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Cohen & Steers · 6 hours ago

Associate Director, Senior Systems Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$155K/yr - $165K/yr

7+ years exp

Cohen & Steers is committed to an inclusive culture, valuing diversity in support of our people and clients. The ideal candidate will be part of the Infrastructure team responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and performance of all global systems, ensuring availability, security, and consistency for Windows and Citrix environments.

Finance

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Maintain operational excellence by keeping environment secure and up to date

Responsible for project tasks throughout the life cycle of application implementation following best practices and architectural guidelines

Provide support to back-office applications such as trading platforms, fund accounting systems, financial accounting systems

Responsible for various network hardware/software, with a focus on Citrix and Windows environments, including both configuration design & implementation on customer-facing solutions

Responsible for updating and maintaining all documentation requested by management and will be tasked with improving such documentation as required

Provide trouble shooting and assisting help desk support group in resolving escalated issues

Monitor and provide statistical reports on the health and operational status of all infrastructure systems; monitor system capacity utilization

Aid in capacity planning and performance monitoring to ensure that Infrastructure systems are meeting the needs of the business

Assist with various day to day management of server environment

Qualification

Citrix technologiesWindows ServersActive DirectoryPowerShell scriptingInfrastructure securityCloud data centersCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsOrganizational skills

Required

Requires a minimum of 7 years of experience working within an IT infrastructure group, preferably with Financial experience in a trading environment

Ability to work under pressure, managing multiple tasks with accuracy and to meet demanding deadlines, possessing strong ethics and the ability to maintain confidentiality

Advanced experience in Citrix technologies – Delivery Controller, PVS, StoreFront, Netscaler / VPX configuration deployments

Experience with Citrix Cloud a big plus

Experience with Profile management tools such as FSLogix

Able to implement and engineer solutions spread across on prem and cloud data centers

Working knowledge of SCCM or similar platform used to keep systems up to date and package deployments

Extensive experience planning, designing, deploying, and maintaining Windows Servers, including Microsoft applications, such as SQL, Exchange, and Active Directory

Expertise in Active Directory – troubleshooting, setting up replication and new domains, creating and consolidating GPOs, ACLs

Well-rounded knowledge of Office 365, Azure-AD and related Microsoft services

Experience with managing and maintaining MS security services such as ATP and Intune a big plus

Experience with vulnerability scan platforms and remediation, such as Rapid 7

Understanding of infrastructure security and authentication processes. SAML, Kerberos, RADIUS & MFA

Experience with privileged access management and privileged identity management

Day to Day management of monitoring platform and tailoring advance alerting & reports

Experience in PowerShell scripting and working with code repositories and CI/CD pipelines

Root Cause analysis and troubleshooting experience is required

Familiar with building and maintaining task scheduling platforms

Must be willing to work weekends and evenings and be on call as required; the responsibilities are for a 7x24 IT operation

Must maintain a sincere, polite, and respectful customer service attitude when working with the business

Ability to support multiple globally dispersed locations

Excellent communication, organization, and interpersonal skills

Demonstrates inclusive behaviors in support of a culture that values diverse perspectives

Is able to abide by the firm's hybrid work arrangement policy in New York City office (4 days in-office/1 day remote)

Preferred

PowerShell and Azure DevOps toolset, CI/CD

Working knowledge of monitoring & Syslog platforms, such as LogicMonitor and SumoLogic

Knowledge in Cisco UCS, VMWare and SAN technologies (FC / iSCSI)

Supporting backup technologies such as Commvault and Rubrik

Familiar with PagerDuty

Certification a plus

PKI / MS CA experience

Company

Cohen & Steers

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Cohen & Steers is a global investment manager specializing in liquid real assets, including real estate securities, listed infrastructure, and natural resource equities, as well as preferred securities and other income solutions.

Founded in 1986

New York, New York, USA

201-500 employees