University of Rochester · 2 months ago
Application Administrator I
Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area
Full-time
Onsite
Entry Level
$60K/yr - $85K/yr
1+ years expThe University of Rochester is committed to fostering an inclusive community and is seeking an Application Administrator I. The role involves building, maintaining, and auditing on-premise application installations, providing technical support, and participating in application administration projects.
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Responsibilities
Assists with building, maintaining, monitoring and auditing on-premise application installations, including but not limited to, ensuring security standards are applied, troubleshooting, implementing new solutions and participating on projects to upgrade components or whole systems
Follows recommended architecture standards related to on-premise applications
Participates in on-call rotations, as needed
Provides technical support for non-production and production environments, including trouble shooting and remediation of technical issues
May work with third party vendors and software companies
Researches and answers technical application, database, server, and security configuration questions and provides on-call support after hours as defined by the application support requirements
Works with 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 database administrators, security, and systems administrators to provide performance tuning on application, database, server, and security settings and features
Appropriately use tools to efficiently manage code migrations, environment builds, testing, and implementation
Applies patches and delivers minor and major application upgrades
Participates in regular team retrospective events with a continuous improvement mindset
Identifies and recommends improvement opportunities, logs application administration requests, and delivers upon application administration assignments that improve the system solution
Shares application administration knowledge and provides cross-training and peer support
Participates in estimation and planning of future application administration work plans
Updates application administration documentation and procedures used to maintain applications, databases, servers, and security
Works with technical resources and functional/business analysts to understand application, database, server or security requirements and translates into technical or systems specifications for implementation
Configures application, database, server or security settings and features as required for project or enhancement activities
Provides implementation and ongoing support
Participates in application administration maintenance or implementation planning
Updates technical documentation to be used by application administration or support teams, with direction from senior or lead application administrator(s)
Participates in testing newly developed applications, integrations, systems, solutions, and upgrades of applications or application support tools
Follows best practice application administration and change management procedures
Participates in systems projects or enhancements, delivering upon assigned application administration tasks in alignment with project plans and estimates
Develops a broad knowledge of technology, equipment, and/or systems in the assigned application areas
Develops a broad knowledge of the latest technologies associated with on-premise application administrations
Participates in external technical application administration communities of practice with a goal of gaining technical knowledge
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
High School diploma and 1 year of related experience required
Excellent verbal and written communications skills required
Ability to work both independently and as part of a team required
Ability to participate in on-call rotations required
Preferred
Bachelor's degree preferred
Experience in higher education or healthcare field preferred
Experience with interface, networking, design, and relational database technologies preferred
Experience supporting Cloud and on premises applications preferred
Experience with multi-tier applications employing application and web servers preferred
Experience with project management from planning through implementation preferred
Ability to learn new technologies quickly and help team members embrace technology change preferred
Proven track record executing multiple work streams and producing consistent results preferred
Strong understanding of system/application administration activities preferred
Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL or related database experience preferred
Solid understanding of Web Server, App Server and Database interactivities preferred
Solid understanding of application infrastructure and architecture preferred
Company
University of Rochester
The University of Rochester is a private research university located in Rochester, New York.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$20.43MKey Investors
National Science FoundationUnitedHealthcareSociety to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
2023-09-25Grant· $18M
2023-07-26Grant· $0.07M
2022-09-20Grant· $0.05M
Leadership Team
David Linehan
Chief Executive Officer
Recent News
2025-12-04
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