Systems Administrator

Salary: See Position Description
Location : 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA
Job Type: Full-time (100%)
Job Number: 2026-02178
Department: IT (Information Technology)
Division: FAS (Finance and Administrative Services)
Opening Date: 07/16/2026
Closing Date: 8/6/2026 11:59 PM Pacific


Please apply for this job directly on the Cabrillo College job opportunities page here.

Employment Opportunity


Are you passionate about IT and eager to grow your skills in systems administration? Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting out, we encourage you to apply!

This full-time, categorically funded, twelve (12) months per year, on-site and in-person Systems Administrator position designs, deploys, secures, integrates, tests, monitors and manages the District's physical and virtual server infrastructure and operations that support the District's enterprise-wide network and telecommunication infrastructure; performs day-to-day systems administration tasks and works closely with Network Administrators and the Web Systems Administrator to ensure optimal system speed, security, performance and reliability; and performs related duties as assigned. This role covers technologies such as virtual server hypervisors, cloud-hosted platforms, identity management, and a variety of security solutions that keep our environment running smoothly and safely. You don't need to be an expert on day one. While experience with server administration, virtualization, and cybersecurity are a strong plus, they are not required. We're committed to supporting your growth and giving you opportunities to build new skills on the job.

Concerned that you might not be qualified? We are searching for a highly motivated and dedicated individual with a strong work ethic and unwavering integrity. Our ideal candidate possesses excellent problem-solving skills, including the ability to analyze complex situations, identify root causes, and develop effective, innovative solutions. We value proactive individuals who are enthusiastic about learning new technologies, resourceful in navigating challenges, and committed to delivering high-quality results.

This is a dynamic position in an inclusive environment with plenty of room to expand into adjacent technologies and systems. If you're curious, motivated, and ready to build your career in IT, we'd love to hear from you!

Cabrillo College is an Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) with a special focus on enhancing the Latinx student experience. Come join our team, valuing high-level and innovative instruction, support services, a welcoming environment, and helping to change the world one student at a time! The ideal candidate will share Cabrillo's commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. Cabrillo College serves approximately 10,500+ students per term. As of 2025 Academic Year, 71% of Cabrillo students are members of minoritized populations, identifying themselves as LatinX (49%), Multi Ethnic (20%), Asian (1%), Black Non-Hispanic (<1%), Filipino (<1%), American Indian/Alaskan Native(<1%) and Pacific Islander (<1%). In 2006, Cabrillo College was designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community.

ATTENTION APPLICANTS

• Interviews for this position will only take place IN-PERSON at our Aptos Campus.
• At the time of appointment for this position, Cabrillo College requires all employees to maintain and permanently reside in the state of California.
• This position is primarily ON CAMPUS AND IN-PERSON at our Aptos Campus, with potential for occasional remote work.
• Cabrillo College is unable to sponsor work visas.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Starting Salary Range: $7,970 to $9,226 per month ; plus 5% annual increases up to step 7, maximum initial salary step placement on the is step 4. Full-time (40 hours per week) assignment, 12 months per year. Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. with evenings and weekends as required
Classified employees are required to join the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and as such contribute 8% of their monthly salary to CalPERS on a pre-tax basis. Position scheduled to begin as soon as possible, pending continued categorical funding and Governing Board ratification. Salary is subject to proration based on the beginning date of assignment. Cabrillo is unable to sponsor work visas.
Benefits: Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, life, short and long term, and vision (optional) insurance provided at a share of cost on a pretax basis, CalPERS Retirement and an Employee Assistance Program. Please see the Benefits link on the HR webpage for more information.
Work-Life Balance: This opportunity is a full-time assignment, 12 months per year. Classified employee benefits include:

• Twelve (12) days vacation leave accrued annually; rate increases up to a maximum of twenty (20) days at year ten (10)
• Twelve (12) days of sick leave accrued annually, seven (7) of which can be used as Personal Necessity days annually
• Nineteen (19) paid holidays annually
• Five percent (5%) Longevity award annually after ten (10) years of service with increases to fifteen percent (15%) at twenty (20) years
• Professional Growth educational incentive program

As a classified staff member at Cabrillo College, you will join a vibrant community of professionals and educators working together to provide a positive educational environment where our students experience diverse academic and cultural perspectives.

Examples of Duties
The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to this class.

