Network Administrator, 100% travel, no relocation required

ABOUT OUR COMPANY:     SunGard Higher Education helps colleges and universities run the business of higher education. Institutions come to us for expert advice, software, and services for everything from their registration systems to electronic portfolios to the technology needed to support today?s modern students. Our goal is to bring together the people and technology needed to create a Unified Digital Campus for each of our customers. What is a Unified Digital Campus? It can be many different things, but the common thread for each of our customers is easy and fast access to personal and community information for all its members. It is a flexible environment for learning, teaching, research, and administration. With these goals in mind, our employees deliver customer support, professional services, software development, and technology management. We bring the future to today?s colleges and universities so they can cultivate tomorrow?s great leaders, thinkers, inventors, and citizens.
 
We are proud to be a business that shapes the future through higher education. Our employees are dedicated to our company and our customers because what we do truly makes a difference in the world. We invite you to learn how you can work for a global, innovative company that believes in career and personal development, recognizes personal accomplishment, supports employees? lifestyles, and offers competitive pay and benefits. We have a wide variety of technical, support, sales, marketing, and management positions throughout the United States and worldwide.

 

THIS POSITION REQUIRES EXTENSIVE (100%) TRAVEL BUT IT DOESN?T REQUIRE RELOCATION. CANDIDATES CAN LIVE IN DENVER, PHOENIX, LAS VEGAS OR SALT LAKE CITY.

 

ABOUT THIS POSITION: 

 

Technical Requirements: 
EXPERIENCE IMPLEMENTING EXCHANGE AND ACTIVE DIRECTORY IS A MUST.
EXTENSIVE hands-on experience with MS Active Directory, Exchange Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003.
Seven (7) years experience with LANs/WANS, network design and administration.
High level of understanding of network and server fundamentals including services, topologies, and security concepts such as firewalls, secure shell; strong knowledge of network communications (TCP/IP, Layer 2/3 devices, addressing, VLANs, routing, Internet)

 

Managerial Requirements: 
Three (3) years in a supervisory role
Ability to clearly communicate technical issues both in oral and written formats
Proven ability to develop network-related plans and documentation

 

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Strong network design, project planning and implementation skills, to include troubleshooting, administration, and capacity planning ? hands on configuration ability with a major vendor?s (Cisco, Foundry, Avaya, etc.) product (switch, router, firewall, etc.)
Be able to install, patch and configure either a Microsoft Server Class OS or a Linux / Unix Server class OS.
Network security expertise to include vulnerability assessments and tools required.
Strong people and project management skills to include customer interface and presentation, proposal generation, personnel management.
Hands-on VoIP technologies and Voice Telecommunications skills.
Network security audits and vulnerability assessments.
Working knowledge of backup software, tape rotation planning, and restore procedures.
Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity planning and implementation.
Extensive experience with Exchange, GroupWise, iPlanet, or Sendmail.

 

EDUCATION REQUIRED
Bachelor?s Degree from a regionally accredited four-year college or university
MCSE 2000 or 2003

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Candidate will provide technical project leadership, senior networking expertise, and technical management for key clients and regional staff with services such as: network design, Internet connectivity, security analysis/design and implementation, network management, definition and coordination of standards, project and personnel management, technology research, and network documentation, including, but not limited to, the creation of detailed diagrams using such programs as Microsoft Visio? or other network diagramming software.  Candidate will provide project management, temporary staff management, and serve as an escalation resource for network issues.  This position will work in our Technical Services Division (TSD) and report to the Director of Network Services.  The position requires 80-100% travel to key sites within our nationwide customer base.

 

 

BENEFITS  

SunGard Higher Education offers an excellent comprehensive benefits package which includes: 401K, 3-weeks vacation 1st year of employment, paid holidays/sick days, Medical/Dental/Vision, Life Insurance/Long Term Coverage, Tuition Reimbursement. SunGard Higher Education is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

TO APPLY:

Please e-mail resume INCLUDING SALARY REQUIREMENTS to: