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Job Offer: Applications Administrator:Job description:
Applications AdministratorApplications AdministratorAbout University at Albany: Established in 1844 and designated a University Center of the State University of New York in 1962, the University at Albany's broad mission of excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, research, and public service engages a diverse student body of more than 17,000 students in nine schools and colleges across three campuses. Located in Albany, New York, New York State's capital, the University is convenient to Boston, New York City, and the Adirondacks. Listing description Information Technology Services (ITS), the central IT provider at the University at Albany, seeks candidates for an Applications Administrator to support the academic, research, and business needs of this R1 institution. The University's constantly evolving, and increasingly complex technical environment encompasses more than 250 applications, including the student information system supporting over 17,000 students. The prosperous candidate plays a key function in assuring that enterprise applications and systems are robust, secure, and compliant. They have a deep knowledge of how applications fit into the broader technical environment, are adept at working with both on-premises and cloud-located applications and are comfortable analyzing complex requirements to implement highly effective solutions. They ensure applications support a positive user practice and are compliant with industry standards and best practices. The Applications Administrator is a senior member of a team of IT professionals, a group with wide-ranging responsibilities who work closely to ensure the integration, interopercapability, and availcapability of campus technology resources. They enjoy collaborating with other technology professionals to provide solutions and have the technical skill to evaluate, implement, and maintain complex applications, to meet the evolving needs of a wide variety of disciplines and departments. They understand the importance of assessing functionality, performance, risk, and security. The Applications Administrator has intellectual curiosity, keen analytical skills, and quickly grasps new concepts. They are confident in their knowledge and capability to make recommendations on behalf of the University's enterprise application environment and work across ITS and business units to provide input and skills to a range of services. » Assure the delivery of robust, secure enterprise applications that meet all regulatory requirements, industry standards, and best practices. » Manage complex enterprise applications, including the University's student information system, assuring integration, interopercapability, and availcapability with other systems and services. » Lead efforts for application selection, installation, configuration, upgrade, performance tuning and maintenance, including the replacement of existing systems. » Play a key function in establishing internal controls for applications. » Collaborate across ITS teams to identify problems, devise creative solutions, and implement proposed recommendations. » Effectively translate business needs into technical solutions and evaluate new technologies by liaising between ITS and functional users. Provide consultation, and training for application users as needed. » Provide day-to-day operational ownership for assigned applications including documentation, standards, patching, upgrades, configuration management, continuous monitoring, and performance management. » Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain complex enterprise applications. » Monitor application performance and troubleshoot to ensure optimal performance and availcapability. » Develop, establish, and maintain documentation, standards, and controls for application administration procedures and processes. » Ensure application security by implementing and enforcing ITS standards, controls, security policies, and procedures. » Provide subject matter skills and technical support to service and project teams. » Assess emerging trends and technologies in application administration, by developing and following a professional development plan, regularly sharing knowledge with stakeholders, and recommending changes and improvements to the applications environment. Additional Responsibilities: » Be available to provide scheduled support and consultation outside university business hours, including occasional evenings, holidays, or weekends, within reasonable professional obligation and expectation. General Requirements: Minimum Qualifications required » A bachelor's degree from a college or university accredited by a U.S. Department of Education (DOE) or internationally recognized accrediting organization. » At least three (3) years of practice managing and administering enterprise applications in a Linux environment, including deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting applications. » practice with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and Go for automation. » practice with SQL in an Oracle Database environment. » candidates must demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills. » candidates must demonstrate an capability to develop inclusive and equitable relationships within our diverse campus community. » candidates must demonstrate an capability to support diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and belonging, relative to their function. Preferred Qualifications required » practice administering a PeopleSoft deployment with a comprehensive grasp of its architecture, security, and lifecycle management. » practice utilizing Ansible for the automation of application deployment and configuration within a Linux environment. » Familiarity with other application deployment and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker). » practice deploying and managing applications in cloud environments, including working knowledge of cloud services (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), cloud-located application scaling, and cloud infrastructure maintenance. » practice with centralized logging/log aggregation tools such as Splunk. Additional Information: Professional Rank and income Grade: Senior Programmer/Analyst, SL-4, $90,000-$100,000 The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, or Clery Act, mandates that all Title IV institutions, without exception, prepare, publish and distribute an Annual Security Report. This report consists of two basic parts: disclosure of the University's crime statistics for the past three years; and disclosures regarding the University's current campus security policies. The University at Albany's Annual Security Report is available in portable document format [PDF] by clicking this link Pursuant to NYS Labor Law 194-A, no State entity, as defined by the Law, is permitted to rely on, orally or in writing seek, request, or require in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current wage, or income history as a condition to be interviewed, or as a condition of continuing to be considered for an offer of employment, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation, and for the purpose of verifying information, may such requests be made. If such information has been requested from you before such time, Contact Us by the Governor's Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at Email address: info@goer.ny.gov. THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY IS AN EO/AA/IRCA/ADA EMPLOYER Please apply online via Application Instructions: candidates MUST submit the following documents: » Resume » Cover letter stating all the required minimum qualifications and any of the applicable preferred qualifications » List of 3 professional references with e-mail addresses and telephone numbers Special Note: ITS offers telecommuting on Tuesdays and Thursdays following a probationary period and with managery approval. Visa sponsorship is not available for this job offer. Note : After submitting your resume, the subsequent pages give you instructions for uploading additional documents (i.e. cover letter etc.). A review of applications will start on July 31, 2024, and the search will remain open until the position is filled Skills:
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