Systems Analyst II - Chris Ward

JOB DESCRIPTION

Updated: May 2010

Duties

Primary responsibilities consist of the installation, maintenance and problem tracking of the Department's UNIX servers, including the Calclab machines; installs software and provides systems backup for all systems; design and implementation of databases using PostgreSQL and MySQL; maintenance of the Department's Windows Terminal Services systems. Evaluation of operating sytem software (Linux) and planning upgrades of the Department's desktop systems and servers. Maintains World Wide Web and feature implementation; performs PC diagnostics and miscellaneous programming tasks for department support. Responsible for developing and maintaining complex scripts for web, computer account management, backups, and other system tasks.

Responsibilities

The Systems Analyst shall have the authority and responsibility for making mid-level IT operations decisions, examples of which include: hardware and software acquisitions under $1000, non-critical changes to software and application configuration.

Supervision

Received:

General instruction from the Senior Systems Analyst.

Given:

General instruction to the Systems Analyst I and Student Technicians.

Education

Required:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of training and experience (one year of experience may substitute for one year of education).

Preferred:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in mathematics, computer science, engineering or related field.

Experience

Required:

3 years job related experience in programming, networking, systems analysis, or software engineering. Must be a Unix systems administrator. Programming experience in Bourne shell, C, and Perl. Strong written and verbal skills. Requires ability to multi-task and work cooperatively with others. Programming experience in sed and awk. SQL programming for PostgreSQL and MySQL.

Preferred:

Programming experience in sed and awk. SQL programming for PostgreSQL and MySQL.