Title of Position: Systems Engineer Consultant
Rate: open to w2 or corps
Location: 6th Ave /45 street, New York, NY 10036
Onsite Flexibility: Onsite 4 days a week. (1 remote)
Summary:
The ideal candidate will be part of a team responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, maintenance, and performance of all global system infrastructure, to ensure the availability, security, and consistent performance of our environment. This position is hands-on requiring solid technical skills, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The role will be both operations and engineering-focused, working with different technology teams to deliver core business initiatives.
Major Responsibilities and Activities:
Maintain operational excellence by keeping environment secure and up to date
Responsible for project tasks throughout the life cycle of application implementation following best practices and architectural guidelines
Provide support to back-office applications such as trading platforms, fund accounting systems, financial accounting systems
Responsible for various network hardware/software but biased towards the Windows/VMWare/Citrix and Azure environments, including both configuration design & implementation on customer-facing solutions
Advance knowledge of Azure cloud infrastructure and security
Responsible for updating and maintaining all documentation requested by management and will be tasked with improving such documentation as required
Provide trouble shooting and assisting help desk support group in resolving escalated issues.
Monitor and provide statistical reports on the health and operational status of all infrastructure systems; monitor system capacity utilization
Aid in capacity planning and performance monitoring to ensure that Infrastructure systems are meeting the needs of the business
Assist with various day to day management of server environment.
Experience with SOX or SSAE controls and reporting
Create and manage regulatory reports and KPIs
Minimum Requirements
Requires a minimum of 7 years of experience working within an IT infrastructure group, preferably with Financial experience in a trading environment
Ability to work under pressure, managing multiple tasks with accuracy and to meet demanding deadlines, possessing strong ethics and the ability to maintain confidential it
Advance knowledge of SCCM or similar platform used to keep systems up to date and package deployments
Extensive experience planning, designing, deploying, and maintaining Windows Servers, including Microsoft applications, such as SQL, Exchange and Active Directory
Advanced Active Directory experience is required such as group rights, file rights management, GPOs
Advance knowledge of Office 365, Azure-AD and related Microsoft services.
Experience managing and maintaining MS security services such as ATP and Intune
Experience with vulnerability scan platforms and remediation, such as Rapid 7
Experience with SEIM platforms, such as SumoLogic
Understanding of infrastructure security and authentication processes. SAML, Kerberos, RADIUS & MFA
Experience with privileged access management and privileged identity management
Day to Day management of monitoring platform and tailoring advance alerting & reports.
Advanced PowerShell scripting and working with code repositories and CI/CD pipelines
Root Cause Analysis And Troubleshooting Experience Is Required
Familiar with building and maintaining task scheduling platforms
Must maintain a sincere, polite, and respectful customer service attitude when working with the business
Ability to support multiple globally dispersed locations
Excellent communication, organization, and interpersonal skills
Beneficial Skills And Abilities
PowerShell and Azure devOps knowledge
Working knowledge of monitoring & Syslog platforms, such as Logic Monitor and SumoLogic.
Cisco UCS, VMWare and Pure knowledge
Rubrik and Rubrik Polaris experience
Familiar with Pager Duty.
Certification a plus.