Sr Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Engineer
Location: Hybrid- NYC on-site 3x per week
Type: Full time direct hire

Must have a breadth of cloud experience and understands infrastructure as code.

Major Responsibilities and Activities

• 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
• Work with Infrastructure team to design migration path for IaaS.
• Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the firm’s IaaS.
• 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
• Diagnose and perform remedial actions within area of Subject Matter Expertise
• 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.

Minimum Requirements

• Requires a minimum of 7-10 years of experience working within an IT infrastructure group, preferably with Financial experience in a trading environment
• Experience designing and building out Azure globally using ARM, for Financial firms a plus.
• Working knowledge of cloud connectivity for offices worldwide.
• Knowledge of Azure Devops.

• Extensive experience planning, designing, deploying, and maintaining Windows Servers, including Microsoft applications, such as SQL, Exchange, SCCM, SharePoint, 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.
• Day to Day management of monitoring platform and tailoring advance alerting & reports.
• Strong systems administration/engineering skills in a large heterogeneous environment
• Advanced Power shell scripting skills.

• Experience monitoring overall health of systems
• Root Cause analysis experience is required

• Familiar with building and maintaining task scheduling platforms.

• Must be willing to work weekends and evenings and be on call as required; the responsibilities are for a 7x24 IT operation.
• Ability to work under pressure, managing multiple tasks with accuracy and to meet demanding deadlines, possessing strong ethics and the ability to maintain confidentiality
• Working closely with Application Vendors to deploy, implement and manage systems.
• Must maintain a sincere, polite and respectful customer service attitude when working with the business
• Possess the ability to work with the application development team to provide solutions to users

• Ability to support multiple globally dispersed locations

• Excellent communication, organization, and interpersonal skills

Beneficial Skills and Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of Citrix and Netscalers, Azure cloud VPX a plus.  
• Python and other scripting skill sets.
• Working knowledge of container management.
• Working knowledge of monitoring & Syslog platforms, such as Logicmonitor, Solarwinds, and Sumologic.