and workout facilities, and flexible work schedules and wellness programs. These are current benefit levels subject to future changes.
Employee Group/Grade AP Band S
Job Category Administrative-Professional
Work Schedule FT/Reg (40 hours)
Shift/Days
This is a full-time position.
First consideration will be given to those who apply by January 11, 2022.
Pay Schedule Month
Number of Hrs./Wk. 40
Position Information
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or closely related field or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
Three years of experience in a large scale client/server production environment including multi-tier architectures, load balanced workloads, caching, web servers, application servers, and databases.
Three years of experience administering and supporting Microsoft Windows enterprise environment. Familiarity with PaaS and cloud networking services such as security groups, routing tables, application gateways, and DNS.
Three years of experience with automation, cloud technology, and virtualization solutions including PowerShell, AWS, Azure, GCP, configuration management tools and monitoring tools.
Working knowledge of directory services (LDAP, AD, Azure Active Directory), single sign-on (SSO) technologies.
Experience in Microsoft Azure (PaaS / IaaS) and Office 365 stack.
Knowledge of IT problem-solving methodologies and techniques.
Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills.
Ability to work independently as a contributing team member and routinely update director on results.
Ability to contribute to group projects and work collaboratively as a member of a strong technical team.
Ability to travel once or twice a year for education, professional development, or conferences.
Ability to perform light lifting as appropriate for equipment installations and maintenance.
Flexibility in work schedule; willingness to occasionally adjust work hours for the systems maintenance and upgrades.
Off-business hours availability in case of systems emergencies.
Must live in the State of Michigan. We currently offer a work-from-home option, but flexibility is expected if there is a need or request to come to campus. This requires that an employee is available to arrive at campus within 1 to 1.5 hours, if requested by their supervisor.
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Desired Qualifications
Experience with VMware application stack.
Familiarity with Splunk, Git, Zabbix, Ansible and Continuous Integration (CI).
Certifications: Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), AWS Certified Solutions Architect, VMware Certified Professional – Cloud Management and Automation, MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
All Qualifications
Unless otherwise required by an applicable collective bargaining agreement, all minimum, additional and desired qualifications are preferred, but qualifications, degrees, and/or experience deemed comparable and/or equivalent by Oakland University in its sole and exclusive discretion may be considered.
Additional Qualifications
Position Purpose
Join University Technology Services as a key member of the Technical Services team. Your work provides technical leadership, analysis, guidance, recommendations, services and support pertaining to:
- Core Microsoft Windows Server infrastructure
- Active Directory and related directory services
- Private Cloud based on VMware technologies
- Private – Public cloud integration, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Server configuration management
- Server and IT infrastructure monitoring
- Application deployment support using CI/CD and containers.
You will be a member on a team responsible for the performance, implementation, and installation of the datacenter environment. Working with the Director, you will establish the technical direction for these environments and implement the established direction.
Projects are enterprise-wide and supportive of both academic and administrative operational organizations.
The best things about this position are: 1) The teamwork; you are a member of a talented team. 2) The ability to learn and grow professionally. We provide many opportunities to continue to advance your knowledge and professional skills. 3) Your work matters to the students, faculty, and employees at the University. 4) The University offers an attractive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, flexible work schedules, paid vacation, wellness programs, friendly campus events, and generous retirement contributions.