Salary: $44.49 - $46.71 Hourly
Location : Juneau or Anchorage, AK
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 54583
Department: Administration
Division: Office of Information Technology
Opening Date: 07/16/2026
Closing Date: 7/28/2026 5:00 PM Alaska
Division: Office of Information Technology
Position Open To: Alaska Residents Only
Bargaining Unit: General Government
Range: 21

Job Description
This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.

Please check out theto determine if you qualify.

The Department of Administration, Division of Office of Information Technology (OIT) is recruiting for an IT System Administrator 1 in either Anchorage or Juneau. Pay depends on the location of the candidate selected.
What You Will Be Doing:
You'll help keep the State of Alaska's identity and directory services running smoothly. This includes managing Active Directory, Entra ID, Certificate Authorities, Single Sign-On, DNS and other identity-related systems that support thousands of users every day.

Key Responsibilities:

• Active Directory & Entra ID administration
  Keep our identity systems healthy-managing performance, troubleshooting issues, and supporting key services like Authentication, Group Policy, Federation, and Single Sign-on integrations.
• Incident & Request Management

Resolve and manage identity-related incidents and requests in the State's "AlaskaNow" ticketing system.

• Monitoring & basic system health checks
  Review system logs, perform escalations, and help maintain service stability.
• Advanced admin tasks with senior oversight
  Work on higher-level tasks that require elevated access, including upgrades, platform checks, and fault-tolerance improvements.
• Network component checks & testing
  Help verify network-related services and ensure they're running reliably.
• Stay up to date on technology
  Stay current with emerging cloud technologies and industry best practices, applying new knowledge to enhance identity services and system reliability.

Identity and access systems are central to how Alaskans connect to government services. In this role, you help ensure those systems stay secure, stable, and ready for the future.

The Working Environment You Can Expect: OIT has office space available in Anchorage and Juneau and the position will be based at either 333 Willoughby Ave, 5th floor in Juneau, or 619 E Ship Creek Ave in Anchorage, when not working from home. Both locations are short driving or walking distance to restaurants, coffee shops and recreational areas. Who We Are Looking For:The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:

• Identity Management: Demonstrates the ability to manage and secure user identities across enterprise systems, including account provisioning, access governance, authentication workflows, and adherence to security and compliance standards.
• Technical Problem Solving: Troubleshoots, diagnoses, analyzes, and identifies system malfunctions to determine the source and cause of the problem.
• Configuration Management: Knowledge of the principles and methods for planning or managing the implementation, update, or integration of information systems components.

Minimum Qualifications
Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications InstructionsThis job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency DescriptionThe competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations instead of specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency's description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

• Hardware: Knowledge of specifications, uses, and types of computer or computer-related equipment.
• Infrastructure Design: Knowledge of the architecture and typology of software, hardware, and networks, including LANS, WANS, and telecommunications systems, their components and associated protocols and standards, and how they operate and integrate with one another and with associated controlling software.
• Operating Systems: Knowledge of computer network, desktop, and mainframe operating systems and their applications.
• Systems Integration: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and procedures for installing, integrating, and optimizing information systems components.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Training in computer science, information technology, or system administration - or a similar field or professional experience - that provided knowledge of systems, networking software, hardware, protocols, and scripting/automation tools.
Special Note:

"Competencies" means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

"Training" means the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

"Professional experience" means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.

"Progressively responsible" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

Additional Required Information
Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission.
THIS RECRUITMENT IS FOR ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY
Please be sure to check our to determine if you qualify.

At time of interview, please be prepared to provide:

• Three (3) professional references and current contact numbers, including two (2) current or former supervisors;
• Copies of your two (2) most recent employment performance evaluations if available; please substitute with letters of recommendation if evaluations are not available.
• A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial are okay, please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) to verify that you meet the minimum qualifications. if not provided, transcripts will be required prior to appointment.

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS
For your application to be evaluated, you must answer the Supplemental Questions.
The State of Alaska uses four proficiency levels to measure and describe an applicant's competence in applying specific behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The four proficiency levels are Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery. You must rate your proficiency level for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.
APSIN CLEARANCE

Due to the nature of the work of the Office of Information Technology and access to APSIN at the workplace, the individual who is selected for this position will be required to pass a background investigation and may be re-fingerprinted. Full disclosure of ALL past criminal convictions (both misdemeanor and felony including suspended impositions of sentence) at the time of application is required. Convictions may lead to disqualification due to the requirements necessary to access these systems.

Employment with the Office of Information Technology is contingent upon successfully completing and maintaining an APSIN background check and security clearance conducted by the Department of Public Safety. Fingerprinting is required.

EDUCATION
To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts) Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
If education is completed in a foreign college or university, it may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application, and you will not receive further consideration.

WORK EXPERIENCE

When using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether you worked full-time or part-time Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitmentA resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position you are applying for.
If you have currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position, please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position This is required as minimum qualifications require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered If this information is not accurately reflected in your application, this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.