Systems Administrator I
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Job overview
The Systems Administrator I advises technical and non-technical customers on business processes, security, systems, services, and project plans. The role collaborates with support teams and project colleagues on IT transitions, maintains relationships and operational processes, evaluates systems for migration or ongoing administration, and provides system administration and technical guidance for supported infrastructure and client-side systems.
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Full job description
Advise technical and non-technical customers on business processes, security, systems and services recommendations, and project plans. Communicate effectively with clients to gauge customer satisfaction and incorporate feedback into future planning. Collaborate effectively with peers and colleagues responsible for other support operations, including software development, computer support, network security, classroom technology, and administrative services. Collaborate with project team on departmental IT transition projects.Build and maintain departmental, team, and cross-team relationships, processes, documentation, and expertise to help advance LAITS systems operations, software development, instructional delivery, and academic research.Evaluate departmental servers, desktop systems, and applications for migration, consolidation, deprecation, or ongoing administration.Prepare and maintain system and project planning documentation including disaster recovery plans, configuration management, licenses, warranties, contracts and inventories. Recommend replacements or upgrades.Provide system administration of supported servers, desktop systems, and related services and applications. Configure and fine-tune infrastructure systems.Provide technical support, recommendations, and guidance in client-side systems administration and management to desktop support teams, customers, and technical groups across the enterprise.
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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