Application Administrator II

University of Rochester; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 64,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Rochester in Brighton, NY invites applications for an Application Administrator II. This role builds, maintains, monitors, and audits on-premises applications, ensuring security standards and supporting upgrades and integrations across systems.

You will participate in on-call rotations, work with vendors, review architecture standards, and collaborate with technical and business teams to translate requirements into reliable, scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• The Application Administrator II builds, maintains, monitors, and audits on-premises application installations.
• Participates in on-call rotations, working independently during daily development efforts, system maintenance, and failures; collaborates with teams to ensure timely, quality delivery of upgrades and changes.
• Reviews architecture standards for on-premises apps and may participate in evaluating cloud and hybrid solutions.

Job description

As a community, the University of Rochester is defined by a deep commitment to Meliora - Ever Better. Embedded in that ideal are the values we share: equity, leadership, integrity, openness, respect, and accountability. Together, we will set the highest standards for how we treat each other to ensure our community is welcoming to all and is a place where all can thrive.

Job Location (Full Address): 30 Corporate Woods, Brighton, New York, United States of America, 14623

Opening:

Worker Subtype: Regular

Time Type: Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Department: 900081 ISD Analytics

Work Shift: UR - Day (United States of America)

Range: UR URG 111

Compensation Range: $64,200.00 - $96,200.00

The referenced pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation for this job. Individual annual salaries/hourly rates will be set within the job's compensation range, and will be determined by considering factors including, but not limited to, market data, education, experience, qualifications, expertise of the individual, and internal equity considerations.

Responsibilities

• The Application Administrator II builds, maintains, monitors, and audits on-premises application installations. This may include, but is not limited to, ensuring security standards are applied, troubleshooting, implementing new solutions, and participating in projects to upgrade components or whole systems. May review and provide recommendations for architecture standards related to on-premises applications and may participate in the evaluation of cloud solutions and combinations of cloud and on-premises solutions.
• The Application Administrator II participates in on-call rotations, working independently during daily development efforts, system maintenance, and instances of system failures. Serves on project teams and identifies and evaluates risks and opportunities for efficiencies. The Application Administrator II is part of a team that supports the planning and implementation of new systems or functions and ensures that application maintenance and upgrades are delivered on time and with quality.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Provides technical support for, and may lead, non-production and production environments, including troubleshooting and remediation of technical issues. May take a lead role in working with third party vendors and software companies. Research and answer technical application, database, server, and security configuration questions. Serves as an escalation point for support and provides on-call support after hours as defined by the application support requirements. Works with, and may lead, various technical and functional personnel as needed to fulfill requests for technical support, including application, system-to-system integrations, and security administration. Monitors non-production and production environments and works in conjunction with, and may lead, database administrators, security, and systems administrators to provide performance tuning on application, database, server, and security settings and features. Appropriately uses tools and sometimes provides direction to efficiently manage code migrations, environment builds, testing and implementation. Applies patches and delivers minor and major application upgrades.

Works with, technical resources and, in some cases, functional / business analysts on application, database, server, or security requirements and translates, in some cases, functional/business analysts ' requirements into technical or systems specifications for implementation. Designs technical enhancements to support the application, database, server, or security landscape. Completes assigned application administration deliverables and may lead teams in the completion of their assigned deliverables, including the configuration of applications, databases, servers, or security settings and features, and provides implementation and ongoing support. Actively participates in, and may lead, application administration, maintenance, or implementation plan walkthroughs. May develop technical documentation to be used by application administration, development, or support teams. Actively participates in, and may lead, the testing of newly developed applications, integrations, systems, solutions, and upgrades of applications or application support tools. Works closely with, and may lead, technical resources and, in some cases, functional / business analysts to prepare test plans, test data, and complete integrated testing. Follows and may develop best-practice application administration and change management procedures. Actively participates in smaller systems projects or enhancements, delivering assigned application administration tasks following project plans and estimates. May lead technical teams in the delivery of their assignments. Provides input for project plans and estimates related to application administration for projects or enhancements.

Actively participates in, and may lead, regular team retrospec