"Systems Administrator"

Job Details

Posting Number: PG194231EP

Internal Recruitment: No

Working Title: Systems Administrator

Anticipated Hiring Range: $100,000 - $115,000

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8 am - 5 pm

Job Location: Raleigh, North Carolina

Department: Shared Services (OIT)

About the Department:

• The Office of Information Technology provides central IT services to the University. OIT staff is committed to providing the best possible IT systems and services for the students, faculty and affiliates of NC State.
• OIT Vision: Be the IT organization people seek out as a partner for providing visionary strategies, creative solutions, objective information, and effective and efficient services in order to help them achieve their mission and goals.
• OIT Mission: To provide nimble, effective, efficient and collaborative IT services, solutions and strategies in a timely and helpful manner that assists the university, state and nation in achieving their strategic goals.

Essential Job Duties:

This position serves as a Microsoft Systems Administrator for NC State University’s critical, campus level Azure/Entra, JAMF/Apple School Manager based enterprise infrastructure services.

• Provide critical, campus level Microsoft Entra ID expertise, including, but limited to: Understanding, and permissioning Entra enterprise and Single Sign On (SSO) apps appropriately. Properly/appropriately assign permissions to various Azure resources, such as subscriptions, Administrative Units, resource groups, Fabric domains and workgroups.
• Provide critical, campus level Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform in Microsoft Azure. To apply security baselines across various Azure subscriptions using IaC. To support application environments (e.g., SAS Viya) deployed with IaC in a secure, scalable manner.
• Provide critical, campus level Apple endpoint support using JAMF and Apple School Manager (ASM). To support managing the various JAMF sites NC State has; to communicate to campus various vendor communications, such as upgrades, outages, and changes in the service. To open support tickets with JAMF if/when issues arise. To provide application packaging for Mac. To be a liaison to other Universities in the North Carolina higher education system.
• Provide Active Directory/group policy/Organizational Unit administration expertise in a highly delegated environment.

Other Responsibilities:

• Serve in an on-call rotation schedule.
• Create and update project and task documentation ongoing to management.
• Respond to and manage campus support requests from customers in a timely manner with status updates within the support ticketing system.

Minimum Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree with at least two years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training and relevant experience.

Other Required Qualifications:

• System administration experience with Entra ID / Azure / Microsoft 365 environments. Configuring Azure cloud resources for both IaaS and PaaS.
• Knowledge of endpoint management suites, e.g., JAMF, Config Manager, and Entra/Intune.
• Experience with system administration for a large-scale Windows and Active Directory infrastructure, group policy, LDAP, Kerberos. (~1,000+ users).
• Working knowledge of networking, including IP routing, subnetting and firewall rule definitions.
• Knowledge of and experience with security best practices and technologies.
• Experience scripting system administration tasks in PowerShell.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Github code management
• Terraform Development Experience
• Managing cloud infrastructure environments with IaC
• Apple Mac & Linux administration experience

Required License(s) or Certification(s): N/A

Valid NC Driver's License required: No

Commercial Driver's License required: No

Job Open Date: 09/15/2025

Anticipated Close Date: Open Until Filled

Special Instructions to Applicants: Please include as attachments a resume/CV and contact information for at least 3 professional references.

Position Number: 00060462

Position Type: EPS/SAAO

Full Time Equivalent (FTE) (1.0 = 40 hours/week): 1.00

Appointment: 12 Month Recurring

Mandatory Designation - Adverse Weather: Mandatory - Adverse Weather

Mandatory Designation - Emergency Events: Mandatory - Evacuations/Natural Hazards, Non Mandatory - Emergency Event

Department ID: 517101 - Shared Services