Systems Engineer at Orange Schools
Orange, NJ
$50,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Orange, NJ
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on infrastructure role within a school district's IT environment, covering the installation, configuration, and ongoing support of workstations, servers, and related hardware and software across Windows, Cisco telephony, and Apple platforms. Day-to-day work spans LAN/WAN administration, system upgrades, and diagnosing and resolving hardware, software, and infrastructure issues. Suited to candidates with at least three years of network maintenance experience and a relevant degree.
Mid level · 3+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,600 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 540–3,900
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $122,015 (middle half $98,091–$145,542). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting is for a K-12 school district in Orange, NJ (Orange Public Schools, orange.k12.nj.us), which falls within the New York-Newark-Jersey City CBSA.
A Bachelor of Science degree is explicitly required; a Master's degree is listed as preferred.
A technology certification from an accredited institution is listed as preferred, not required — no specific certification is named.
The role covers Microsoft Windows, Cisco telephony, and Apple environments per the job description narrative; these are the only named technologies and are treated as hard gates given the role's core scope.
The starting salary is stated as $50,000 with no upper range provided; max is set equal to min to reflect the single figure given.
The posting title is 'Systems Engineer' but the actual duties — installing, configuring, and maintaining workstations, servers, LAN/WAN infrastructure, and telephony — are squarely network/systems administration (15-1244), not software development.
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