Unless the job involves making specialized computing infrastructure, like supercomputing applications etc., the sundry IT ops of university get a rather tiny pa

Unless the job involves making specialized computing infrastructure, like supercomputing applications etc., the sundry IT ops of university get a rather tiny part of budget. Majority of a typical CS department's amortized spending can be ranked into - staff salary, library subscriptions, graduate student payroll, facility overhead, IT & other services - in that order usually.