Job Description
Job Title – Senior IT Engineer
Locations: Lichfield | Hybrid
Get To Know Us:
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The Technical Infrastructure team supports and evolves the hybrid technology platforms that underpin the SS&C Hubwise wealth platform. We operate across private data centres and AWS, delivering secure, resilient, and highly available services. The team works closely with internal stakeholders and third-party providers to ensure our infrastructure continues to meet business and regulatory needs.
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SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few.
Why You Will Love It Here!
* Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
* Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
* Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
* Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
* Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
* Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career
What You Will Get To Do:
* Maintain, support, and enhance a hybrid infrastructure environment spanning private data centres and AWS.
* Design, configure, and administer AWS services including VPCs, EC2, load balancers, IAM, security groups, and monitoring.
* Support and manage Linux and Windows Server environments, including web and application services.
* Administer and troubleshoot enterprise networking including routing, switching, DNS, DHCP, VPN, Wi-Fi, and firewall platforms.
* Act as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure, network, and cloud incidents.
* Work with managed service providers and vendors to ensure infrastructure services meet performance, availability, and security requirements.
* Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness to support 24/7 global operations.
* Contribute to infrastructure projects including upgrades, migrations, capacity planning, and new service deployments.
* Apply cloud automation and deployment approaches to infrastructure and compute services, supporting scalable and repeatable environments.
* Document systems, processes, and changes, contributing to operational knowledge and continuous improvement.
What You Will Bring:
* 5+ years’ experience in a senior IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or similar role.
* Strong hands-on experience supporting hybrid environments across AWS and private infrastructure.
* Proven experience configuring and administering AWS services such as VPC, EC2, load balancers, IAM, and security controls.
* Awareness of cloud automation and deployment strategies, including infrastructure-as-code or automated provisioning and build/deploy tooling.
* Strong Linux and Windows Server administration skills.
* Solid networking fundamentals and experience with enterprise firewalls (e.g. Fortinet or equivalent).
* Excellent troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across systems, networks, and cloud services.
* Experience working with third-party providers and managed data centre environments.
* Ability to work independently, take ownership of complex issues, and drive solutions through to completion.
* Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented approach.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.