Company Overview:
EdgeCo Holdings is comprised of several affiliated companies focused on providing a broad array of sophisticated financial products, technology, and support services in the areas of full-service retirement plan administration, brokerage services, and trust & custody solutions. EdgeCo provides these services through numerous subsidiary entities including American Trust, Mid Atlantic Trust Company, NewEdge Capital Group and PensionPro Software.
Job Summary:
The Azure Cloud Engineer with EdgeCo Holdings is responsible for administering and supporting the enterprise systems and network infrastructure, maintaining the functionality, security/patching, and uptime of critical technology systems such as file and print servers, storage infrastructure, application servers, and client/vendor connectivity.
This position is a hybrid role for candidates in Pittsburgh, PA. Full-time remote candidates will also be considered.
Duties/Responsibilities:
System administration experience of provisioning and managing resources on a Cloud Service Provider such as AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
Deploying Databases
System Patching
Managing internal, and external network connectivity
Support infrastructure as a code.
Implement and support regulatory compliance, policies and procedures related to IT operations and security.
Regularly improve the security posture of enterprise systems and network infrastructure.
Support peers on other projects and tasks while balancing regular duties.
Record and respond to technical incidents and requests using the Service Desk ticketing system while adhering to performance goals.
Assist with new technology investigations, coordinating implementations and support of new enterprise applications and technologies entering the infrastructure, writing and updating service and procedural documentation, proposing and implementing process improvements, and working collaboratively with peers and support teams.
Implement and support existing and new applications and technologies entering the infrastructure.
Resolve technical issues within defined SLAs and document root cause and resolution.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of overall backup and recovery strategy (Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity).
Where possible:
Support cloud solutions and implementations.
Research and analyze requirements then determine best applicable PaaS solutions.
Compose Blueprints, Policies, and Governance for the enterprise.
Document cloud architecture, policies, and procedures.
Help setup initial infrastructure and maintain existing solutions.
Review existing solutions for cost and performance.
Ensure security and compliance within cloud solutions.
Skills/Abilities:
BS degree in the field of Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field and/or 5+ years equivalent work experience
5+ years managing Information Technology, cloud network support
5+ years in a professional environment
Experience with Containers, and Container Orchestration for example Kubernetes, Docker or similar container service.
Experience with a variety of DevOps tools including Azure DevOps Pipelines (or any CICD Pipelines in general), Jenkins, and SonarQube (from Sonar Source).
Experience and understanding of infrastructure as code.
Experience with Azure DevOps Git as code source control.
Proven experience in the implementation and maintenance of hardware solutions.
System Administration experience with Windows desktop and Windows Servers.
Experience managing Active Directory, OUs, Group Policies, Windows Server Update Services.
Good understanding of user environment management, including desktops/laptops, profile management, software delivery, etc.
Good people skills and the ability to interact and communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.
Proactive in understanding and staying up to date on the current projects in progress, projects in pipeline and operational issues. Similarly, with industry technology trends and applicability of software/hardware solutions.
Administration experience with Microsoft web applications and technologies – IIS 7.0.
Experience with supporting a Microsoft SQL Server database infrastructure.
Strong hands-on/technical knowledge of core Microsoft technologies including but not limited to Windows Servers, Active Directory, MS SQL is required.
Experience as an Azure Administrator or equivalent role.
Experience with SCRUM/Agile development methodologies.
Ability to keep up to date with cloud offerings and solutions.
Benefits:
Compensation will be comprised of a base salary and opportunity to qualify for a quarterly performance-based bonus program. EdgeCo Holdings benefit package includes health, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, PTO and 401(k) match (after applicable waiting periods).