IT Administrator - (Server/Backup)

Position Type : Technology

Date Posted : 2 / 24 / 2025

Location :

Technology Support Services Center

Date Available : Available Now

Closing Date : Until Filled

REPORTS TO : IT Manager

WORK YEAR : Full-time, 260 days per year; 8 hours per day; 8 : 00 a.m. - 4 : 45 p.m.

WORK CALENDAR : 260 day Calendar

CLASSIFICATION : ROPE Technical, Exempt : C-4-3

SALARY RANGE : $83,914 to $98,122

BENEFITS : Benefits available for regular positions working an average of 30 hours per week.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

The following duties are normal for this position. These are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Other duties may be required and assigned.

• Primary Support for IT Infrastructure : Serve as the primary administrator for the Rochester Public Schools IT infrastructure, including both virtual and physical servers, storage systems, and the network environment, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Backup and Restoration Management : Oversee the backup strategy, ensuring regular testing of file and server restorations, and ensuring strict adherence to service-level agreement (SLA) requirements. This responsibility is critical and cannot be delegated, making it a key aspect of the role.
• Virtualized Environments Management : Manage and maintain the district's virtualized environments using VMware, ensuring that virtual machines (VMs) are optimized, secure, and compliant with district standards.
• Physical Infrastructure and Storage Oversight : Oversee and manage physical servers, NAS storage systems, and backup storage, ensuring reliability, redundancy, and continuous operation.
• Endpoint Security and Vulnerability Administration : Oversee strategies for endpoint administration. Assist in managing and enhancing endpoint security, vulnerability assessment, and mitigation, ensuring devices and servers are safeguarded from emerging threats.
• Cloud Service Administration : Implement and co-manage cloud-based services, including Microsoft Intune, for device management and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that cloud resources are effectively integrated and secure.
• Security and Vulnerability Management : Perform regular patching, updates, and vulnerability management across the infrastructure, ensuring systems adhere to the latest security standards and compliance regulations.
• On-Call Support : Provide on-call support for server infrastructure during both business hours and after hours, ensuring continuous availability and high performance.
• Incident Response and Issue Resolution : Respond promptly to outages and system issues across various school building sites, resolving server and storage-related problems and minimizing downtime to maintain high availability.
• Collaboration and Cross-Departmental Coordination : Collaborate with other departments to understand IT requirements, provide input for capacity planning, and support infrastructure upgrades.
• Helpdesk and Maintenance Support : Assist the Network Services team with helpdesk ticket management, including resolving customer service issues, providing server maintenance, and contributing to data center operations.
• Strategic Infrastructure Planning : Contribute to the district's long-term strategic planning for network expansion, systems integrations, and infrastructure upgrades, ensuring scalability and future growth

Job Requirements : Minimum Qualifications :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and / or ability required.

Job Requirements : Skills and Abilities :

Physical Requirements :

Commitment to Equity :

Rochester Public Schools is committed to diversifying its workforce to better reflect the community we serve. We believe the practices used in recruiting, interviewing, hiring, supporting, and promoting staff must include and honor, at every level, those who represent the diverse identities of our schools and community.

Common and Shared Accountabilities for All Positions

Employees of the Rochester Public School District #535 are expected to support the goals, model and promote an environment that is respectful for all, and work collaboratively with other staff to focus on the needs of the learner. A quality, customer focus that conveys a welcome attitude, an adaptability to change, and a desire for continuous improvement is also expected of all employees. In addition, staff are to respect confidential matters, encourage a safe and secure environment throughout the schools, and be dependable and accountable employees.

District Information : To learn more about Rochester Public Schools, visit www.rochesterschools.org

Salary : $83,914 - $98,122