System Analyst, Senior

**Description** --------------- * **Any complete applications received after the initial review date will only be forwarded to the hiring committee at their request.** This position will become Open Until Filled after the initial Review Date. Any complete applications received while the position is Open Until Filled will be reviewed by the hiring committee only upon committee request. The Foothill \- De Anza Community College District does not have a remote work policy. All employees are expected to be available to work in person and on\-site per the requirement of the department. **Foothill – De Anza Community College District Mission Statement:** The mission of the Foothill\-De Anza Community College District is student success and educational excellence. The district and its colleges provide access to affordable, quality educational programs and services that develop a broadly educated and socially responsible community that supports an equitable and just future for California and the global community. Every member of our district contributes to a dynamic instructional and learning environment that fosters student engagement, equal opportunity, and innovation in meeting the various educational and career goals of our diverse students. Foothill\-De Anza is driven by an equity agenda and core values of integrity, inclusion, care for our students' well\-being, and sustainability. Under general supervision, performs complex and varied technical tasks related to the configuration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and monitoring of the District’s infrastructure including servers, network, on\-premises and cloud\-based systems; leads projects of importance and consequence to the District; designs, analyzes, manages, and maintains multiple physical, cloud\-based, and virtual server infrastructures and storage systems ensuring proper integration of these components with existing system architecture; configures, manages, and monitors backup infrastructure; provides recommendations, support, and training to other information services support staff and District users in areas of responsibility; and performs related work as required. **Job Summary** Under general supervision, this position serves as the District’s lead Windows systems administrator within a large\-scale VMware Horizon (Omnissa) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environment, responsible for architecting, configuring, and maintaining Windows Server systems that provide Active Directory, identity management, file sharing, and advanced Group Policy design and administration for instructional and student\-facing services. The Systems Analyst, Senior applies deep expertise in Group Policy, Active Directory, and VDI performance optimization to manage secure, scalable user environments supporting hundreds of students and faculty both on campus and remotely. The role emphasizes platform engineering, including image management and remediation through VMware vCenter, automation usin