Systems Administrator Senior (PeopleSoft)

🇺🇸 Houston, Texas 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ October 18th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Houston City College is hiring a Systems Administrator Senior (PeopleSoft) at its 3100 Main location in Houston, TX. The role runs daily administration and tuning of PeopleSoft environments for HR, Finance, and Student Administration. It covers installation, patching, monitoring, security, and disaster recovery in a 24x7 environment.

Highlights

Administer and optimize PeopleSoft environments across production, development, and test for HR, Finance, and Student Administration
Plan, install, and configure PeopleSoft servers in collaboration with other IT administrators, and write scripts that automate daily administrative tasks
Monitor PeopleSoft health and performance with software tools, report findings to management, and maintain change control and release and configuration management standards
Implement security measures including vulnerability assessment and patch management, and plan upgrades and disaster recovery
Troubleshoot complex application, software, and hardware issues, including sizing web, application, and database servers
Requires a bachelor's degree and five years in a production 24/7 environment, with PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and HCM familiarity

Systems Administrator Senior (PeopleSoft) Full Description

Systems Administrator Senior (PeopleSoft)

Houston City College | Houston, TX (3100 Main) | Job ID 26002QO

About the Role

The Senior Systems Administrator is responsible for the daily administration and optimization of PeopleSoft environments, including planning, installation, configuration, change control, patch management, and performance monitoring and tuning in a 24x7 environment. The work spans all production, development, and test environments for PeopleSoft Human Resources, Finance, and Student Administration applications.

Essential Functions

Collaborate with other IT administrators to design, plan, and implement the PeopleSoft server environments.
Write scripts to automate daily administrative tasks.
Evaluate and use software tools to monitor PeopleSoft health and performance, and report on health to management.
Create and follow change control and release and configuration management standards.
Implement and support security measures for PeopleSoft, including application installs, upgrades, vulnerability assessment, and patch management.
Plan PeopleSoft and utility upgrades and patches, and develop disaster recovery plans.
Troubleshoot complex issues across application, software, and hardware environments, sizing and configuring web, application, and database servers.
Provide training and mentoring to team members through knowledge transfer.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field; eight years of directly related experience may be considered in lieu of the degree.
Five years of experience in a production 24/7 environment, including two years administering and tuning information management systems and one year administering operating systems and application servers.
Valid Texas driver license.
Familiarity with Human Capital Management, Campus Solutions, ERP, operating systems, and network systems.

Work Environment

General office setting. The role may require work after hours, including weekends and holidays.