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IT Administrator roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship when they meet the specialty occupation standard, typically requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field. Australia's IT administrators are well-positioned for this pathway, which carries no lottery and allows indefinite two-year renewals.
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Location:
Belknap Campus
Time Type:
Full time
Worker Type:
Regular
Job Req ID:
R108706
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in a related field and four (4) years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Grade 8 (Salaried)
Position Description:
The University of Louisville seeks an experienced and collaborative IT Systems Administrator III (IAM Application Administrator) for Identity Governance to join the Identity and Access Management team. This position is responsible for the administration, configuration, support, and continuous improvement of the university’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform and related identity lifecycle processes.
The Application Administrator plays a key role in ensuring that access to university systems is provisioned appropriately, reviewed regularly, and removed in a timely manner for students, faculty, staff, researchers, contractors, and affiliates. This role partners closely with Human Resources, the Registrar, Enterprise Applications, Infrastructure, Internal Audit, and distributed IT teams to support secure, efficient, and compliant identity governance services across a complex higher education environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, maintain, and support the Fischer Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform in production and non-production environments.
- Configure and manage identity lifecycle processes and workflows for faculty, staff, students, affiliates, and other sponsored identities.
- Support provisioning, deprovisioning, approvals, role assignments, access requests, and certification campaigns across connected systems.
- Develop, configure, test, and maintain integrations between the IGA platform and enterprise systems such as HR, student information, directory, ERP, learning, and cloud applications.
- Monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, resolve application issues, and coordinate with vendor support as needed.
- Partner with IAM architects, security engineers, application owners, and business stakeholders to define and implement access governance requirements.
- Assist with role and entitlement modeling, birthright access, and least-privilege access controls.
- Support periodic access reviews, audit requests, control validation, and remediation activities.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, support runbooks, and configuration standards.
- Participate in testing, upgrades, patching, release management, and change control for the Fischer platform and related integrations.
- Identify opportunities for automation, process improvement, and service maturity within identity governance operations.
- Contribute to IAM roadmap initiatives, including modernization of identity data flows, governance controls, and user experience.
- Provide tier 2 and tier 3 support for IAM-related issues and serve as a subject matter resource for identity governance processes.
- This job may require access to technology, data and software source code that is subject to US export controls. An offer of employment is contingent upon verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining the necessary export control licenses to perform the job functions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Four years of professional experience in Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance and Administration, or closely related enterprise application administration.
- Experience administering or supporting one or more IAM/IGA platforms such as SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Oracle Identity Manager, Fischer, or similar technologies.
- Working knowledge of identity lifecycle management concepts, including joiner/mover/leaver processes, provisioning and deprovisioning, role-based access, and access reviews.
- Experience integrating enterprise applications using APIs, flat files, directories, or other common integration methods.
- Working knowledge of LDAP, Active Directory, and identity data synchronization concepts.
- Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues across applications, integration, and workflow layers.
- Ability to write or modify scripts using tools such as PowerShell, Python, SQL, or similar technologies.
- Experience working with structured data formats such as JSON and XML.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to document processes, configurations, decisions, and operational procedures clearly and thoroughly.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Direct experience administering or implementing Fischer Identity Governance and Administration.
- Experience working in a higher education environment.
- Understanding of university identity populations and lifecycle complexities, including student enrollment changes, adjunct faculty, contingent workers, researchers, alumni, and sponsored accounts.
- Experience integrating IAM or IGA platforms with HR systems, student information systems, ERP systems, and SaaS platforms.
- Familiarity with access governance concepts such as segregation of duties, certification campaigns, policy violations, and attestation workflows.
- Knowledge of authentication and federation technologies, including SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and single sign-on environments.
- Experience supporting audit, compliance, or regulatory requirements in a distributed enterprise environment.
- Familiarity with privacy and security considerations relevant to higher education, such as FERPA and protection of institutional data.
- Experience working with change management, release processes, and vendor-managed support cases.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, Security+, or vendor-specific IAM certifications.
- This role is primarily remote; however, candidates should be able to work on campus when necessary. Fully remote candidates (out of state) will be considered only if local recruitment efforts are unsuccessful.
