Senior Systems Engineer, Black Diamond

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Tennessee - Remote

Get To Know The Team:

Join the company ranked #1 on the list of Best Places to Work in Jacksonville and Northeast Florida. SS&C Advent, a leading provider of award-winning software and services for the global investment management industry, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer in Jacksonville. The Engineer must have excellent communication and analytical skills. They should possess the enthusiasm and entrepreneurial skills needed to grow with our company.

Black Diamond Wealth Platform provides solutions for the wealth management process. The core product retrieves and reconciles investment accounting data and provides a feature-rich, Internet-based application to analyze performance. Black Diamond Wealth Platform helps wealth managers and their clients by providing unbiased, outsourced investment performance reporting.

What You Will Get To Do:

• Participate in a continuous improvement environment by building, maintaining, and troubleshooting our rapidly expanding infrastructure and working closely with technology teams

• Deploy new physical and virtual servers, storage, and networking within data center environments

• Provide daily operational support and administration of production and non-production environments, including management and monitoring of all systems and infrastructure in our SaaS environment

• Keep network and systems secure and running efficiently

• Write and maintain custom automation to increase system efficiency, quality, and reduce human intervention on any task

• Participate in the engineering, planning, upgrade and maintenance of hosted Infrastructure

• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation and perform after-hour maintenance. Don’t worry, this requirement is applied thoughtfully with respect to work life balance.

What You Will Bring:

• A great attitude and drive to produce high-quality work.

• Professional, responsive, and able to exercise sound judgement.

• A minimum of 2 years as a systems engineer or equivalent role

• Skilled in scripting and automation with PowerShell and/or Ansible and RESTful APIs.

• Excellent understanding of Windows Server and Linux operating systems running on Intel-based rack and blade servers

• Proficiency with Microsoft technologies, including Active Directory, IIS, and MSSQL

• Proficiency with VMware, OpenShift, or comparable virtualization technology in the data center

• Skilled in troubleshooting software and hardware issues

• Experience designing and supporting highly available application infrastructure

• Knowledge of computer hardware, software, applications, and systems administration in the data center

• Solid understanding of proper communication and collaboration involving changes, issues, and process

• Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and adapt easily to new technologies and ideas

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

• Experience working in an environment where availability, scalability, security, compliance, change management, documentation, and knowledge sharing are operating imperatives

• An eagerness to learn enough about whatever tools or tricks are needed to get the job done

Helpful Qualifications:

• Experience with Linux performance tuning and troubleshooting in clustered and virtualized environments

• Experience with OpenShift Virtualization and K8s or equivalent containerization technologies.

• Familiarity with the fundamentals of Linux scripting languages

• Experience with Linux network tools and firewall configuration

• Skilled in scripting and automation with PowerShell, Ansible, and RESTful APIs.

• Experience with hosted/cloud-based solutions

• Experience with JIRA or other work tracking systems

• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)

• Experience with Dell PowerEdge or equivalent server hardware.

• Experience with vSAN, ISCSI, or Fiber Channel SANs

• Experience with management and administration of Palo Alto and Juniper SRX firewalls, Cisco Nexus Switches, Dell EMC Switching, F5 LTM or equivalent networking technologies

• Experience with Palo Alto XDR endpoint protection.

• Knowledge of networking concepts and services with ability to troubleshoot (DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SSL, DHCP, FTP, DFS, routing, switching, firewalls)

• Experience with modern software development methodologies and processes (continuous integration, version control systems, automated application deployment, etc.)

• Associate or Bachelor’s Degree in computer-related fields, technical certifications related to responsibilities, or equivalent professional experience

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.