Job No. 154669
- Job Title:
- Lead IT Support Professional
- Employer:
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Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
- Location:
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Atlanta , GA
- Posting Date:
- 17-Jan-2025
- Description:
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Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.
Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.
Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.
Location
Atlanta, GA
Department Information
The College of Computing was established in 1990 as the first such College at a public university and the second in the United States. Since that time, the college has grown into a world-class leader in research and education. The graduate CS program is currently ranked 6th and the undergraduate 5th nationally by U.S. News and World Report. The College consists of five Schools that provide specialized and general computing education to the entire campus. With over 16-degree programs, including its world-renowned online MS in CS, we believe the College to be the largest Computing unit in the United States and, as such, one of the largest producers of computationalist at all levels and of all demographic backgrounds. The College is a part of the Georgia Institute of Technology, a unit of the University System of Georgia and is primarily located in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia.
Job Summary
Provide unit level technical leadership and/or expert advice and problem solving in support of a wide variety of users systems and applications. Position requires management and analysis of unique issues/problems which may be without precedent and typically functions with a high degree of autonomy. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: users within assigned unit which include management, faculty and staff personnel. This position typically will advise and counsel: senior unit management. This position will supervise: NA (team leadership only).
Responsibilities
Job Duty 1 -
Provide technical team leadership to include formulating strategies and administering policies, processes and resources
Job Duty 2 -
Develop standard operating procedures or best practices for the unit.
Job Duty 3 -
Perform research and consulting roles in support of large projects in the unit.
Job Duty 4 -
Diagnoses and resolve highly complex technical problems associated with computer hardware, software and servers.
Job Duty 5 -
Lead in identification and implementation of hardware replacement or upgrades.
Job Duty 6 -
Provide expertise technical advice to unit management.
Job Duty 7 -
Deliver technical presentations to unit administration.
Job Duty 8 -
Perform other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Required Experience
Six to eight years of job related experience
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrate advanced knowledge of networking hardware, software, and applications e.g. data network wiring, switch port configuration, switch and router configuration and deployment, VLAN configuration and trunking, DNS/DHCP configuration, firewall concepts and implementation, and troubleshooting.
Network monitoring experience.
Knowledge of network security concepts.
Design, order, and maintain equipment contracts for data center assets including cooling units, power units, and network equipment.
Exemplary customer service skills and the ability to handle unusual technical requests.
Experience with Cisco routers and switches.
Networking concepts of MAB and NAC.
Knowledge of Power infrastructure (i.e., rack PDUs, power panels, floor PDUs, UPSs, generators,) to recommend power needs for servers. Monitoring using Data Center Environmental sensors (i.e., temperature, humidity, water, smoke, and airflow).
Cooling equipment (i.e., CRACs/CRAHs, cooling towers, and chillers).
Basic Linux systems experience.
Knowledge of a UNIX scripting language (e.g. perl, bash, etc.). Oversee inventory management for all equipment in the data centers, including location, age, price, and contacts.
Higher Education experience preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
SKILLS
This job requires expert knowledge of and leadership skills in the installation and maintenance of highly complex information technology hardware and software, requiring recognized technical expertise. Included are skills in problem solving, decision making, technical/project leadership, customer service, system documentation and communications.
- Contact information:
- Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
- Atlanta, GA 30332
- United States
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