System Administrator

🇺🇸 Hybrid - New Brunswick, NJ 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $82K - $125K 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ June 18th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Rutgers University is hiring a System Administrator. The role involves managing and safeguarding Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support (OIRDS) applications, ensuring their availability, integrity, and security. The System Administrator performs system monitoring, implements updates, develops secure applications, and provides support to faculty and staff while maintaining compliance with institutional policies.

Highlights

Manage OIRDS applications with operational oversight and apply compliant security controls.

Continuously monitor applications and scripts to optimize system performance across servers.

Maintain and upgrade server software and hardware hosting OIRDS applications.

Develop secure stored procedures and application code for compatibility across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Research emerging technologies to enhance application performance, security, and scalability.

Design and implement system enhancements, access controls, checkpoints, and logging features.

Program secure communication protocols including public/private key encryption.

Provide responsive support to faculty and staff, resolving incidents within set targets.

Required skills include programming languages (C, C++, JavaScript, Python, R, MATLAB, etc.), databases (SQL, Oracle, MongoDB), and tools like Power BI, TensorFlow, Docker, Jenkins, and REST API.

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 2+ years IT infrastructure experience; Master’s degree and higher education experience preferred.