The University of Maryland Department of Geographical Sciences is among the worlds leading academic units dedicated towards tackling societys most pressing concerns Our internationally renowned experts bring satellite data processing and geospatial technologies to the forefront of scientific discovery Through our research and teaching our faculty staff and students advance cutting edge solutions for climate change biodiversity wildfire food security global health sustainability and poverty We are searching for a Senior Systems Engineer to help us design a path towards implementing new technologies to meet the Departments growing needs This position is a 12 month full time status This position offers excellent benefits including but not limited to health insurance a generous leave package from the first year accrued at 22 days annual leave 3 days personal leave amp 14 days sick leave retirement subsidy ORP Pension tuition remission and professional development opportunities The salary range for this position has been established from 120000 to 160000 per year depending on qualifications The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity experience education specialty and training This position has flexible work hours with the possibility of working two days a week from home GEOG promotes growth in individuals and a healthy work life balance within a collaborative culture Duties Sr Systems Engineer is responsible for the full life cycle management of the departments IT We are looking for someone to join our team and work with us to manage day to day IT issues in the department and help us strategically develop our IT services to meet the needs of our cutting edge research and teaching The candidate should have excellent problem solving communication and troubleshooting skills Gathering requirements and designing solutions to meet the research needs of the Department Creating solutions to meet the unique needs of research teams Manage the full life cycle of the departments IT Team Lead for a small team of System Administrators Ensure appropriate levels of security for the departments IT infrastructure Working with the Director of Administrative Services to develop and implement a chargeback model for IT services Creating maintaining and improving internal policies and documentation Interfacing with campus IT services to ensure the departments IT services are aligned with campus goals Existing Technologies Sr Systems Engineer is responsible for full life cycle management of the departments VMware VDI Web servers Hadoop clusters SFTP servers and database servers including designing and setting up distributed computing associated storage security patching and automation of configuration and deployment Experience with tools such as Puppet Redhat Satellite and Ansible is preferred The tasks will include provisioning new systems OS patches and managing backups and configuration states for our workstations clusters and servers You will also help us to troubleshoot existing systems ensuring system security maximum uptime and service stabilityFamiliarity in several of the following areas is strongly preferred VMWare Cloudera or open source Hadoop RedHat Enterprise Linux Satellite Server andor IPA services Windows 1011 and Windows Server 2019 or later macOS Ventura and Monterey 13x and 12x or later Apache httpd andor tomcat installation configuration tuning and maintenance Drupal various SQL database servers including MySQL MariaDB andor Postgres GeoServer ESRI ArcGIS services KVM libvirt Ethernet network installation configuration and management including layer2 and layer3 in a serverdatacenter environment