System Administrator II

Requisition Details

GENERAL REQUISITION INFORMATION


EEO Statement:


UNMC is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, including an equal opportunity employer of protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Location
Omaha, NE


Requisition Number:
Staff_14395


Department
Research Information Technology Ofc 50001213


Business Unit
Vice Chancellor for Research


Reg-Temp
Full-Time Regular


Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 5:00PM; some evenings & weekends may be required


Remote/Telecommuting
Hybrid (part-time working on site, part-time working off-site)


Position Summary


Responsible for the upkeep, configuration, and reliable operation of computer servers and their installed application software. Ensures that the uptime, performance, resources, and security of those computers meets the needs of the users, while complying with applicable policies. Expected to perform some essential IT duties outside regular office hours if needed.

Position Details

Additional Information

Posting Category
Operations


Working Title
System Administrator II


Job Title
Information Technology Specialist


Salary Grade
IT24S


Appointment Type
B1 - REG MGR PROF SALARY


Salary Range
$75,400 - $113,100/annual


Job Requisition Begin Date
01/20/2026


Application Review Date
02/02/2026


Review Date Information:


Initial application review will begin on the date provided in the field above. Applications received prior to this review date will be considered. Applications received after the review date may be considered.

Required and Preferred Qualifications


Required Education:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent


If any degree major/training is required, please specify the type. (NOTE: Concentration and minors are not equivalent to a major)


Computer Science or related field

(Will consider eight years related education/experience)

Required Experience
4 years


If any experience is required, please specify what kind of experience:


UNIX systems administration, as a central and daily focus, with emphasis on shell or Python scripting.

(Will consider eight years related education/experience)

Required License
No


If yes, what is the required licensure/certification?

Required Computer Applications:
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Not Applicable


Required Other Computer Applications:
Sudo, SSH, sftp.


Required Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Able to perform some job functions in situations where Internet connectivity is not available;Able to work independently;
• Thorough understanding of UNIX access controls and process model; SSH and SFTP with public key authentication;
• Revision control workflows (git, subversion, etc.);
• Bourne shell (sh, bash, zsh) scripting and using standard UNIX utilities to build pipelines for ad-hoc tasks.

Preferred Education:
Bachelor's degree


If any degree/training is preferred, please specify the type:


AWS Training

Preferred Experience:


Working experience with UNMC research IT infrastructure, working with UNMC research community on providing technical solutions.

Windows Server administration; hypervisor administration; relational database administration; containerization; basic web application development.

Preferred License:
Yes


If yes, what is the preferred licensure/certification?:


AWS training and certification

Preferred Computer Applications:
Microsoft Outlook


Preferred Other Computer Applications:
VMware Workstation, VirtualBox or virt-manager; VMware vCenter or similar; Rsync, Rclone, Globus; vsCode, Xcode, Visual Studio or other IDE; Jupyter Notebook; git, subversion


Preferred Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Windows Server administration; Web application and database deployments in Linux platforms. Active Directory and management of Windows networks;
• Data transfer over networks; Virtualization with VMware/Proxmox, Microsoft Hyper-V; SQL; Basic database administration of databases such as Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server; Network file systems including NFS, SMB/CIFS; Basic application development using computer languages such as PHP, Python, Perl, C, C++;
• Basic web development using technologies such as HTML5, CSS, PHP, Python.

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