Systems Engineer

Archer IT is a NYC based recruiting firm and trusted adviser to leading companies in the financial services and technology industries. Our client has a current opening for a Systems Engineer in New Jersey.

Do you have a strong Windows Server Administration and Active Directory background with experience delivering strategic UNIX AD Integration projects within the UNIX Directory space? Are you able to support and manage infrastructure security projects effectively? Our client is looking for someone like you to help:

• Develop, document, and enforce the standards, security procedures, and controls for access to ensure integrity of the UNIX platform and ecosystems, and related entitlement systems.
• Interface with internal security and risk functions to ensure adherence to security policies and procedures.
• Gain stakeholder buy-in and support for technology roadmaps and strategies.
• Evolve design and architecture processes within Information Services
• Produce enterprise-level designs for key initiatives and following those through to implementation through collaboration with project, engineering and support teams
• Identify opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance service delivery everywhere possible
• Assume more responsibility, including deep troubleshooting technical skills and translating the results into understandable issue descriptions, root cause analysis results, remediation actions, etc.
• Support the business IT system migration to the new UNIX ecosystem through the application migration and new entitlement onboarding
• Assist in user acceptance testing, quality control and general project delivery

Your team:
You'll be working in Security Engineering organization supporting the UNIX Directory team. The team is tasked with delivering the next generation UNIX security ecosystem utilizing Active Directory. Your role will be to design and engineer the new UNIX ecosystem with the capability to expand into the public cloud like Azure. 
 

Your expertise:

• 5+ years experience in IT engineering roles in Windows servers and proxy products supporting various network connection protocols like RDP, SSH, RADIUS, and HTTP. 
• Experience in UNIX LDAP directory, Active Directory and Kerberos. 
• Experience with infrastructure access and authentication in a large UNIX and Windows environment
• Knowledgeable in Azure or AWS tenant hosting environment and access control model
• Experience with Centrify products is required
• Deep understanding of Role-based Access Control model (RBAC) in the application and infrastructure access settings
• Broad knowledge in Identity and Access / Entitlement Management concepts and technologies 
• Knowledge in infrastructure and distributed platform architecture, application infrastructure and standards, OS (e.g. Solaris, RedHat Linux, Windows), clustering, hardware architecture, virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware, HyperV)
• Strong knowledge in global networking topology, zoning concepts and LAN/WAN/firewall/VPN/load balancing network technologies

You are:

• Comfortable communicating effectively across a matrixed organization including Infrastructure, Security, and Business IT teams. 
• Capable of working independently, handling multiple tasks and projects and adapting to a constantly changing environment
• Able to take over end to end responsibility for the work delivered by you and your team
• Proactive, comfortable working in dynamic environments with fast-paced deliveries and changing requirements

This is a contract position.