Role: Application Administration

Location: St Louis, Missouri Onsite

Type: Full Time

Responsibilities

• Ensure the availability of large complex systems used by the home office areas of Compliance, Legal and Internal Audit to help meet their business objectives
• Responsible for hands-on configuration, administration, and technical support for cloud-based and on-prem solutions
• Develop 3rd party integration patterns
• Maintain and update skillset aligned with industry trends in technologies and methods of delivering a future-focused environment.
• Provide support for complex software installation and maintenance, including major upgrades, with no disruptions to day-to-day operations
• Provide technical leadership, advice, and mentoring to peers, application developers, infrastructure and business users.
• Research emerging technologies and trends to understand how they might be used to improve or streamline existing processes
• Support patching efforts - MS Security and Oracle
• Provide updates to server monitoring tasks
• Create new or update existing communication policies
• Monitor email crawl and batch ingestion processes, examine archive activity, monitor disk space and add generic email accounts
• Ensure security compliance through quarterly password changes and certificate renewals for Active Directory, SQL Server and Oracle IDs
• Understanding of and commitment to protecting the integrity, security and privacy of the firm's critical business data.
• Provide after-hours and weekend support and participate in on-call rotation (24X7).

Technical skillsets:

• 5 years in Application administration, preferably in a large-scale production environment for Cloud and on-prem solutions
• Familiarity with Agile methodology.
• Knowledge of server hardware, operating systems, storage, load balancers and network technologies
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with the following operating systems: MS Windows and/or Linux
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with using database scripting language - SQL
• Minimum of 5 years of experience programming/scripting with one or more of the following: Perl, PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues in business terms
• Ability to mentor team members
• Ability to troubleshoot, reproduce and solve challenging issues for large scale applications
• Ability to work independently and with a cross-functional team.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to make or review decisions on problems with high visibility and high risk to firm
• 3rd party application (financial) related config support, monitor and manage
• Linux or Windows, Powershell or Bash or Python or any scripting