Overview In this role, you will lead a team responsible for the design, maintenance, and security of enterprise servers across on-premises, virtual, and cloud environments. You will drive secure, scalable infrastructure aligned with campus goals and collaborate with IT and business partners to ensure uninterrupted operations. By focusing on cloud adoption and strong governance, you help advance UITS's mission to deliver reliable technology services for research and education. This is a key leadership position that shapes how campus systems are secured, operated, and modernized.
Compensation / Benefits- health, dental, and vision insurance
- life insurance and disability programs
- paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
- tuition reduction for employee and family
- retirement plans
- recreation and cultural activities
Responsibilities- Lead a team managing servers, virtualization, storage, backup, patching, logging and monitoring
- Run weekly strategy and coaching meetings; develop staff capabilities
- Define and implement server/storage/backup/monitoring architectures aligned with strategic plans
- Oversee enterprise projects, timelines, and deliverables
- Provide progress reporting and analytics
- Serve as escalation point and liaison between Infrastructure Services and campus IT teams
- Advance adoption of UITS Managed Cloud Services and communicate progress to stakeholders
- Build partnerships to deliver enterprise IT solutions for colleges and divisions
Key requirements- Ability to set expectations, develop staff, and foster a proactive team environment
- Strong team-building and change management skills
- Proven management, organizational, and strategic planning abilities
- Customer service orientation and effective communication skills
- Ability to absorb tech and business requirements and translate them into actionable plans
- Deep understanding of Windows and Linux server OS, AWS cloud services, systems security, monitoring, and incident/change management
- Sound judgment in complex, fast-paced environments; ability to collaborate and make decisions
- Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders and as a change agent
- team-building
- communication
- collaboration
- Windows and Linux server operating systems
- AWS cloud computing services
- systems security and monitoring
