Position : Enterprise Platform Specialist – Windows/Virtualization
Team: Enterprise Windows and Virtualization
Department: Techops
Job Summary
The Windows and Virtualization Specialist will be part of a global team of platform engineers with a specialty in Windows and Virtualization services. This team demonstrates superb technical competency as it interacts with a broad array of internal and external partners to deliver a common, resilient, agile, scalable, and secure platform for applications and services that power the entire firm. The position requires a solid understanding of a wide range of technologies and a focus on prioritizing and driving high value projects to the business. A successful candidate will be a strong engineer with a developer mindset that thrives in a highly diverse environment.
In-scope technologies include, but are not limited to:
- Active Directory Services (AD, DNS, FSMO, Schema, Sites, GPO, etc.)
- Windows Servers and Services (2012-R2..2019)
- VMware vSphere Infrastructure, including Hypervisors
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure based on VMWare Horizon View.
- Messaging and Collaboration tools under Microsoft O365
Responsibilities:
- Maintain responsibility for Active Directory and all related services.
- Design, build, and manage all Windows systems and infrastructure services on-premises or in a cloud environment.
- Optimize, manage, and monitor Squarepoint’s global virtualization stack, including VMware vSphere.
- Design, build, and manage all VDI-related systems and infrastructure services on-premises or in a cloud environment.
- Implement complex PowerShell-based workflows to promote automation, data analytics, and self-healing.
- Configure, support, and benchmark operating systems and cloud images.
- Develop policies, roadmaps, standards, and procedures for all peer and downstream teams.
- Hardware and Lifecycle management
- Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity planning and design
- Collaborate with internal and external teams, stakeholders and management on the development of technology solutions.
- Perform related duties & responsibilities as requested.
Preferred Qualifications
- MCSE: Core Infrastructure or related experience
- MCSE: Productivity or related experience
- VMware VCP in Desktop Mobility Deploy or VCAP Certification in Desktop Mobility Design
- Experience managing o365 Tenants and Services
- Experience building, optimizing, and scaling complex Horizon View-based VDI solutions in a real-time trading VDI environment.
- Experience designing Ansible playbooks and workflows
- Python scripting experience
- Unix/Linux experience
- Degree in engineering or a relevant discipline.
- Experience with metrics collection using Prometheus
- SAN Storage Administration
Top Skills
What We Do
Squarepoint Capital is a leading global investment management firm that develops quantitative investment strategies to achieve high quality returns for our clients. We are a data and technology driven firm who specialize in developing automated trading systems that execute across global financial markets.
