Salary Range P24: $61,416.68-$67,143.90

*NOTE: Salaries for internal candidates are determined by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission's formula.

This is a full-time, Classified, CWA position, and hours of work and days are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 pm. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand. Note: This position is in the “NL” category of employment (non-fixed work week). It is the policy of the College to grant hour for hour compensatory time off, only when employees are required to work on a regularly scheduled day off. For those with Monday through Friday schedules, this means a Saturday, Sunday or Holiday.

RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY:

Mission: Ramapo College of New Jersey is New Jersey's Public Liberal Arts College, dedicated to providing students a strong foundation for a lifetime of achievement. The College is committed to academic excellence through interdisciplinary and experiential learning, and international and intercultural understanding. Ramapo College emphasizes teaching and individual attention to all students. We promote diversity, inclusiveness, sustainability, student engagement, and community involvement.

Established in 1969, Ramapo College of New Jersey has an enrollment of 5,000 students and offers bachelor's degrees in the arts, business, humanities, social sciences and the sciences, as well as in professional studies, which include nursing and social work. In addition, Ramapo College offers courses leading to teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels. The College also offers eight graduate programs as well as articulated programs with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New York Chiropractic College, New York University College of Dentistry, SUNY State College of Optometry and New York College of Podiatric Medicine. The College is ranked as fifth in the Best Regional Public Universities North category by U.S. News & World Report.

Undergraduate students choose to concentrate their studies in one of five schools with more than 539 course offerings and 36 academic programs. Ramapo College boasts an average student/faculty ratio of 18:1 and average class size of 23, affording students the opportunity to develop close ties to the College's exceptional faculty.

Job Summary:

The Linux Systems Administrator is responsible for monitoring and maintaining the high availability production and test environments of the college. Must be a self-starter, work independently as well as with a diverse technical team, and take ownership. Provides tier 2 operations support which includes identifying, resolving or escalating hardware and/or software issues that span multiple technology domains; primarily focused on supporting the Linux computing platform.This is a high visibility position in the technology group.

Duties
• Install new/rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements
• Install and configure systems which support infrastructure and application development staff.
• Administers systems by actively managing patching, routine maintenance and backups to include the scheduling and execution of related tasks.
• Identifies, diagnoses and resolves system alerts and time sensitive events that could impact system availability leveraging an escalation path when appropriate.
• Responds to system failures and works with support or vendor teams to minimize business impact.
• Engineering of systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs.
• Participates in all meetings related to change, incident or problem management
• Identifies performance issues and trends impacting system availability or expected behavior and work to incorporate them into the problem management process.
• Develop, maintain and document installation and configuration procedures.
• Contribute to and maintain system standards.
• Contribute to and maintain security posture of the system in accordance to IT Security Policies and industry best practices.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage resources
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.