Compensation will be commensurate to candidate experience.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The University of Louisville is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. The University strives to provide equal employment opportunity on the basis of merit and without unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, or pregnancy. In accordance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veteran Readjustment Act of 1974, the University prohibits job discrimination of individuals with disabilities, Vietnam era veterans, qualified special disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans. The University acknowledges its obligations to ensure affirmative steps are taken to ensure equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. It is the policy of the University that no employee or applicant for employment be subject to unlawful discrimination in terms of recruitment, hiring, promotion, contract, contract renewal, tenure, compensation, benefits, and/or working conditions. No employee or applicant for employment is required to endorse or condemn a specific ideology, political viewpoint, or social viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, or promotion.
Consistent with applicable law, demographic information is collected for aggregate reporting requirements. Demographic information provided through this application is not available to hiring managers/committees and is not considered in hiring or employment decisions.
Assistance and Accommodations
Computers are available for application submission at the Human Resources Department located at 2315 South First Street Walk, Room 02C - Louisville, Kentucky 40292.
If you require assistance or accommodation with our online application process, please contact us by email at employment@louisville.edu or by phone 502-852-6258.
Department:
Location:
Belknap Campus
Time Type:
Full time
Worker Type:
Regular
Job Req ID:
R108706
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in a related field and four (4) years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Grade 8 (Salaried)
Position Description:
The University of Louisville seeks an experienced and collaborative IT Systems Administrator III (IAM Application Administrator) for Identity Governance to join the Identity and Access Management team. This position is responsible for the administration, configuration, support, and continuous improvement of the university’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform and related identity lifecycle processes.
The Application Administrator plays a key role in ensuring that access to university systems is provisioned appropriately, reviewed regularly, and removed in a timely manner for students, faculty, staff, researchers, contractors, and affiliates. This role partners closely with Human Resources, the Registrar, Enterprise Applications, Infrastructure, Internal Audit, and distributed IT teams to support secure, efficient, and compliant identity governance services across a complex higher education environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, maintain, and support the Fischer Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform in production and non-production environments.
- Configure and manage identity lifecycle processes and workflows for faculty, staff, students, affiliates, and other sponsored identities.
- Support provisioning, deprovisioning, approvals, role assignments, access requests, and certification campaigns across connected systems.
- Develop, configure, test, and maintain integrations between the IGA platform and enterprise systems such as HR, student information, directory, ERP, learning, and cloud applications.
- Monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, resolve application issues, and coordinate with vendor support as needed.
- Partner with IAM architects, security engineers, application owners, and business stakeholders to define and implement access governance requirements.
- Assist with role and entitlement modeling, birthright access, and least-privilege access controls.
- Support periodic access reviews, audit requests, control validation, and remediation activities.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, support runbooks, and configuration standards.
- Participate in testing, upgrades, patching, release management, and change control for the Fischer platform and related integrations.
- Identify opportunities for automation, process improvement, and service maturity within identity governance operations.
- Contribute to IAM roadmap initiatives, including modernization of identity data flows, governance controls, and user experience.
- Provide tier 2 and tier 3 support for IAM-related issues and serve as a subject matter resource for identity governance processes.
- This job may require access to technology, data and software source code that is subject to US export controls. An offer of employment is contingent upon verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining the necessary export control licenses to perform the job functions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Four years of professional experience in Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance and Administration, or closely related enterprise application administration.
- Experience administering or supporting one or more IAM/IGA platforms such as SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Oracle Identity Manager, Fischer, or similar technologies.
- Working knowledge of identity lifecycle management concepts, including joiner/mover/leaver processes, provisioning and deprovisioning, role-based access, and access reviews.
- Experience integrating enterprise applications using APIs, flat files, directories, or other common integration methods.
- Working knowledge of LDAP, Active Directory, and identity data synchronization concepts.
- Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues across applications, integration, and workflow layers.
- Ability to write or modify scripts using tools such as PowerShell, Python, SQL, or similar technologies.
- Experience working with structured data formats such as JSON and XML.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to document processes, configurations, decisions, and operational procedures clearly and thoroughly.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Direct experience administering or implementing Fischer Identity Governance and Administration.
- Experience working in a higher education environment.
- Understanding of university identity populations and lifecycle complexities, including student enrollment changes, adjunct faculty, contingent workers, researchers, alumni, and sponsored accounts.
- Experience integrating IAM or IGA platforms with HR systems, student information systems, ERP systems, and SaaS platforms.
- Familiarity with access governance concepts such as segregation of duties, certification campaigns, policy violations, and attestation workflows.
- Knowledge of authentication and federation technologies, including SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and single sign-on environments.
