Network Administrator II

Minimum Hiring Annual Salary:

$77,237.00 – $83,416.00. To attain the maximum annual salary, employee must meet all minimum qualifications plus:

• 5 years of additional applicable work experience and/or degrees higher than the minimum qualification degree. Degrees higher than the minimum qualification degree can be used in combination with additional work experience.
• A combination of related education, on-the-job work experience, certifications and/or licenses that results in a candidate successfully meeting the minimum qualifications of the position may be considered.

• Benefits are effective immediately
• 100% employer provided medical & dental coverage employees (employee only option)
• 85% employer provided medical & dental coverage for employee's spouse and/or family
• Voluntary vision insurance
• Staff Annual Leave (minimum accrual of 15 days) & Sick (minimum accrual of 12 days)
• 17 paid holidays and 3 personal days each year
• Summer schedule: 4-day work week – Fridays Off
• Employer paid long-term disability and life insurance premiums
• Tuition waiver & reimbursement for employees
• Tuition waiver for dependents
• PERA employer (see https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). for comprehensive benefits)
• Additional supplemental benefits & retirement programs available
• Access to the PERC (Aims gym) for employee & one guest
• Free parking on all campuses

Aims Community College actively supports an environment that embraces the College's Mission, Vision, Values and a culture of innovation and care. The College embraces and seeks to hire individuals who want to be a part of this environment and have the skill sets necessary to be successful in this position. The NIC team consists of five network and systems administrators and a team director who reports to the CIO/AVP.

This team highly values collaboration. Two team members (including this position) focus primarily on network design, performance, troubleshooting and maintenance. The other three team members focus primarily on systems administration for many applications, as well as server management. We support multiple campuses and our own primary and secondary datacenters. We rotate on-call duties through the team, usually about one week per month per team member.

We work the usual business hours but do have systems maintenance days and other maintenance days where we work non-business hours. We use Palo Alto firewalls, Extreme switches, and Aruba wireless controllers and access points. We use Clear Pass as a network access control solution. Our systems include: VMware/Hyper‑V and SANs – we are about 95% virtualized, Dell hardware (hosts/servers, storage), Windows and Linux servers, Avaya Cloud Office telecom, Team Dynamix ESM, and Veeam backup and replication.

Other IT teams reporting to the CIO/AVP at Aims include IT Service Center, Enterprise Services, and Cybersecurity.

• Install, maintain, and enhance the College network infrastructure for both wired and wireless:
  Monitor functionality, troubleshoot, or upgrade as necessary.
• Responsible for Windows and Linux network configuration. System diagnostics and troubleshooting, including analysis of ongoing performance, system slowdowns, and bottlenecks.
• Monitoring and health of day-to-day operations of networks, servers, systems, and all other mission‑critical IT systems, as well as vulnerability patch management.
• Check all monitoring systems for issues daily. Create tickets and resolve issues as needed.
• Product research, AP and switch configurations, hypervisor network configurations, device builds and implementations, lift, install, and move servers and devices in the datacenter and other sites as needed.

• Research, propose, and implement IT‑based solutions for Aims.

• Solve issues with hardware, software, network function, and telecommunications for any and all systems used at Aims.
• Assist peers in IT in solving problems/troubleshooting.

• Install, configure, and perform maintenance on IT hardware (servers, network equipment,…