Senior Server Engineer (Windows Infrastructure)

Senior Server Engineer (Windows Infrastructure)

Location: Jersey City, NJ (Onsite)
Duration: 12-Month W2 Contract
Pay Rate: $70–$80/hour (Depending on Experience)
Hiring Company: Russell Tobin
Client: Confidential Global Financial Services Firm

Position Overview

Russell Tobin is seeking a Senior Server Engineer to support a leading global financial services organization. This role is responsible for architecting, supporting, and optimizing a large-scale production Windows server environment within a mission-critical trading infrastructure.

The engineer will play a key role in performance monitoring, infrastructure strategy, operational support, and platform resiliency across enterprise Windows systems.

Position Objectives

• Architect and provide expert-level support for the production Windows server environment.
• Maintain proactive performance monitoring utilizing enterprise monitoring tools.
• Support day-to-day operations, administration, and infrastructure initiatives.
• Ensure stability, performance, and availability of all Windows servers and related platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Support a trading environment consisting of Windows Server 2016/2019/2022.
• Participate in planning and implementation of new infrastructure projects.
• Proactively monitor virtual environments for capacity, risk, and performance issues.
• Build and support Microsoft Failover Clusters and stretch clusters.
• Maintain Windows environments across the Americas region.
• Partner with vendors and global internal teams to ensure platform standards compliance.
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Maintain high reliability, availability, and resiliency across systems.
• Provide Level 1–3 production support.
• Perform proactive system monitoring using tools such as Geneos and Dynatrace.
• Execute system upgrades, patching, and security remediation.
• Collaborate with application teams to design and deploy infrastructure solutions.
• Lead project implementations across business lines.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and weekend support as required.
• Conduct daily health checks on critical systems.
• Follow change management and incident management procedures.
• Ensure systems align with enterprise standards and best practices.
• Own incident and problem management resolution.
• Maintain security compliance across infrastructure.
• Manage and maintain accurate system inventory and documentation.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of Windows Server engineering experience.
• Expert knowledge of Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012.
• Strong expertise in:
  • Active Directory
  • DNS, DHCP/WINS, Registries
  • Microsoft clustering technologies (Failover Clustering, Load Balancing)
• VMware vSphere experience (vCenter, SRM).
• Strong SAN/EMC storage knowledge, including SRDF.
• Experience installing Windows Server 2016+ on enterprise hardware (Dell, IBM, blade servers).
• Strong performance management and capacity planning experience.
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, SNMP, subnetting, routing).
• Database exposure (SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase) and MQ Series.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hyper-V experience.
• IIS and .NET administration.
• F5 load balancer experience.
• Dynatrace monitoring experience.
• Experience in financial services or trading environments.

Pride Global offers eligible employee''s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

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