Boston’s most successful quant trading firm is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join their firm. The Infrastructure Engineering role is responsible for the firm’s core infrastructure platforms across a hybrid environment that includes on‑premises data centers, public cloud services, and SaaS solutions.
This position leads a team of infrastructure engineers accountable for both day‑to‑day operational excellence and the delivery of strategic initiatives that modernize our systems. It will play a large role in shaping and evolving core technical services.
In addition to operating core compute, storage, network, identity, and platform services, this role will also take part in projects such as the consolidation of our on-premises DR data center, continued expansion of M365 services, modernization of computer and file services solutions as well as lifecycle management of critical infrastructure technologies.
The Infrastructure Engineering role is responsible for planning, directing and coordinating all activities of the core Infrastructure platforms, and will work closely with internal teams to drive key initiatives. The role is expected to drive increased adoption of automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across technology stacks.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Own the design, operation, and continuous improvement of a hybrid infrastructure environment spanning:
On premises data center technologies (EMC Storage, Dell servers, VMWare ESX and VDI, Rubrik backups, server OS, etc)
Establish and maintain operational standards for monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, patching, and lifecycle management
Lead the continuing journey toward Infrastructure as Code (IaC) that the team is already on
Assess, refine and prioritize team projects and responsibilities to end users leveraging Jira and Jira Service Desk (Incident Management and Tier 3 support requests)
Developing and Enforcing IT standards, procedures, policies, and best practices to the infrastructure team
Security focus to confirm that best practices are followed and remediation where necessary is applied in a timely manner
Participate in audits (SOC1) and client inquiries as required
Qualifications
Prior hands on technical experience is a requirement for this position
5+ years managing Infrastructure systems teams in a production capacity
5+ years relevant experience designing, implementing and managing related Infrastructure platforms such as: Microsoft Active Directory, M365, Microsoft ADFS, VMWare vSphere/vCenter/ESX Technology stack
2+ years relevant experience promoting DevOps, SRE or platform engineering practices
Experience working with/designing for Disaster Recovery solutions (Zerto or VMWare SRM, Microsoft AG, etc). We are presently in a multi-site/hybrid that is constantly evolving and changing
Ability to develop long term strategic Infrastructure enterprise goals and create a technology roadmap
Ability to communicate well within and across teams; foster relationships throughout the organization, and build trust amongst peers through demonstrated strong job performance
In addition, experience with any of the following would be valuable:
Experience with AWS or Azure based technology implementations as an owner/architect/builder
Solid understanding of multi-site design and hybrid designs. Knowledge of application flow and systems design is desirable
Development or automation background specific to Infrastructure as code
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology and Engineering
Industries
IT System Custom Software Development, Financial Services, and Technology, Information and Media
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