Category : : Professional
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Department : : Information
Technology Services -
02007
Locations : : Albany,
NY
Posted : : Sep 10,
2025
Closes : : Open Until
Filled
Type : : Full-time
Ref. No. : : WF240297r
Position ID : : 192683
About University at
Albany : Established in 1844
and designated a University Center of the State University of New
York in 1962, the University at Albany's broad mission of
excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, research, and
public service engages a diverse student body of more than 17,000
students in nine schools and colleges across three
campuses.
Located in Albany, New York, New York
State's capital, the University is convenient to Boston, New York
City, and the
Adirondacks.
Job
Description : Information
Technology Services (ITS), the central IT provider at the
University at Albany, seeks applicants for a Desktop and Mobile
Computing (D&MC) Senior Endpoint Management Specialist. ITS
manages and supports nearly 7,000 university-owned faculty / staff,
classroom, conference room, and research lab desktops and mobile
devices. The D&MC Endpoint Management Specialist is a senior
position that is key to continuous improvement and delivery of
services in this large-scale operation.
The D&MC Senior Endpoint
Management Specialist is a subject matter expert in desktop and
mobile computing and provides technical leadership within service
teams. They address and resolve complex and non-standard requests
and issues. They develop and maintain strong expertise in
enterprise management applications and tools (i.e., Active
Directory, MECM, AllSight, Jamf, etc.) and steer the selection and
usage of each in achieving ITS' goals and adhering to ITS'
principles and standards.
The D&MC
Senior Endpoint Management Specialist understands the importance of
well-defined processes and promoting their adoption across large
service teams to successfully manage the pace and volume of work
required to support thousands of devices. The successful Senior
Endpoint Management Specialist independently identifies process
challenges and recommends and assists in implementing actionable
improvements and solutions to the D&MC Manager. They monitor
the flow of real-time work and act to address operational
problems.
Under the leadership and
direction of the D&MC Manager, the Senior Endpoint Management
Specialist is responsible for ensuring internal and customer-facing
documentation is created, accurate, and updated regularly. They
understand the value of documentation in promoting clarity and
cohesion for large service
teams.
Primary
Responsibilities : Enterprise
management applications and tools (i.e., Active Directory, MECM,
AllSight, Jamf, etc.)
Ensure that all enterprise
desktop and mobile device management applications and tools are
maintained, and versions updated in a timely fashion and adhere to
ITS standards, controls, security policies and
procedures.
Build and maintain advanced
technical expertise in ITS' enterprise desktop and mobile device
management applications and tools.
Stay abreast
of advances in the field and steer technical direction in D&MC,
following ITS' architecture review
protocols.
Asset
inventory maintenance, cyclical planning, budgeting, and related
projects
Develop and maintain a strong
understanding of how the inventory data structure, operational
processes to add / remove / update records, inventory dashboards and
reports, and project workload planning all play a role in planning
cyclic replacement of all D&MC
assets.
Regularly report on anomalies and
potential problems in the asset inventories for all supported
services and work to resolve.
Maintain, provide
reports and update replacement schedule and replacement cost fields
in the asset inventories for all supported service areas to support
budgeting and planning
processes.
Endpoints
service standards, efficient operations and consistent user
experiences
Provide subject matter expertise,
oversee and continuously evaluate hardware and software deployment
and support processes, their effectiveness and recommend
improvements.
Determine and document the
standard workstation and printer models and configurations for
various use cases including fac / staff, classrooms, conference
rooms, research labs; refresh standards, as
needed.
Oversee the internal and external
documentation and maintain all approved desktop and mobile
computing standards for the
University.
Regularly report on workstation
hardware, operating systems, software, and printers at risk or
outside of defined standards and work to
resolve.
Determine and document operating
system versions used for deployments; determine and manage upgrade
cycles.
Provide
day-to-day operational oversight of operations and service
offerings
Prepare technical diagrams,
configuration logs, process maps, internal and external knowledge
base articles, and other documentation, as
needed.
