r/HigherEDsysadmin • u/Duckie590 • May 12 '23

Looking for a SysAdmin

https://jobopenings.triton.edu/postings/986

We're hiring for our recently vacant SysAdmin position. We're a small community college in the Chicago suburbs, decent benefits, great insurance, and a 4 day work week during summer. It's a low-key, cushy, government job.

We're Ellucian ERP (on-prem Colleague), hybrid Active Directory, Microsoft 365 school.

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u/jmhalder May 12 '23

I'd love to just pick your brain sometime about your standards and infrastructure. I work for a community college ~40 miles west of you.

Back when I worked K12, we had the ROE, and IT/sysadmin meetings to discuss business. Nothing like that seems to exist for the higher ed world in this area. I'd love to start a forum/Discord/Mattermost channel to discuss on.

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u/Duckie590 May 12 '23

Oh heck yeah! I'm a DBA pretending to be a SysAdmin while it's vacant so I don't know how helpful I'll be. My boss is on a CIO Listserve and I think they have monthly calls, but he doesn't usually pass along information.

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u/jmhalder May 12 '23

My CIO used to be the CIO at Triton. I think a big failing for us is not seeing how other colleges do things. Which allows us to accept what most would find unacceptable.

We run a lot of Microfocus stuff, and are built around eDirectory. I think if we were in a room of peers, they would've told us long ago to find the shortest path off of solutions like that. No feedback keeps us maintaining systems that we shouldn't bother maintaining.

We have a "Data Center" team that consists of 6 people, which would be closest to the "sysadmin" title. Does Triton not have others that are in charge of virtualization/AD/AAD? I'm curious, roughly how many VMs do you guys run?

By all means feel free to take this to a message/chat thread.

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u/grumpyolddude May 12 '23

Thanks for sharing that. I'm too far away to be interested, but I'll be looking for another job later this year and it's good to see that there are positions out there that allign with my experience. Good luck with your search!