Senior Systems Administrator/Engineer - Technology - Rockville, MD - Contractor Conversion
Rockville, MD

Job Description

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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is seeking a well-qualified individual for our Senior Systems Admin/Engineer opening in Rockville, MD. To be considered for this position, please submit your resume through our career site at www.finra.org/careers - no phone calls, please.

Job Summary:

The Senior Systems Administrator/Engineer works under minimal supervision and will perform manual activities as well as automated activities commensurate with their experience that ensure FINRA data centers meet defined quality standards.

Essential Job Functions:

* Review and analyze process and system specifications to ensure delivery requirements are met.
* Designs, implements, customizes, maintains and administers operating systems and system software products.
* Recommends enhancements and updates/patches to operating systems, system software products and hardware.
* Ensure the Company's Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) metrics are sustained and improved.
* Implements and updates monitoring tools.
* Monitors operating system performance to achieve optimum performance levels.
* Recommends new monitoring approaches and tools. Develop and present related documentation, presentations, and discussion.
* Document test plans, as well as, create / revise and execute scripts.
* Test and analyze equipment and infrastructure setup.
* Oversees implementation of security guidelines in order to prevent unauthorized access to servers and report any violations.
* Perform field level hardware repairs and upgrades.
* Interface with other team members and other teams to ensure technology solution and staff are in line with customer expectations and overall technology vision and goals.
* Document and communicate status in a timely manner including metric reporting.
* Champion the collaborative resolution of defects. Work across organization to deliver solutions that meet joint requirements.
* Lead/Co-lead internal process improvement initiatives. Provide feedback on processes by offering suggestions.
* Evaluates industry trends, standards and new technologies to recommend change.
* Mentor and supervise junior staff in project-level tasks.
* Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls.
* Ensure all work products meets /exceeds FINRA standards.
* Participate in periodic Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) testing and reporting.
* Manage vendor relationships and related budget

Education/Experience Requirements:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least five (5) years of related experience, or equivalent training and / or work experience.
* Past senior level systems administrator experience in a production data center environment.
* Knowledge of industry leading monitoring and diagnostic tools
* Knowledge of at least one operating system and at least one contemporary scripting language.
* Knowledge of communication and network technologies.
* Exposure to common operational practices like metrics reporting, change management, incident management, problem management and communication ITIL & ISO:9000 framework experience/certification preferred.
* Strong written and verbal technical communication skills.
* Demonstrated ability to develop effective working relationships that improved the quality of work products.
* Should be well organized, thorough, and able to handle competing priorities.
* Ability to maintain focus and develop proficiency in new skills rapidly.
* Ability to work in a fast paced environment.

Work Conditions:

* Work is normally performed in an office environment or in a datacenter.
* Occasional lifting may be required.
* Occasional travel and extended hours may be required.
* On-call duties (on a rotational basis) may be required.

The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required.

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FINRA strives to make our career site accessible to all users. If you need a disability-related accommodation for completing the application process, please contact FINRA's accommodation help line at 240.386.4865. Please note that this number is exclusively for inquiries regarding application accommodations.

In addition to a competitive salary, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, and incentive compensation, FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match. You will also be eligible for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, our tuition reimbursement program and many other benefits. If you would like to contribute to our important mission and work collegially in a professional organization that values intelligence, integrity and initiative, consider a career with FINRA.

Important Information

FINRA's Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees' investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Code's investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions-including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA's Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President-by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA's Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company's policy on nepotism.

About FINRA

FINRA is an independent, non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business with the public in the United States. FINRA works to protect investors and maintain market integrity in a public-private partnership with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), while also benefiting from the SEC's oversight. In its role as investor guardian, FINRA is informed, but not influenced, by the industry that it regulates. FINRA's independent regulation plays a critical role in America's financial system-all at no cost to taxpayers.

FINRA touches virtually every aspect of the securities business-from registering and educating industry participants to examining securities firms; writing rules; enforcing those rules and the federal securities laws; informing and educating the investing public; providing trade reporting and other industry utilities; and administering the largest dispute resolution forum for investors and registered firms. FINRA uses technology powerful enough to look across markets and detect potential abuses. Using a variety of data gathering techniques, we work to detect insider trading and any strategies firms or individuals use to gain an unfair advantage.

In today's fast-paced and complex global economy, FINRA is a trusted advocate for investors, dedicated to keeping the markets fair and proactively addressing emerging regulatory issues before they harm investors or the markets. FINRA operates from Washington, DC, and New York, NY, with other offices around the country.

Find out more about us and how we work-and view our current openings-at www.finra.org/careers.

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FINRA is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal state or local laws as appropriate, or upon the protected status of the person's relatives, friends or associates.

FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-741.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of disability, and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities.

FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified protected veterans, and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.

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