System Administrator I - CIPM

🇺🇸 Raleigh, NC 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ July 2nd, 2026

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NC State University is hiring a System Administrator I for the Center for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM). The role involves supporting system administration, infrastructure security, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and compliance activities for the CIPM datacenter and federally supported application hosting infrastructure operating under a FISMA Moderate authorization boundary.

Highlights

Manage and monitor Linux and Windows server environments for CIPM-hosted systems and applications.
Coordinate infrastructure updates, system maintenance, and operational changes with adherence to change-management and compliance processes.
Troubleshoot server, authentication, and operational issues across hosted environments and support backup and recovery activities.
Support infrastructure security, vulnerability scanning, remediation tracking, patch validation, and continuous monitoring aligned with FISMA Moderate standards.
Maintain System Security Plans, audit documentation, and compliance artifacts; assist with remediation tracking and Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&M).
Support identity and access governance including privileged access reviews, account lifecycle management, multi-factor authentication.
Collaborate with developers and technical staff to ensure secure deployment and operation of hosted applications.
Minimum qualifications: Master’s degree in computer science, IT, cybersecurity, engineering, or related field plus at least two years of relevant professional or applied experience.
Preferred experience includes working with regulatory frameworks like FISMA, NIST, RMF; cloud platforms such as AWS; virtualization and automation technologies.
Department: Integrated Pest Management - Research, serving USDA, EPA, and international agricultural agencies.