• Using enterprise-scale technologies, architects, designs, deploys, monitors, manages and trouble-shoots complex, highly available enterprise-wide systems including mail, document imaging, web services, capacity planning and storage systems; ensures the infrastructure is robust, scalable and efficient.
• Designs, monitors, maintains, upgrades and allocates physical and virtual servers and associated management appliances or systems; obtains vendor quotes for equipment and support as needed; upgrades or replaces operating systems on existing resources; upgrades server/management firm-ware; upgrades physical resources and allocates virtual resources as needed.
• Manages and monitors email systems following policies and procedures to prevent mail loss; safe-guards mail sender reputation and ensures business continuity; manages and troubleshoots archival systems to comply with legal requirements; analyzes statistics and identifies trends to determine growth needs.
• Develops, implements and maintains the District's Active Directory infrastructure; ensures business continuity; analyzes and interprets data and statistics to identify trends, potential issues and capacity loads and growth requirements; identifies, defines and mitigates vulnerabilities; develops and employs mechanisms to identify system compromises.
• Performs identify management and account authentication functions for active directories, network, email and secondary systems; creates user accounts and assigns correct security permissions; creates email accounts and distribution groups; creates and modifies secondary system profiles; removes or disables accounts as needed; addresses compromised accounts by educating staff and users.
• With other IT infrastructure staff, monitors system alerts, messages, events, abnormal conditions and activities that may impact performance or security; researches, troubleshoots and works with other staff, manager and vendors to resolve system errors, failures and other hardware and software issues.
• Researches, troubleshoots and resolves complex and ambiguous problems, often involving a com-bination of hardware, operating system, internally developed and vendor application software and database structure configuration, resource conflicts and/or interoperating problems; installs and tests operating system patches, releases, upgrades and fixes; replaces failed components and engages outside support for firmware upgrades and system replacements as required.
• Assesses system capacity issues, evaluates software and other alternatives and recommends system upgrades or replacements; deploys, monitors, maintains and upgrades data storage devices; assists in developing policies and procedures to efficient storage utilization to meet District needs.
• Manages disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical, enterprise-wide applications and core infrastructure services; monitors and maintains replication and backup systems; ensures all data is properly backed-up to a secondary location following established procedures; restores backed-up data as required.
• Deploys, maintains, upgrades and removes software applications as required; codes script to automate, reprogram or modify existing or new programs; patches security vulnerabilities and adds/removes access; troubleshoots and modifies functionality, ensuring database integrity and availability.
• Participates in the control of access to District resources through virtual and physical security; maintains various firewall/access lists; uses approval processes to change existing or create new rules; creates security groups for file access.
• Provides on-call support for production servers, network systems and computing infrastructure as assigned.
• Leads and participates in various infrastructure-related projects.

OTHER DUTIES

• Maintains up-to-date technical knowledge in order to carry out assigned responsibilities effectively.
• Attends various meetings and serves on committees as required.
  Demonstrates sensitivity to and understanding of diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty and staff.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

• Understanding of, and sensitivity to, the diverse academic, socio-economic, ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, disability, and sexual orientation, of community college students, faculty and staff AND
• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in management information systems, information technology, computer science or a closely related field AND at least three (3) years of enterprise server infrastructure administration experience, including configuring, implementing and testing releases, upgrades or changes to operating systems, servers and related software OR
• An equivalent combination of training and experience.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Knowledge of:

• Operating system architectures, characteristics, components and commands applicable to enterprise information systems and multiple platform operating systems.
• Enterprise physical and virtual data center infrastructure.
• Data storage technology principles, practices, hardware, components and software including cloud and virtual technologies.
• Network architectures and theory and principles of network design and integration.
• Principles, practices and methods of systems/network administration and maintenance, including configuration, performance tuning and diagnostic tools.
• Principles and practices of disaster recovery including virtual and physical enterprise backup solutions.
• Smart classroom and computer lab design and support.
• Database management systems and software, including architectures, diagnostic tools, commands and utilities.
• Tools and utilities used in monitoring and tuning system, database and application performance.
• Systems integration design concepts and practices.
• Systems security and capacity planning principles, methods and practices.
• Programming and scripting languages and utilities applicable to assigned responsibilities.
• Principles, practices, methods and techniques of project management as they apply to information technology projects.
• Applicable public and private information-related rules and regulations and standards.

