Jenzabar
Application & Network Administrator II
🇺🇸 Hybrid - New York, NY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $70K - $82K
💻 Information Technology
🗓️ June 19th, 2025
Blackbaud
DHCP
Interfolio
Edtech.com's Summary
Jenzabar is hiring an Application & Network Administrator II to manage and support their client’s application and network systems. The role involves overseeing network equipment, maintaining databases and enterprise software, managing integrations, and collaborating with various stakeholders to implement strategic technology plans and ensure smooth IT operations.
Highlights
- Manage the client’s application and network ecosystem, including firewalls, DNS, DHCP, and VLAN configurations
- Support enterprise systems such as Jenzabar, EMS, Blackbaud, and Microsoft O365
- Maintain databases, scripts, stored procedures, and reports on the Report server
- Oversee network equipment patches, updates, backups, and restores
- Collaborate with administration, faculty, and staff, acting as liaison for support escalations
- Assist with business continuity planning and strategic technology initiatives
- Require 4-6 years experience in application and network systems roles with Windows or Linux and virtualized environment expertise
- Strong problem-solving, root cause analysis, and communication skills needed
- Pay range $70,000 to $82,000 annually, eligible for bonuses and benefits including health insurance and 401K
- Position requires up to 25% travel and primarily supports a client located in Manhattan, New York
Application & Network Administrator II Full Description
For over four decades, the higher education experts at Jenzabar have been helping colleges and universities across the world thrive through multiple services. The Jenzabar culture is one that fosters an entrepreneurial environment, where employees are encouraged to be creative, work hard, and have a great time while doing so. We believe in open doors, asking tough questions, respecting each other, and surpassing our clients’ expectations every step of the way. It’s an enjoyable place to be, with casual dress and a relaxed atmosphere.
Mission Statement:
We believe everyone is a masterpiece with great work to do on Earth. Jenzabar’s mission is to create pathways to empower all to know who they are, what work they are destined to do, and how they can unlock their full potential – at home, at work, and in the world!
Position Summary:
The Managed Resources Application & Network Administrator will have the proven ability to work both independently and within a team to achieve results. Should have the ability to quickly analyze problems and to work cooperatively with the assigned client and other Jenzabar associates to determine the problem, verify potential solutions, and to solve the problem in a professional, courteous, and accurate manner with an enough level of ongoing communication and follow-up.
The Application & Network Administrator will be dedicated to a client site located in Manhattan, New York. The position is mostly remote but will require one to two days a week on campus.
Expectations:
- Oversight of application and network ecosystem
- Support enterprise systems (Jenzabar, EMS, Blackbaud, RaiserEdge, FinancialEdge, Docuware, Handshake, Interfolio, Panopto, O365 etc.)
- Manage existing integrations for all administrative applications
- Manage scripts and stored procedures
- Maintain existing databases
- Oversee network equipment and firewalls (configuration, patches, updates, and troubleshooting)
- Manage external backups and restore data and SQL database
- Install, configure, update certificates for all equipment
- Configure and maintain DNS, DHCP, VLAN
- Assist with implementing security measures
- Create and maintain reports on the Report server
- Collaborate and communicate with administration, faculty, and staff
- Maintain relationships with software and hardware vendors
- Act as liaison between client and Jenzabar for support ticket escalation and resolution
- Assist client with their business continuity plan efforts
- Collaborate with the client on establishing an institution wide technology governance process
- Assist with a strategic technology plan that supports the client’s strategic objectives
- Establish and maintain a mutually agreed-upon Annual Tactical Plan for administrative and network systems, that supports the client’s Strategic Technology Plan
- Best effort support and management of existing administrative applications that support business operations
- Collaborate with client’s senior-most IT person or their designee to propose technology policies and procedures
- Oversee the collaborative development, and maintenance, of written standard operating procedures (SOP) for key business operations
- Assist the client with planning and implementation of Administrative System and Network technology projects
Responsibilities:
- Modify student, faculty and staff scripts to accept incoming and outgoing users on semester basis, request by OAA, system or policy changes
- Configure and maintain firewalls
- Oversee security and apply fixes, patches, updates to network equipment and firewalls
- Manage external backups and restore data and SQL database
- Assist client with their business continuity plan efforts
- Manage existing integrations for all administrative applications
- Support enterprise systems (Jenzabar, EMS, Blackbaud, RaiserEdge, FinancialEdge, Docuware, Handshake, Interfolio, Panopto, O365 etc.)
- Maintain existing databases
- Install, configure, update certificates for all equipment
- Configure and maintain DNS, DHCP, VLAN
- Manage scripts and stored procedures
- Create and maintain reports on the Report server
Qualifications:
- 4-6 years in an application and network systems role
- Experience with Web Servers, application servers and mission critical applications
- Windows or Linux experience
- Experience working in a virtualized environment
- Problem Solving and troubleshooting skills, including ability to perform root cause analysis design preventative activities
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Able to quickly learn new software setup requirements, configuration rules, update procedures, etc. (and to then train other users, whether the customer or internal Jenzabar associates)
- Take responsibility for and show initiative in learning how to use/manage systems more effectively
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
The pay range for this position is $70,000-82,000/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, geographic location, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus in addition to a full range of benefits. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed.
Benefits
Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Paid Vacation, Paid Sick Days, Paid Parental Leave, Paid Holidays, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, 401K, Educational Assistance
Jenzabar does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, sex, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetics, genetic markers and carrier status, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, military service, veteran status, or any other status protected by state and federal laws.
Please Note: Jenzabar does not sponsor applicants for work visas.
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