- Experience supporting audit, compliance, or regulatory requirements in a distributed enterprise environment.
- Familiarity with privacy and security considerations relevant to higher education, such as FERPA and protection of institutional data.
- Experience working with change management, release processes, and vendor-managed support cases.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, Security+, or vendor-specific IAM certifications.
- This role is primarily remote; however, candidates should be able to work on campus when necessary. Fully remote candidates (out of state) will be considered only if local recruitment efforts are unsuccessful.
Compensation will be commensurate to candidate experience.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The University of Louisville is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. The University strives to provide equal employment opportunity on the basis of merit and without unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, or pregnancy. In accordance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veteran Readjustment Act of 1974, the University prohibits job discrimination of individuals with disabilities, Vietnam era veterans, qualified special disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans. The University acknowledges its obligations to ensure affirmative steps are taken to ensure equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. It is the policy of the University that no employee or applicant for employment be subject to unlawful discrimination in terms of recruitment, hiring, promotion, contract, contract renewal, tenure, compensation, benefits, and/or working conditions. No employee or applicant for employment is required to endorse or condemn a specific ideology, political viewpoint, or social viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, or promotion.
Consistent with applicable law, demographic information is collected for aggregate reporting requirements. Demographic information provided through this application is not available to hiring managers/committees and is not considered in hiring or employment decisions.
Assistance and Accommodations
Computers are available for application submission at the Human Resources Department located at 2315 South First Street Walk, Room 02C - Louisville, Kentucky 40292.
If you require assistance or accommodation with our online application process, please contact us by email at employment@louisville.edu or by phone 502-852-6258.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as an IT Administrator
Translate your Australian IT credentials early
USCIS requires your degree to align with the specific role. If your qualification is a three-year Australian bachelor's, get a credential evaluation confirming U.S. equivalency before you start applying. Gaps here slow down LCA filing.
Target employers with existing visa infrastructure
Companies that have sponsored E-3 visa or H-1B visas before already have legal counsel and HR processes in place. Filter for mid-to-large technology firms, managed service providers, and financial institutions with dedicated IT departments.
Clarify the specialty occupation case before signing
IT Administrator is a broad title. Roles focused on general helpdesk or desktop support rarely satisfy the specialty occupation definition. Before accepting an offer, confirm the position description emphasises systems architecture, network infrastructure, or security, not generalist support tasks.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service after you receive an offer
Once you have a signed offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork. The LCA must be certified by DOL before you can attend your consulate appointment, and timing errors here delay your start date.
Understand the E-3 advantage over H-1B for IT roles
Unlike H-1B, the E-3 has a 10,500 annual cap that has never been exhausted and requires no lottery. For IT Administrator roles, this means your employer can initiate the process at any point in the year without waiting for an annual registration window.
Prepare for consulate questions about your technical scope
Consular officers assess whether your role genuinely requires specialised knowledge. Bring documentation showing systems you manage, certifications such as MCSE or CCNA, and your employer's organisation chart positioning your role above generalist support staff.
E-3 Visa IT Administrator: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find IT Administrator jobs with E-3 sponsorship?
Use Migrate Mate to search IT Administrator roles where employers are open to E-3 sponsorship. Most job boards don't filter by visa type, so you waste time on roles that won't progress. Migrate Mate surfaces positions from employers already familiar with the E-3 process, reducing back-and-forth with HR about what the visa requires.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does an IT Administrator role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
It depends on the specific duties. USCIS defines a specialty occupation as one that normally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field. An IT Administrator role focused on enterprise network infrastructure, cybersecurity, or systems engineering will typically qualify. A role primarily covering helpdesk tickets or basic desktop support often won't meet the threshold.
How does the E-3 visa compare to H-1B for IT Administrator roles?
The E-3 is available only to Australian nationals, but that restriction is also its strength. There's no lottery, the 10,500 annual cap has never been filled, and your employer can file at any time of year. H-1B requires registration in April with a randomised selection process. For an IT Administrator with Australian citizenship, the E-3 is a significantly more reliable path.
Can I change employers while on an E-3 as an IT Administrator?
Yes, but the process starts fresh with the new employer. They'll need to file a new LCA with the DOL and you'll attend a new consulate appointment or apply for a change of status if you're already in the U.S. There's no portability mechanism like AC21 on the H-1B, so plan your transition timeline around the full filing cycle.