Skills and Abilities to:

• Perform complex systems administration in a physical and virtual multi-platform and operating systems environment independently and with a high degree of understanding of interoperating and integration issues.
• Develop conceptual frameworks and apply state-of-the-art technology to the design and management of operating system and network infrastructures.
• Configure and verify high availability and virtualization on security appliances
• Integrate storage with virtual technologies.
• Manage multiple layered mail systems.
• Analyze and interpret data and statistics to identify trends, performance, usage and growth potential.
• Add, delete, manage and modify subscriber accounts.
• Establish and maintain project schedules and balance responsibilities for multiple activities to ensure timely, high-quality results.
• Perform advanced systems troubleshooting and tuning to resolve complex systems management, communication and interoperating problems.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Understand and follow written and oral instructions.
• Operate a computer and use standard business software.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all those encountered in the course of work.

LICENSES, CERTIFICATES, AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• A valid California driver's license or ability to access and use alternative transportation.

Additional Information
Application Process:

1. Complete the application with a minimum of three (3) professional references and answer all supplemental questions; provide detailed information to aid in determining the minimum qualification requirements have been met
2. Attach resume
3. (Encouraged but not required) Attach all unofficial transcripts for college coursework completed, if applicable, (copies, photos, and downloads are acceptable) displaying any degrees conferred . Foreign transcripts must be evaluated for U.S. equivalency at the applicant's expense - click here for more information.

Please note : All application materials must be received by 11:59 pm on the closing date indicated above.
Attention Applicants

Only completed applications with the above required documents will be reviewed by the committee. Application materials not required (including cover letters or letters of recommendation) for this position will not be reviewed. Remove personally identifiable information such as personal photos, social security number, birth date, age, and gender from your application materials. Expenses related to the recruitment process are the responsibility of the applicant. Cabrillo is unable to sponsor work visas. A position eligibility pool may be established in order to fill other full-time, part-time, or substitute assignments as needs arise.
Questions? Concerns? Please contact HR as Departments, Divisions, and Committee Members are unable to discuss active recruitments with potential candidates.
Selection Procedure

A search committee will review and invite applicants for an interview. Interviews will be in-person only at the Cabrillo College Aptos Campus Meeting the posted requirements does not guarantee an interview. A written performance exercise and/or presentation may be a part of the interview, and finalists may be invited to return for a second interview. All notifications will be via email, and can also be accessed through your application profile.

Conditions of Employment
Selected candidates given a conditional offer of employment are required to submit tuberculosis screening clearance results, proof of eligibility to work in the United States, and present their Social Security card upon hire (for payroll purposes). Cabrillo is an E-Verify employer.joinasdfasdf
EEO Statement

Cabrillo College is an equal opportunity employer and actively seeks a diverse pool of qualified applicants. The policy of the College is to encourage applications from all persons. No person shall be denied employment because of ethnicity or race, color, sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, religion, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, medical conditions, status or protected veteran status.
Accommodations

Persons with disabilities who require reasonable accommodation to complete the employment process must notify Human Resources at
Cabrillo College currently provides a benefit stipend contribution for medical, dental, life and long-term disability insurance for full-time employees and eligible dependents. Please note: Employees who work less than 1,040 hours per year are not eligible for benefits. More than part-time contracts will receive a pro rata benefit stipend based on the percentage of assignment.

Classified employees are required to join the California Public Employee's Retirement System (CalPERS) and as such contribute 8% of their monthly salary to CalPERS on a pre-tax basis. (For additional details you can visit the )

For more information related to benefits, please visit the Cabrillo College Human Resources webpage on our website.
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The principles of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) are core to Cabrillo's Mission. Please give a specific example of how you have supported an environment where differences are valued, encouraged, and supported.
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Describe your experience designing and maintaining server and storage infrastructure. What hardware and software platforms have you managed? Share an example of a complex environment or project you administered.
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Tell us about your practical experience managing identity and access platforms (Active Directory, Azure/Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta, Duo). Share an example of a project or challenge where you played a key role in improving authentication, authorization, or account lifecycle management?
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Describe your experience deploying and administering EDR solutions like Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), CrowdStrike, or SentinelOne; include key lessons learned, challenges you overcame, and insights gained from utilizing these tools.
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I understand and reconfirm my consent and authorization that if I am a final candidate for this position, Cabrillo College or its authorized agent(s) may conduct comprehensive, job-related background and/or reference checks, including job history, criminal history, identity check, and/or fingerprinting. This reconfirmation question and its answer are confidential and will not be seen by the Search and Selection Committee.

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