Eze Software is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer.  The position will be located In Boston, Chicago, or New York City and report to the Associate Director of IT Engineering in Boston.  Functionally, the position will be to part of the Server/Virtualization team, with other members of the team based in Boston, Chicago, New York, and Hyderabad.

The Senior Systems Engineer will work with others on the team to support the firm’s production server infrastructure (physical, virtual and storage) and be responsible for its performance, reliability and maintainability. The team works regularly with development and business personnel to identify performance or other problems and assure quality of service for our clients.

Windows and Linux server experience, strong troubleshooting skills, and a proven track record of automating repetitive or iterative processes is required.  Experience with cloud providers and CI/CD Pipelines is strongly desired.

The successful candidate will be able to translate requirements (including already-configured systems) into a set of deployment and configuration processes that are robust and scalable. A background in development or software engineering would be helpful, but is not required.

The Senior Systems Engineer will be operating in a time-sensitive environment, and strict change-control must be adhered to at all times. Occasional after-hours or weekend work will be required. We foster a collaborative environment where communication, documentation and teamwork are stressed.

Job Functions:

    Administration, monitoring, and support of Windows and Linux servers and the SAN and Virtualization environments   (EMC, VMWare, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure)

    Design, deploy, and implement server and network infrastructure and ensure a secure systems environment

    Participating in major system engineering projects

    Providing 3rd tier support for internal or product-related technical issues

Qualifications:

    5-7 years of professional experience in Windows/Linux system administration and engineering

    PowerShell or other shell scripting experience

    Experience with Active Directory in a multi-site, multi-forest environment

    Experience with orchestration and automation tools (i.e. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, PowerShell DSC)

    Experience with provisioning tools and CI/CD workflows (i.e. Terraform, Packer, Jenkins)

    Knowledge of system clustering and high-availability
 

Who We Are:

​​We are a trusted and proven partner to the investment community.  We complement our award winning investment workflow technology with expert global customer service.  We pride ourselves on fully understanding each client’s unique needs and advising them on best practices and processes to maximize their operational and investment alpha.  Our team is made up of more than 1,000 global employees in 11 locations worldwide.  We are headquartered in Boston, with offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, London, New York, Rio De Janeiro, San Francisco, Singapore, Stamford, and Sydney.

Our Culture:

We are a highly dedicated team of innovators and experts who love to collaborate on the cutting edge.  We service our clients’ unique and growing needs with highly configurable, expansive, and integrated products for the entire investment process and community and we are never satisfied until our customers are delighted.  We celebrate this passion and commitment by fostering a culture that promotes innovation, growth, communication and achievement from the bottom up.  We nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and welcome productive debated.  We encourage open communications and upward feedback, we learn quickly from our mistakes, challenge the status quo – all while remaining accountable to our colleagues and clients.  We also understand work is a big part of life, so having fun and celebrating hard work is core within our culture.