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UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

At College of Built Environments (CBE) we value the traditions of design and community building. We do this with a conscious perspective of positively advancing social and technological change. Our unique gathering of disciplines—architecture, construction management, landscape architecture, real estate, and urban design and planning—provides a unique advantage and enables the College to truly define and excel in all areas of built environments. We believe in programs that meet the complex interconnected physical, cultural, and ecological systems in which we live, work and play.

CBE has an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Computer Specialist.  The position involves both highly skilled technical work and interaction with other (technical and non-technical) faculty, staff, and computing colleagues, as well as vendor support teams, to address computing issues and opportunities associated with end-user, fabrication, classroom, and studio computing and to analyze issues develop solutions for teaching and research computing.  Successful candidates will have breadth and depth of the required technical skill set and great resourcefulness to effectively address a wide and continuously changing range of difficult technical problems and opportunities.  They will provide skilled, effective, and empathetic support to CBE students, faculty, and staff contributing to the mutually supportive and resourceful culture of the College.

Responsibilities

Computing Support

Staff and Faculty Windows and Mac desktop/laptop setup and configuration

Fabrication lab development and support

Classroom/studio technical support

Collaboration with students, faculty, staff, and computing colleagues to address computing issues

Development and system administration of CBE’s Windows, Linux, Citrix, Apache, MySQL, and PHP server infrastructure.

Creation and deployment of desktop software images throughout the College.

Network license management for dozens of applications used across the College.

Consultation with CBE Web Developer, other computing colleagues, faculty, staff, and outside technical resources to address complex issues and opportunities.

Supervisory

Delegation of end user support to student consultants, follow up on task assignments, and manage student worker scheduling.

As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree

Two years of experience with the following:

Windows and Mac OS user support experience

Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, self-directed and proactive.

Application support experience such as Zoom, Office, and Adobe Suite.

Knowledge of general office networking hardware (i.e., switches, cabling, printers)

Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.

Desired

Experience supporting Network and Cloud (Google, Azure) file storage

Knowledge of web technologies such as Apache, MySQL, PHP, Linux

Application Process:
The application process for UW positions may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process.  These assessments may include Workforce Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others.  Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.