IPC is a fintech company that focuses on the human element. With a global presence, we support local markets with our advanced cloud-based trading communications and managed connectivity solutions.
Through our portfolio of communications and connectivity solutions, we focus on solving business challenges and adapting to regulatory changes in the fast-paced global financial markets. This enables our clients to maintain consistent market access, a strong competitive advantage, and enhanced operational efficiency.
Join a team that is dedicated to delivering groundbreaking products and making a significant impact on our clients’ success.
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DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Virtualization experience including:
• Deployment, Clustering, Configuration, Networking, Maintenance, Backup/restore
• VSAN architecture, implementation, and maintenance
• Health and performance monitoring
• Experience with important system services incl. DHCP, LDAP, SSSD, NTP, NFS, SMB, Active Directory.
• Experience with industry-standard tools/software/DCIM for managing labs/infrastructure e.g. Sunbird.
• Understanding of Power and HVAC distribution and planning (being able to identify hot spots, power overload of backup systems and overall power distribution).
• Windows system administration experience via both local and remote, incl. user admin, AD, deployment/upgrade/patching/administration, incl. virtual desktops.
• Basic PKI and Certificate administration (device and CA level).
• SAN/NAS hardware and configuration, incl. RAID, ZFS and basic storage algorithm concepts.
• Strong MSOffice skills for cataloging and equipment tracing/utilization.
• Experience with KVM hypervisor with both RHEL and Ubuntu Linux.
• Automated deployment experience (Ansible or equivalent).
• Infrastructure monitoring/alerting experience (e.g. NMS, Nagios, WhatsUp Gold).
• Experience with industry standard task management tools, e.g. Jira.

ROLE OVERVIEW:

As a senior Infrastructure engineer, you will be located in Fairfield working with a small team of infrastructure engineers in multiple locations who are responsible for managing the complete IT infrastructure within the IPC R&D org. You will be a hands-on contributor, working collaboratively with your peers or independently on tasks with appropriate self-motivation. You will be tasked with understanding business requirements and objectives and delivering solutions under tight schedules while following established processes. You will be expected to have strong technical and soft skills along with excellent verbal and written communication skills. To ensure effective communication, you must be comfortable utilizing team communication and collaboration tools and working full time with a minimum of 4 days a week in the Fairfield office, or as needed.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:

• Physical server rack & stack, cabling, configuration, maintenance/admin, firmware/BIOS, iDRAC access.
• Strong experience in Network administration activities -
• Rack & stack, maintain and troubleshoot network infrastructure such as routers, switches, firewalls, wireless controllers & access points.
• Configuration of IPs, subnets, gateways, routing, VLANs, licensing.
• Strong knowledge of network and power cabling strategies, distance management, repeaters, POE standards, copper and fiber.
• Experience using Linux to accomplish daily tasks (RedHat Enterprise Linux preferred).
• Basic understanding of security fundamentals to manage security risks of existing environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills, including the ability to look for standard as well as non-standard solutions to problems.
• Flexibility in work hours as some work could occur after hours and in support of other teams
• 8+ years of experience in relevant areas.
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Technology, Systems & Network Engineering, or Computer Science is a plus.