Senior Systems Administrator

4 weeks ago


La Jolla, California, United States Salk Institute Full time
Job Summary

The Salk Institute seeks a highly skilled Senior Systems Administrator to oversee technology infrastructure for research laboratories, administrative systems, and core technology services. This role involves managing physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure, supporting critical IT systems, and offering consulting services for diverse computing environments.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide ongoing support for IT systems, troubleshooting issues, performing maintenance, and monitoring performance to ensure smooth business operations.
  • Install and configure operating systems across various devices, ensuring security and optimal performance through patches and updates.
  • Research and propose innovative IT solutions, offering consulting services to meet organizational needs.
  • Lead complex system design and implementation projects, collaborating with senior management and ensuring alignment with business goals.
  • Coordinate IT projects, manage logistics, and liaise with support staff for hardware and software implementations.
  • Oversee server and client backup operations, ensuring data integrity and compliance with data protection policies.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree (BA) from a four-year college or university in computer science or other engineering field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Minimum of five to seven years of related experience and/or training.
  • Minimum of seven years' experience managing enterprise-class compute and storage hardware, including SAN and NAS solutions.
  • Minimum of seven years of *NIX operating systems administration experience in an enterprise client-server environment.
  • Experience managing a virtualization platform infrastructure in an enterprise environment.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Ten years' experience managing enterprise-class compute and storage hardware.
  • Five years managing RHEL / CentOS workloads in large client-server enterprise environments.
  • Five years of implementation and operations of complex IT solutions.
  • Five years managing VMware ESXi and vSphere virtualization platforms.
  • Experience with cloud storage and compute platforms.
  • Experience in an IT support role working with researchers in an academic or commercial environment.
What We Offer

The expected pay range for this position is $110,000 to $130,000 per annum.

The Salk Institute provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the institute reasonably expects to pay for a position.

The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, department budget availability, internal equity, geographic location, and external market pay for comparable jobs.

Benefits

The Salk Institute offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, patient advocacy services, and transit/parking program.

Salk Values

The Salk Community, both scientists and administrators, worked together to define values that we believe support Salk's pursuit of excellence.

To be truly the best scientific institution requires not only incredible discoveries, but a common understanding of how we should work together to enable those discoveries.

The acronym 'I CARE' provides a simple way to remember each of the values and reminds each of us of the importance of what we do each day.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal access to opportunities for students, employees, applicants for employment and other visitors.

Salk has also adopted and maintains a policy to encourage professional and respectful workplace behavior and prevent discriminatory and harassing conduct in our workplace.

Accordingly, the Institute prohibits harassment and discrimination in employment on the basis of, and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to, actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status (disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era, other covered veteran status), political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law.



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