Senior Systems Engineer - Microsoft
DRWAbout the Role
DRW is a diversified trading firm seeking a Senior Systems Engineer - Microsoft to help administer and support its Microsoft infrastructure across a global support team.
- Administer core Microsoft services: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and Exchange (on-premise, Online, hybrid).
- Deploy, maintain and support Windows Server environments (2016–2025) and Microsoft cloud services including Entra ID, OneDrive, Copilot, and Microsoft 365.
- Configure single sign-on and federation using SAML, OAuth/OIDC, and SCIM.
- Triage and resolve tickets from the operations queue and respond to critical production incidents.
- Implement planned and ad hoc changes per firmwide change management processes, and capture configurations as repeatable runbooks.
- Participate in a global support team with on-call rotation and occasional weekend maintenance.
Requirements
- 5+ years managing Windows Server infrastructure in high visibility, mission critical environments
- Deep expertise in Windows Server services: Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Failover Clustering, load balancers
- Hands on experience with Entra ID, Exchange (Server/Online/Hybrid), MECM (SCCM)
- Proficient with scripting (PowerShell, Python), IAC (e.g. Terraform, Ansible) and version control (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
- Strong networking knowledge and experience with server hardware and hypervisor/VM deployments
- Excellent documentation and knowledge management skills; ability to turn ad hoc tasks into documented, repeatable processes
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve critical issues under pressure (trading/low latency environments a plus)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. You can work across teams and have evidence-based discussions on technical and operational topics
- You are eager to learn, collaborate, and find solutions under interesting constraints
- Experience with Splunk, Grafana, Alertmanager, Prometheus (bonus)
- Familiarity with containerization and Kubernetes (bonus)
- Prior experience in the trading or financial services industry (bonus)
What You'll Get
- $175k–$210k base salary
- group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance
- 401k (with discretionary employer match)
- short and long-term disability
- life and AD&D insurance
- health savings accounts
- flexible spending accounts