System Engineer Sr - University of Rochester

Responsibilities **Position Summary:** The System Engineer Sr shares responsibility for management and administration of on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure services, including virtual infrastructure, operating systems, storage, maintenance and security patching, backup and disaster recovery preparedness, and performance monitoring. Orchestrating and performing automated tasks are key deliverables of the individual with this role. Scripts, code, and development are required in order to allow for the quick and seamless delivery of solutions within both cloud and on premise solutions. Design, setup and maintenance of a continuous infrastructure integration stack, including source control, build servers, automated testing, automated monitoring and solution deployment will be required. **Responsibilities:** + Prepares use case requirements, design solutions, and deploys on premise or cloud based infrastructure. + Advanced knowledge of on premise virtual infrastructure, specifically in clustered high availability environments. + Integrates on premise solutions with cloud solutions. + Automates and deploys solutions hosted on both cloud services and on premise infrastructure. + Independently completes proactive performance monitoring, analysis, alerting, reporting, and tuning. + Independently completes capacity analyses and provision solutions. + Completes maintenance activities including deploying patches and ensuring that firmware and software are up to date. + Independently completes incident and problem analysis reports, resolves and completes follow-up tasks to ensure platform stability. Escalates when appropriate. + Maintains an interoperability Matrix in order to ensure cross-vendor compatibility. + Creates and reviews technical documentation including solution designs and reference guides + Evaluates new products and services that will help enhance the delivery of infrastructure services. + Prepares necessary paperwork and documentation to ensure conformance to University standards and procedures. + Performs and advises others on implementation and maintenance activities during business hours as well as outside of business hours. + Serves in 24-hour on-call rotations when scheduled; escalating the most consequential issues. + Maintains a broad knowledge of technology, equipment, and/or systems. Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned. + Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned. **Qualifications** : + Bachelor’s degree in related discipline such as Computer Science, Business, Data Science, Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience required. + 3 - 7 years of related experience required; + Experience leading a team of System Engineers strongly preferred + Experience in higher education field preferred **Required Technical Skills:** + Expertise with virtualization technology. + Knowledge of server hardware and storage array networks + Expertise with server operating systems + Experience with orchestration and automation tools + Strong scripting skills + Experience with cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure **Required Business Skills:** + Excellent verbal and written communications skills. + Ability to provide on-call support as required. + Ability to perform after-hours and weekend maintenance and implementation activities. + Ability to travel to and from Data Center facilities. + Ability to actively participate in a team. + Ability to handle multiple tasks at one time and meet required deadlines. + Ability to contribute both individually and provide technical leadership as part of a team + Ability to interact with all levels of staff, as appropriate, to communicate, and to process communications from others on technical change. + Ability to present technology in non-technical terms and recognize the extent to which a given audience requires this. + Exemplary speaking and presentation skills. The University of Rochester is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion to advance the University’s mission to Learn, Discover, Heal, Create – and Make the World Ever Better. In support of our values and those of our society, the University is committed to not discriminating on the basis of age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, military/veteran status, national origin, race, religion/creed, sex, sexual orientation, citizenship status, or any other status protected by law. This commitment extends to the administration of our policies, admissions, employment, access, and recruitment of candidates from underrepresented populations, veterans, and persons with disabilities consistent with these values and government contractor Affirmative Action obligations. **How To Apply** All applicants must apply online. _EOE Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled_ **Pay Range** Pay Range: $48,000 - $95,000 Annually _The referenced pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation for this job. Individual annual salaries/hourly rates will be set within the job’s compensation range, and will be determined by considering factors including, but not limited to, market data, education, experience, qualifications, expertise of the individual, and internal equity considerations._ **Location:** Central Administration **Full/Part Time:** Full-Time **Opening:** Full Time 40 hours Grade 054 **Schedule:** 8 AM-5 PM