Rochester Institute of Technology is hiring: Cybersecurity Systems Administrator

Cybersecurity Systems Administrator – Rochester Institute of Technology

Lead role in the analysis, evaluation, design, testing, configuration, implementation, monitoring, reporting, maintenance, and support of major complex enterprise security solutions for the operations of the Golisano College of Computing & Information Sciences.

Job Responsibilities

The Cybersecurity Systems Administrator is responsible for planning and implementing various technologies to support academic and research activities for the college. The position requires the ability to research technologies, troubleshoot systems and networks for software, hardware, and security related issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Investigates security of services and applications, utilizing expertise in communications and network security, identity and access management, client-side, server-side, databases, and application development.
• Performs the analysis, evaluation, design, testing, configuration, installation, implementation, administration, monitoring, reporting, maintenance, and support of complicated enterprise security solutions and frameworks.
• Leads operational aspects of security incident response, troubleshooting, support, and root cause analysis.
• Collaborates to develop strategic technical security direction for the college.
• Supports the college's academic mission through client administration, server and data storage administration, and network administration.
• Supports the college's research mission by advising faculty researchers on equipment purchases, research project technology needs and support, and RIT policy compliance.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 3 years minimum experience working with medium-large IT environments

Required Minimum Education Level

Bachelor’s or equivalent experience

Skills

• Communications - ability to effectively communicate information about highly technical solutions, situations, and terminology in a way that will be easily understood by customers, team members, management, and nontechnical people
• Customer Focus - ability to establish and maintain productive relationships with customers
• Flexibility/adaptability - ability and willingness to change direction/priority and focus to meet changing organizational and business needs.
• Continuous improvement - Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to improve the quality of service to internal customers
• Technical expertise to carry out the major responsibilities listed above
• Ability to work closely with a team or independently to deliver expected results
• Tactical ability - identify and lead strategic objectives and drive results through effective actions

Work Location

Hybrid – Remote/On-campus

Wage Band

121A

FLSA Category

Exempt

Employment Category

Fulltime

Required Application Documents

Cover Letter, Curriculum Vitae or Resume, List of References

Department/College Description

The Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences prepares students to improve lives and change the world through computing; GCCIS is home to the departments of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, School of Information, and the School of Interactive Games and Media. The college's PhD program in Computer and Information Sciences is ranked 56th by CSRankings.org. The college has over 140 full‑time faculty, 3,900 undergraduate students, and 1,100 graduate students. RIT is an interdisciplinary research hub, with research groups and communities encompassing a range of domain areas, including the Global Cybersecurity Institute (https://rit.edu/cybersecurity), the Center for Human‑Aware Artificial Intelligence (https://rit.edu/chai), RIT's Personalized Healthcare Technology initiative (https://www.rit.edu/pht180/), the Center for Accessibility and Inclusion Research (https://cair.rit.edu), the Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning and Evaluation (https://rit.edu/castle/), the Media Arts Games Interaction Creativity (MAGIC) Center (https://magic.rit.edu), the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (https://ccrg.rit.edu/), and the Golisano Institute for Sustainability (https://rit.edu/sustainabilityinstitute/).

How To Apply

In order to be considered for this position, you must apply for it at: http://careers.rit.edu/staff. Click the link for search openings and in the keyword search field; enter the title of the position or the BR number.

Additional Details

In compliance with NYS's Pay Transparency Act, the salary range for this position is listed above. Rochester Institute of Technology considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. The hiring process for this position may require a criminal background check and/or motor vehicle records check. Any verbal or written offer made is contingent on satisfactory results, as determined by Human Resources. RIT provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, age, marital status, sex, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, veteran status, or disability in its hiring, admissions, educational programs and activities. RIT provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities under the Rehabilitation Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the New York Human Rights Law, or similar applicable law. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please contact the Human Resources office at 585‑475‑2424 or email your request to hr@rit.edu. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case‑by‑case basis.

Hourly/Salary Minimum

68800

Hourly/Salary Maximum

115200

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Information Technology

Industry

Higher Education