Location: New York,NY, USA
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Senior Windows Server Administrator - High Frequency Trading
Permanent contract| New York| IT (Information Technology) **Senior Windows Server Administrator - High Frequency Trading**
New York, United States Permanent contract IT (Information Technology) ** Responsibilities**
Within the system administration team, you will onboard the Level 3 windows server support team. Dedicated to a feature team you will be responsible for supporting our Electronic market making activities and delivering their projects. You will be overseeing a scope of about 800 servers. You will be required to deal with configuration management and demonstrate industrialization skills to ensure operational stability of the scope.
**Main Responsibilities**
* Work integrated in an agile organized team to deliver support and projects on our Electronic market making servers
* Follow up on Clients requests and incidents. Work with them as a business partner in total transparency
* Propose innovative and industrial solutions to automatize your repetitive tasks and improve teams efficiency
* Participate in the common automation effort by collaborating actively with the various feature teams
* Manage the activity based on ITIL Framework (Change management, Incident/Request management)
* Onboard the teams routine and participate in overtime operations. Most of the electronic market making maintenance must be done outside of business hours.
* Partner with the Windows Server chapter team to ensure compliance of your servers, as well as making sure the support team can handle them when you are busy or away.
* Work with the Global electronic market making support team to align to the standards and contribute with your expertise.
**Areas of development**
* Get familiar with our High frequency trading configurations and specific
* Work on cutting edge technologies and bring your expertise to improve our environment and performances
* Scrum Method is at the heart of our teams organization, get onboarded and learn about it.
* Get involved with API development for the automation of our IT operations. PowerShell is required, Python is a plus
* Collaborate in the development of the electronic market making business together with the feature team. Bring your point of view on the features and products.
* Work on a 3500+ server scope (which includes the 800 mentioned). Work in an international group.
**Experience Needed**
* Knowledge on Windows systems performance tuning
* Knowledge on High performance best practices
* Management of Windows servers and Microsoft administrative solutions
* Strong PowerShell Scripting
**Required Technologies**
* PowerShell / Python
* System performance tuning
* Kernel bypass drivers ( MCore )
* Microsoft solutions
+ SCCM
+ WinRM
+ Active Directory
* Relevant network knowledge
**Knowledgeable on**
* Automation Techologies : APIs, Orchestrators
* HP / DELL x86 Hardware
* Symantec Antivirus
* Symantec Netbackup
**Desired / Plus**
* Agile method: Kanban or/and Scrum
* Curiosity, thinking out of the box, challenging mindset
**Functional Expertise**
* Ability to work with a team and in an agile environment.
* Ability to fulfill clients request and challenge the established processes
* Ability to use agile team resources to deliver the project as quickly as possible
**BUSINESS INSIGHT**
Global Technical Services (GTS) is the infrastructure organization supporting all entities in the Americas for all infrastructure technology requirements including:
* Workstations including computers, telephones and email
* Data centers hosting
* Networks/telecommunications
* End user computing services
* Market Data administration infrastructure
* Disaster Recovery Planning
GTS various fields of expertise enable the organization to:
* Be a major player in the Group's Digital Transition
* Ensure the 24/7 quality and continuity of our infrastructures and their resilience to incidents
* Advise/accompany business lines and functional divisions through their own transformation
* Provide diversified/innovative service offer that is customized to the requirements of our internal/external partners