[BBLISA-jobs] SENIOR NETWORK SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR – Tufts University

[Marika Francis]

SENIOR NETWORK SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR – Tufts Computing & Communications 
Services

*Position schedule is Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., plus 
on-call responsibilities and maintenance windows from midnight to 2:00 
a.m. as needed.*

The position of Senior Network Systems Administrator within the Tufts 
Network Engineering group is responsible for the build, maintenance, and 
security of Solaris and FreeBSD application servers supporting the 
mission of the NOC. This includes, but is not limited to, the following 
applications: ISC’s BIND and DHCP, MySQL, Nagios, Cricket, RANCID, 
Juniper’s NSM, Net-SNMP, Apache, Nessus, Exim, and development 
environments for Perl and PHP. He/she is also responsible for 
application and server environment troubleshooting; architectural design 
and testing of new or expanded services; University internal consulting 
with other IT support groups; NOC desktop maintenance; and project 
management.

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree and five to seven years of 
relevant experience. The successful candidate must possess expert level 
skills in administering and securing Solaris and FreeBSD servers in a 
production environment. Candidates without substantial professional 
experience on these specific operating systems and supporting hardware 
will not be considered. In addition, the candidate should possess expert 
level knowledge of the operation of DNS and DHCP, with experience 
administering and configuring the ISC BIND and DHCP servers in a 
large-scale production environment. Experience with DDNS and DNSSEC 
would be ideal. Knowledge of and experience with Sun’s Jumpstart and 
CFengine would also be a plus. This position requires frequent 
high-level troubleshooting of complex systems, and the successful 
candidate should be able to demonstrate both expert level knowledge, and 
a systematic, analytical approach. The successful candidate must be able 
to work well within a team, mentor junior teammates within his/her area 
of expertise, and also collaborate with technical peers to develop 
superior solutions. Professional experience with IDS, firewalls, 
routing, switching, or load balancing would be helpful, specifically as 
it pertains to NetScreen, Foundry, Cisco, and F5’s product lines. This 
is an “on-call” position and requires 24x7 response on a rotating 
schedule shared with other NOC staff.

Please apply online at www.tufts.edu/home/careers/