Tuesday, September 30
Banking Hall, London
Senior Systems Engineer Windows & Active Directory
Website Trading Technologies
Multi-asset platform for capital markets
We are looking for a driven and inventive Senior Systems Engineer to join our team. The Systems Engineering team architects, implements, and supports global hybrid compute and storage services for our development and production environments. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the infrastructure that supports our high-performance SaaS trading platform and automating the delivery of existing and new infrastructure services. As a Senior Windows Systems Engineer, you will lead efforts to design, implement, and manage security measures to protect our Windows-based systems and infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with internal teams to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our organization’s data and systems.
An ideal candidate is someone who has a passion for technology, automation, and innovation, bringing strong technical knowledge and experience of the entire infrastructure stack to support both industry-standard and in-house-built applications.
What Will You Be Involved With?
- Design, deploy, and maintain Active Directory environments, including forests, domains, trusts, DNS, DHCP, RDS, DFS and AD certificate services and Group Policy.
- Design, implement, and manage security solutions for Windows server environments, including Active Directory, Group Policy, and server hardening.
- Implement and manage Entra AD for single sign-on (SSO) authentication.
- Monitor and optimize Active Directory performance, troubleshoot issues, and perform regular system maintenance.
- Implement and maintain high-availability and disaster recovery solutions for Active Directory services.
- Participate in support of large-scale Linux, Windows, SAN storage, and virtualization environments (e.g. VMware, Nutanix)
- Architect, Manage and maintain a global cloud compute footprint (e.g. AWS, Azure)
- Perform provisioning and automation enhancements via scripting (e.g. Powershell, Bash and Python) and centralized management tools (e.g. Chef)
- Facilitate improvements to platform stability and site reliability by collaborating with and working closely alongside internal teams and stakeholders across the organization
- Act as a hands-on technical advisor and resource to team members
- Troubleshoot enterprise-level hardware, including high-performance overclock systems
- Assist deployment and software development teams in ensuring the seamless transition of software from development to production
- Participate in weekly on-call rotation for the purposes of routine scheduled maintenance and deployments
What Will You Bring to the Table?
- Team player who is comfortable working in a highly collaborative environment and possesses excellent customer service, verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, and at least 5+ years of relevant work experience
- Operating systems management skills with an expert understanding of Windows Server operating systems (2016/2019/2022) and related technologies. Familiarity with Linux (RHEL/CentOS) a plus
- Proven experience (5+ years) as an Active Directory Engineer, Systems Administrator, or similar role in an enterprise environment.
- Expertise in designing, implementing, and managing Active Directory environments with a focus on identity management best practices (e.g. SSO, SAML, MFA and FIDO2 keys)
- Experience with centralized management of Windows (e.g. Chef, Puppet)
- Experience supporting virtualized environments on centralized storage, e.g. AWS services and infrastructure, Nutanix, VMware vSphere
- Proficiency with scripting languages, with an emphasis on Powershell; DevOps, CICD and Deployment a plus; Python and bash scripting a plus
- Solid grasp of IT security best practices and familiarity with compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, DORA, GDPR).
- Comfortability with performance and hardware troubleshooting, including high-performance compute
- Strong background in networking concepts and routing protocols
- Ability to work on-call or weekends as necessary
What We Bring to the Table
Compensation:
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance
- Health & Financial Security:
- Pension contributions
- Time Off & Flexibility:
- Enjoy the best of both worlds: the energy and collaboration of in-person work, combined with the convenience and focus of remote days. This is a hybrid position requiring three days of in-office collaboration per week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remaining two days. Our hybrid model is designed to balance individual flexibility with the benefits of in-person collaboration, enhanced team cohesion, spontaneous innovation, hands-on mentorship opportunities and strengthens our company culture.
- 25 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, with the option to roll over unused days.
- One dedicated day per year for volunteering.
- Two professional development days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development.
- An additional PTO day added during milestone anniversary years.
- Generous parental leave for all parents (including adoptive parents).
- Work-Life Support & Resources:
- Budget for tech accessories, including monitors, headphones, keyboards, and other office equipment.
- Milestone anniversary bonuses.
- Wellness & Lifestyle Perks:
- Subsidy contributions toward gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted healthcare premiums, healthy meal delivery programs, or smoking cessation support).
- Our Culture:
- Forward-thinking, culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion.
Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.
Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.
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