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Auburn University

Systems Engineer

🇺🇸 Auburn, AL

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $62K - $121K

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ December 22nd, 2025

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Edtech.com's Summary

Auburn University is hiring a Systems Engineer. This role manages and administers complex client and server systems within the College of Engineering, ensuring stability and efficiency to support research, instruction, and administration. The position involves direct support to students, researchers, and faculty, managing a virtualized multi-node environment alongside physical servers providing diverse network services.

Highlights
  • Perform system management and complex administrative activities for client and server systems supporting academic and research functions.
  • Provide daily end-user support to students, faculty, researchers, and administration.
  • Manage multi-node virtual environments using Proxmox and physical servers delivering file, web, database, email, DNS, DHCP, SFTP, and Git services.
  • Install and maintain physical server hardware, network switches, and datacenter cabling.
  • Design, implement, and maintain virtualized and containerized infrastructure with tools such as Ansible.
  • Administer Linux and Windows servers, including software deployment, system monitoring, penetration testing, and backup infrastructure.
  • Required skills include extensive programming for task automation, expertise in enterprise Linux server environments (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Debian), and proficiency in networking services like DHCP, DNS, LDAP, SSH, and email.
  • Desired qualifications include experience with network file services (NFS, SMB, ZFS), Active Directory, NIS, datacenter hardware setup, virtualization platforms (Proxmox, VMware, HyperV), container technologies (Docker), and web server management (Apache, PHP, MySQL, Nginx).
  • Minimum qualifications vary from a high school diploma with 11 years experience to a bachelor's degree with 3 years experience; senior roles require a bachelor's degree with 6 years experience.
  • Salary range is $61,840 to $120,760 annually.