As a leader and innovator in the snack food industry for over 50 years, J&J Snack Foods provides branded snack foods to foodservice and retail supermarket outlets across the U.S. Its products include such icons as SUPERPRETZEL, ICEE, and Dippin’ Dots along with other key brands like LUIGI’S Real Italian Ice, The Funnel Cake Factory Funnel Cakes, and Hola Churros. J&J also has a strong presence in bakery providing cakes, cookies, and pies to some of the largest grocery and convenience retailers in industry. Our company continues to deliver record sales led by a talented team and a commitment to “Fun Served Here”.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Senior Manager – Systems Administration & Support Services is responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, maintenance, and support of the organization’s IT infrastructure and end-user support services. This role ensures optimal performance, security, and reliability of systems and services while leading a team of system administrators, IT support specialists, and engineers.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of systems administrators and IT support staff.
- Establish performance goals, conduct evaluations, and implement professional development plans.
- Manage resource allocation, including staff scheduling, project assignments, and ticket/workload distribution.
- Oversee administration of servers (Windows/Linux), storage, virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V), and cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS).
- Ensure effective configuration, maintenance, and monitoring of critical systems.
- Maintain system documentation, disaster recovery plans, and configuration management processes.
- Oversee IT support operations, ensuring timely resolution of incidents and service requests.
- Implement ITIL-based processes for service management, including incident, problem, and change management.
- Responsible for overseeing and coordinating after-hours support for critical incidents or system issues to minimize downtime and maintain business continuity. This may involve participation in an on-call rotation and the management of after-hours support personnel or escalation procedures to swiftly address and resolve urgent technical problems.
- Develop KPIs and service level agreements (SLAs) for the support team and monitor performance.
- Assist in the development and execution of IT strategy and roadmap aligned with business goals.
- Create and manage budgets for systems and support operations, including hardware/software procurement.
- Prepare reports and presentations for executive leadership and stakeholders.
- Ensuring system and support activities comply with internal policies and external regulations (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST).
- Work with security teams on vulnerability management, access control, and auditing.
- Participate in business continuity and risk management planning.
- Work closely with business units to understand and support their technical needs.
- Act as a liaison between infrastructure, security, applications, and user services teams.
- Lead vendor and contract management for systems and support services.
- Strong knowledge of systems administration, infrastructure, and IT support services.
- Experience managing hybrid on-prem/cloud environments
- Familiarity with ITSM platforms and ITIL framework.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:Required Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology
- 8+ years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure, systems administration, and support
Disclaimer: This position description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the team member. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
EEO Statement: J&J Snack Foods Corp.is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discriminatory employment actions against, and treatment of, employees and applicants for employment based on actual or perceived Federal, State and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, alienage, religion or creed, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, genetic disposition or characteristics, disability or veteran's status, sex offenses, prior record of arrest or conviction, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, status as a victim or witness of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking and unemployment status.
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What We Do
J&J Snack Foods Corp. (NASDAQ: JJSF) is a leader and innovator in the snack food industry, providing nutritional and affordable branded niche snack foods and beverages to foodservice and retail supermarket outlets. Our portfolio of products include soft pretzels, frozen beverages, frozen juice treats and desserts, stuffed sandwiches, burritos, churros, fruit pies, funnel cakes, cookies and bakery goods under 25 assorted brand names. Manufactured and distributed nationwide, our principal products include SUPERPRETZEL, PRETZEL FILLERS and other soft pretzels, ICEE, SLUSH PUPPIE and ARCTIC BLAST frozen beverages, LUIGI’S Real Italian Ice, MINUTE MAID* frozen juice bars and ices, WHOLE FRUIT fruit bars, sorbet and organic juice tubes, , MARY B’S biscuits and dumplings, DADDY RAY’S fig and fruit bars, TIO PEPE’S and CALIFORNIA CHURROS churros, THE FUNNEL CAKE FACTORY funnel cakes, and several cookie brands within COUNTRY HOME BAKERS. For more information, please visit us at www.jjsnack.com.
*MINUTE MAID is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company.
