Infrastructure and Resiliency Coordinator - Hybrid

University of Illinois System
University of Illinois System

Other Engineering

Urbana, IL, USA

Posted on Jul 21, 2026
Coordinate with university data center management personnel and service providers to ensure that the data center hosting needs for AITS are met. Represent AITS in data center governance, operations, and working groups across the universities. Provide communication and coordination between AITS and data center management groups regarding outages, upgrades, installation, and removal of AITS equipment. Work with auditors and AITS personnel as needed to satisfy requests and needs of internal and external audits. Manage large data center projects and those related to IT infrastructure. Work with AITS Administration and Financial Management (AFM), trades, vendors, and purchasing on data center-related projects; and provide coordination of work, which could include communications, scheduling, and assembling budgetary information in relation to such projects. Work with others to maintain the Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and emergency management plans to ensure that they are current and meet the needs of AITS and System Office. Work with the team to generate and maintain electronic and physical copies of the DR plan. Work with the team to develop and execute the DR and BCP program. This includes holding table-top exercises for DR testing; working with units to prioritize system recovery; holding training sessions for staff with identified roles in the BCP / DR plans; revising the plans as needed; coordinating the annual DR tests; reviewing and prioritization of systems and services; reconciling the plans with operations reports and inventory. Serve as primary lead for maintaining the AITS BCP plan. Manage IT operations projects following PMO processes and procedures. Work with PMO on processes and methodology in conjunction with IT Operations and data center projects. Be able to communicate the desired direction, goals, concerns, or issues of the Director of Infrastructure, Cloud Architecture, and Assurance as needed in various settings such as meetings, emails, phone calls, and conversations. Provide overall leadership on special projects for the Associate Vice President or Senior Associate Vice President. Perform related duties and responsibilities appropriate for a Coordinator position.