ITES Microsoft Engineer

Details

Posted: 18-Feb-24

Location: Lawrence, Kansas

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

Categories:

Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 4895814

The University of Kansas, Information Technology Enterprise Systems (ITES) Microsoft team is seeking an IT Engineer to assist in the deployment, configuration and administration of highly complex, integrated systems and assets supporting campus operations. The Engineer assists Senior Engineers and IT Architects in the development and design of systems to provide optimum solutions to complex projects using 'infrastructure as code' and automated deployment tools and methods. The ideal candidate is someone who likes to manage systems, develop new skills, solve problems, and strives to find the best way to provide IT services for a large and diverse campus that includes administration, academic, and research functions.
Team Overview:
The mission of the ITES Microsoft team is to provide operational oversight to the enterprise systems supporting the goals of the University. The IT engineer employs automation and infrastructure-as-code methods to deploy and manage systems and enterprise applications. Technologies in use include Microsoft Windows Server; core Microsoft applications including Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services, Skype for Business, Certificate Services, Microsoft Exchange, and System Center Configuration Manager. The team is also responsible for the University's Microsoft Cloud environment including Microsoft Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure Security Center, Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft 365 applications. The team participates in the design, implementation, and support of the automated provisioning of users, groups, file shares, and systems using scripting languages and automation platforms including Azure Automation, AWX, Ansible, HashiCorp Terraform, and HashiCorp Vault. The team fosters a dynamic and creative environment which focuses on providing the best IT services and customer experience for faculty, staff, and researchers.
In addition to a competitive salary, KU offers great benefits to employees with up to 176 hours of paid vacation per year, 8 hours of sick leave earned every month, nine paid holidays plus one discretionary day, a retirement program, medical & dental insurance, life and disability insurance, other benefit plan options and State of Kansas discounts offered by various vendors. KU also offers employees educational and professional development opportunities. KU is a great place to work! The University actively encourages applications from members of underrepresented groups.
KU is not able to provide H-1B sponsorship for this position