Provide subject matter expertise,
technical support and collaborate across ITS teams and on projects
to identify problems, devise creative solutions, and implement
proposed recommendations.
Other reasonable
duties as
assigned.
Project
Management
Serve as Project Manager on D&MC
projects.
Actively participate, as needed, in
ITS projects related to your
service(s).
Functional
and Supervisory
Relationships : Reports
to : Manager of Desktop and Mobile Computing
Services
Supervises the following positions :
None
Interacts with : ITS staff; faculty and
staff in academic, research, and business units; external
vendors / contractors / consultants; peer
institutions
Job
Requirements : Excellent
interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
Organize work, prioritize tasks, and manage
multiple and changing priorities.
Provide
scheduled support and consultation outside normal business hours,
including occasional evenings, holidays, or weekends, within
reasonable professional obligation and expectation.
Report to campus in-person on Mondays,
Wednesdays, Fridays, and as needed. This position is eligible to
telecommute on Tuesdays and Thursdays, following a probationary
period and with supervisor
approval.
Requirements : Excellent
Qualifications :
bachelor's degree from a college or university accredited by a U.S.
Department of Education (DOE) or internationally recognized
accrediting organization, or at least 6 years of full-time
professional experience related to the
role.
Minimum of 3 years' experience building
operating systems and application deployments in a large, complex
environment.
Minimum of 3 years' experience
documenting deployment processes that can be replicated / implemented
by field staff.
Minimum of 3 years' experience
supporting desktops and mobile devices, IT operations, or systems
administration addressing and resolving issues escalated for higher
level support.
Applicants must demonstrate an
ability to develop inclusive and equitable relationships within our
diverse campus community
Applicants must
demonstrate an ability to support diversity, equity, access,
inclusion, and belonging relative to their
role
Preferred
Qualifications :
Minimum
of 3 years' experience using Microsoft Endpoint Configuration
Manager (MECM); for operating system deployments, application
packaging and deployment, and workstation security / patch
management.
Minimum of 3 years' experience
using and maintaining active directory and group
policy.
Minimum of 3 years' experience
developing and continuously maintaining technical documentation
within a knowledge base repository.
Experience
configuring and managing a Microsoft mobile device management (MDM)
system such as Microsoft Intune.
Experience
configuring and managing an Apple mobile device management (MDM)
system such as Jamf Pro.
Experience using
PowerShell (or similar scripting language) to manage workstations,
users, AD.
Experience using and supporting
workstations running Linux operating
systems.
Working
Environment : Typical
office
environment
Additional
Information : Professional
Rank and Salary Grade : Senior Programmer / Analyst, SL-4,
$85,000-$95,000
Special Note : Visa
sponsorship is not available for this position. If you currently
need sponsorship or will need it in the future to maintain
employment authorization, you do not meet eligibility requirements.
Additionally, please note that UAlbany is not an
E-Verify employer.
The
Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime
Statistics Act, or Clery Act, mandates that all Title IV
institutions, without exception, prepare, publish and distribute an
Annual Security Report. This report consists of two basic parts :
disclosure of the University's crime statistics for the past three
years; and disclosures regarding the University's current campus
security policies. The University at Albany's Annual Security
Report is available in portable document format [PDF] by clicking
this link
http : / / police.albany.edu / ASR.shtml
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to NYS Labor Law 194-A, no State entity, as defined by the Law, is
permitted to rely on, orally or in writing seek, request, or
require in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his
or her current wage, or salary history as a condition to be
interviewed, or as a condition of continuing to be considered for
an offer of employment, until such time as the applicant is
extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation, and
for the purpose of verifying information, may such requests be
made. If such information has been requested from you before such
time, please contact the Governor's Office of Employee Relations at
(518) 474-6988 or via email at
info@goer.ny.gov.
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UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY IS AN EO / AA / IRCA / ADA
EMPLOYER
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the applicable preferred qualifications
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A review of
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