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Senior Systems & Infrastructure Engineer

155k – 180kNew York, NYChicago, ILHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

Owns and evolves cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, observability, security, and networking platforms for a financial exchange. Requires 5-8 years experience with IaC tools like Terraform/Ansible, major cloud providers, SIEM/EDR, and operating in regulated fintech environments.

About the role

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure

  • Design, deploy, and maintain cloud environments across multiple tiers (development through production) using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
  • Manage container orchestration platforms including cluster lifecycle, autoscaling, ingress, persistent storage, and workload isolation
  • Implement and enforce cloud organization policies, IAM, and network security controls
  • Apply FinOps principles to monitor cloud spend, identify waste, and drive cost optimization across environments

Observability & Monitoring

  • Administer centralized log management and SIEM platforms, including index management, ingestion pipelines, and query performance tuning
  • Build and maintain operational dashboards covering application health, platform latency, infrastructure status, and security events
  • Instrument log and metric ingestion from cloud services, network infrastructure, SaaS tools, and application tiers
  • Identify and resolve data quality issues in aggregated metrics and pre-computed summaries
  • Evaluate, administer, and integrate SaaS-based monitoring and APM platforms for full-stack infrastructure and application performance visibility

Security & Identity

  • Operate endpoint detection and response (EDR) tooling across workstations and cloud workloads, including policy tuning, alert triage, and SIEM integration
  • Administer identity and access management (IAM/SSO) platforms: single sign-on, automated provisioning, MFA policies, and lifecycle automation for onboarding and offboarding
  • Enforce endpoint compliance via mobile device management (MDM) tooling, including configuration profiles and zero-touch provisioning
  • Support SOC 2 Type II evidence collection and continuous control monitoring

Networking

  • Manage zero-trust network overlays: access control policies, subnet routing, and log telemetry integration
  • Maintain DNS, TLS, and secure file transfer configurations for external connectivity
  • Manage and maintain modern enterprise firewalls and VPN solutions, including policy configuration, rule management, and ongoing optimization
  • Troubleshoot network issues across cloud virtual networks and hybrid connectivity

On-Call Rotation: Shared on-call rotation of one week per month, Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. CT.

Requirements

  • 5 to 8 years in systems or infrastructure engineering in a production environment
  • Deep experience with a major cloud provider (GCP or AWS) including compute, networking, IAM, and managed services
  • Container orchestration proficiency including workload management, RBAC, networking, and storage
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience using tools such as Terraform and Ansible
  • Hands-on experience with a centralized logging or SIEM platform including query development, dashboard authoring, and pipeline management
  • EDR platform administration including sensor deployment, policy management, and detection triage
  • IAM/SSO platform administration including app integrations, automated provisioning, and MFA enforcement
  • Experience managing enterprise firewalls and VPN solutions including policy configuration and rule management
  • Demonstrated experience leveraging generative AI tools to improve productivity, automate workflows, and solve operational problems
  • Comfort operating in a regulated financial services or fintech environment

Benefits

  • Health, vision and dental insurance
  • 401(k) match
  • Supplemental health and disability insurance
  • Unlimited vacation
  • Parental leave
Skills
TerraformAnsibleKubernetesGCPAWSSIEMEDRIAMSSOFirewallsVPNMDMFinOpsAPM
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