Systems Engineer

UITS PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGY INST (UA-DPTI-IUBLA)

At University Information Technology Services (UITS) we provide the technology, tools, and services you need to succeed. UITS supports IU's vision for excellence in research, teaching, outreach, and lifelong learning. We ensure a workplace that encourages growth, flexibility, and creativity, as well as a culture that champions inclusion, diversity, and overall employee well-being through programs supported university wide. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

This position will be homed in the HathiTrust Researcher Center within the Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) at IU. PTI is an innovative collaboration of the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology, the IU Maurer School of Law, the Luddy School of Informatics and Computing, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Kelley School of Business. We ensure a workplace that encourages growth, flexibility, and creativity, as well as a culture that champions inclusion, diversity, and overall employee well-being through programs supported university wide. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

• Designs, develops, and implements advanced systems that adhere to university policies and standards; evaluates, monitors, and assesses current systems to design and develop system updates/modifications and/or to resolve issues; provides a senior point of escalation in regard to complex and difficult system performance issues.
• Makes recommendations to improve, as well as provides, bug reporting and identification, test case authoring and refinement, automation scripts, and works closely with other technical teams to resolve highly complex and difficult problems; reviews work and often provides guidance to junior peers.
• Leads in establishing metrics and determining systems configuration(s) to ensure optimum performance and security in accordance with strategy and operational goals; analyzes capacity data and leads in the development of capacity plans.
• Ensures proper documentation of systems infrastructure design decisions, issues/resolutions, as well as leads service disaster recovery planning.
• Collaborates with systems professionals on other teams and across the university to analyze/evaluate new capabilities and emerging technologies that could improve university systems performance.
• Researches and stays abreast of current higher education systems engineering trends; stays up-to-date and makes recommendations to improve systems engineering best practices, tools, and approaches.
• May serve as project leader; often provides guidance to junior peers.
  
  

Combinations of related education and experience may be considered. Education beyond the minimum required may be substituted for work experience. Work experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted for education.

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor's degree (preferably in computer science or related field)
  
  

Required

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 5 years of systems engineering or related experience
  
  

Skills

Required

• Proficient communication skills
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism
• Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty
• Highly thorough and dependable
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
• Possesses a high degree of initiative
• Ability to influence internal and/or external constituents
  
  

This role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment. The position involves sedentary work as well as periods of time moving around an office environment and the campus. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.

Bloomington, Indiana or Indianapolis, Indiana

This position is eligible for remote work, subject to change in the future based on university policy and business needs.

For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:

• Multiple plan options for medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Health Savings Account with generous IU contribution
• Life insurance, LTD, and AD&D options
• Base retirement plan contribution from IU, subject to vesting
• Additional supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition benefit for IU classes
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  
  

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing our online Benefits Brochure.

Career Level: Advanced

FLSA: Exempt

Job Function: Information Technology

Job Family: Sys Admin, Engineer & Program

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