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Networking Specialist

Official Job Description

Networking Specialist

Supervised by: Director of Applications and Data Governance

Department: Information Technology Services

Grade: J

Category: Full-time Professional Technical

Status: Exempt

Function of the Job

Responsible for SVCC enterprise database maintenance and support. This position serves as the primary technical and operational backup to the Director of Infrastructure and Networking Services, ensuring continuous coverage of core campus servers, storage, virtualization, and network health. Concurrently, this role serves as a key technical backup to the Enterprise Systems and Database Management Lead, providing secondary database administration, maintenance, and application support for the Banner student information system.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Perform technical activities related to the design, analysis, development, and tuning of the Oracle databases and Banner.
  • Monitor Oracle database backups, clone and refresh databases from the production environment to development and testing environments as needed.
  • Develop triggers and other programs as needed for business processes.
  • Maintain various security grants and roles for the Oracle database structure and within the Banner security construct.
  • Perform systems installation, integration, maintenance, and performance management of the Oracle databases.
  • Provide backup support and technical assistance to the Enterprise Systems and Database management Lead for the installation, analysis, and upgrade execution of Banner, Argos, and other database-dependent applications across all production, development, and test environments.
  • Maintain and update Banner servers and serve as the primary operational backup to the Director of Infrastructure and Network Services regarding maintenance, monitoring, server patching, and disaster recovery execution of the College’s technical infrastructure.
  • Provide backup Active Directory administration and user provisioning systems to support seamless onboarding, access, and system permission workflows.
  • Document internal system infrastructure and workflow processes.
  • Provide backup support to other ITS personnel as assigned by supervisor.
  • Assume all other reasonable professional duties and responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.
  • In coordination with the Enterprise Systems and Database Management Lead, co-manage and test Oracle database backups, database cloning, and refreshing schedules to guarantee 100% data redundancy and environment readiness for campus testing.

Essential Functions

  • Knowledge of database operations; knowledge of voice, data, and video networking.
  • Understand and support the mission of the community college.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both verbally and written.
  • Ability to provide and understand verbal/visual orders from supervisors and to subordinates.
  • Excellent technical writing skills.
  • Availability to work non-standard hours as needed and on-call availability in case of system malfunctions and must perform upgrades and maintenance during off-hours.
  • Ability to work in a safe and alert manner.

Personal Interaction

Frequent contact is made with all levels of College personnel, students, and outside organizations in relation to routine departmental services and duties in providing appropriate assistance and information as requested. Ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of individuals.

Supervision Exercised

No supervision required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent education and experience preferred, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in system administration or database management.

Demonstrated experience with Oracle SQL, database administration and server virtualization strongly preferred.

Experience working within Ellucian Banner environment is highly preferred.

Revised: 9/10/2020; 09/03/2026

Tort Liability Statement:

Coordinates the College Risk Management Program in a capacity appropriate to this position. This includes, but is not limited to, monitoring conditions, events and circumstances present through daily College operations, and communicating observations to the appropriate supervisor or taking necessary actions to correct, prevent or limit safety problems. May serve as a member of a committee that supports the health, safety and/or legal rights of visitors, students and staff. Such committees may include the AA/EEO, Sexual Harassment, and Safety/Loss Control committees. (Risk Management Categories I, III, IV. See Tort file.)

This description is intended to indicate the kinds and levels of work difficulty that will be required of the position that will be given the title and shall not be construed as declaring what specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of the supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of a similar kind or level of difficulty.

 

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