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Virginia Tech

System Administrator

🇺🇸 Blacksburg, VA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $54K

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ December 24th, 2025

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Virginia Tech is hiring a System Administrator for the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. The role involves administering and maintaining endpoint management platforms like Jamf, Intune, and BigFix, along with Active Directory and College servers, ensuring security compliance and system stability. The System Administrator collaborates with IT management to deploy updates, perform patching, and maintain technology systems that meet Virginia Tech's security standards.

Highlights
  • Administer and maintain endpoint management platforms: Jamf, Intune, BigFix.
  • Manage Active Directory, identity-protection tools, and College servers including HIPAA-related systems.
  • Perform system deployments, security updates, OS and application patching, and server configuration.
  • Collaborate with CLAHS CTO and IT staff to support a stable and secure technology environment.
  • Required technical skills: experience with Jamf, Microsoft Intune, BigFix, Active Directory/Azure AD, SQL Server administration, scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
  • Preferred skills: Titanium Schedule or similar SQL applications, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 administration, Spirion or identity-protection tools, automation tools (Power Automate, Power BI), virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), endpoint backup systems.
  • Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent experience.
  • Salary commensurate with experience, minimum $54,000, Pay Band 4, Non-exempt status with eligibility for overtime.
  • Regular full-time appointment, 40 hours per week.
  • Criminal conviction check required.

System Administrator Full Description

Job Description
The College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences is seeking a motivated System Administrator to support secure, compliant, and well-managed technology systems across the College. This position administers and maintains the College’s endpoint management platforms—Jamf, Intune, and BigFix—as well as Active Directory, identity-protection tools, and College servers, including HIPAA-related systems.

The System Administrator plays a key role in system deployments, security updates, OS and application patching, server configuration and maintenance, and ensuring devices meet Virginia Tech’s Minimum Security Standards.

This role collaborates closely with the CLAHS CTO and IT management and staff to test, deploy, and maintain updates, policies, and services that support a stable technology environment.

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent education and/or experience.
• Foundational knowledge or coursework related to system administration, server technologies, and endpoint management preferably in an academic or research environment.
• Experience with Jamf, Microsoft Intune, BigFix, Active Directory / Azure AD, SQL Server administration and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

Preferred Qualifications
• Working knowledge of Titanium Schedule or similar SQL-based applications, server setup, configuration, backups, and maintenance (Windows or Linux)
• Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 administration
• Experience with Spirion or other identity-protection tools, understanding of enterprise system administration best practices for patching, configuration, and security. 
• Experience with automation or reporting tools such as Power Automate, Power BI, or relevant tooling.
• Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
• Experience with enterprise endpoint backup systems.
• Relevant certifications, including but not limited to Jamf 100, Jamf 200, MD-102: Microsoft Endpoint Administrator Associate, MTA Windows Server Administration Fundamentals, MTA Security Fundamentals.

Pay Band
4
Overtime Status
Non-Exempt: Eligible for overtime
Appointment Type
Regular
Salary Information
Commensurate with experience, min. $54,000
Hours per week
40
Review Date
1/12/2026

Additional Information
The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.
 
About Virginia Tech
Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. A comprehensive land-grant institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world, Virginia Tech is an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a veterinary medicine college, Graduate School, and Honors College. The university has a significant presence across Virginia, including Blacksburg, the greater Washington, D.C. area, the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, sites in Newport News and Richmond, and numerous Extension offices and research institutes. A leading global research institution, Virginia Tech conducts more than $650 million in research annually.
Virginia Tech endorses and encourages participation in professional development opportunities and university shared governance.  These valuable contributions to university shared governance provide important representation and perspective, along with opportunities for unique and impactful professional development.

Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, ethnicity or national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or military status, or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law.
If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact Branden King at brandenk@vt.edu during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.

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