Systems Administrator I
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The Systems Administrator I manages servers, workstations, web and cloud resources, networking, and data backups and archiving for CT lab operations. The role also maintains lab and conference-room equipment and provides user training and purchasing advice. For full-time positions, responsibilities additionally include maintaining X-ray equipment and initiating daily conditioning of X-ray sources.
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Full job description
Manage and Maintain Servers: Planning, setup, and maintenance of CT labs onsite Windows Servers and connections to Campus Active Directory. Includes hardware, software, and firmware updating; floating software license server maintenance; user account creation and management; setting security policy, firewalls, and intrusion detection; raid arrays for bulk data storage; and periodic security audits.Manage and Maintain Workstations, including hardware and software maintenance of IP lab, conference room, Digital Methods Classroom, staff desktops and laptops. Includes license management; security controls; AD integration; remote access; user accounts. Setup and maintenance of projection systems, and video conference equipment. Setup and maintenance of lab printers, document scanners, and digital camera equipment. Also includes user training and instruction, and pre-purchase advising about GPUs and workstations for CT lab clients.Manage and Maintain Web/Cloud Resources: setup and maintenance of UT Datacenter Virtual machines as necessary, including for CT lab website and Digimorph.org website. Administration and daily use of cloud-based bulk storage and data distribution.Manage and Maintain Networking: design, setup, and maintenance of network infrastructure; security controls; running cables and telecom-room operation; switches, routers, and NICs; IP address allocation and database management, DNS setup and maintenance.Assist the Maintenance of X-ray Equipment [full-time only]: Hardware and software maintenance of data acquisition and reconstruction systems, including security controls, remote access, and local raid arrays. Diagnostics and maintenance of NSI X-ray generators and associated racks of electronics equipment. Initiate daily conditioning of all X-ray sources. Manage and Maintain Backups and Archiving: Includes hardware and software maintenance of local Rapid-Recovery backup system and associated raid arrays. Setup and maintenance of offsite data backups, such as TACC and UTBOX and external hard drive backups of large Raw-data archives. Utilizing on-line repositories, such as the Texas Data Repository, for long-term data and metadata preservation and making select CT data available for public downloading.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,391 open Systems Administrator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$86–130K/yr44 salary ranges
- US median$38–47/hr101 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 124 open Systems Administrator jobs in Texas and 2,391 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)19 open
- ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company9 open
- SpaceX7 open
- Experience
- Systems Administrator postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 6 years (2,042 postings).
- Education
- 722 of the 2,391 open Systems Administrator jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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