Senior IT Engineer Infrastructure

SS&C; Lichfield; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services and healthcare technology firm in Lichfield is seeking a Senior IT Engineer to enhance and support hybrid infrastructure environments, primarily using AWS and private data centers. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in IT infrastructure systems engineering, strong skills in AWS and server administration, and excellent troubleshooting abilities. The company promotes a diverse workforce and offers flexible hybrid work arrangements and robust professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model

Professional Development Reimbursement

Competitive benefits

Diversity & Inclusion Programs

Customized Training

Qualifications

• 5 years experience in a senior IT infrastructure role.
• Strong experience supporting hybrid environments.
• Proven AWS service configuration and administration.
• Strong Linux and Windows Server skills.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance hybrid infrastructure.
• Design and administer AWS services.
• Support Linux and Windows Server environments.
• Administer enterprise networking platforms.
• Lead complex infrastructure incidents.
• Collaborate with service providers for performance.
• Implement monitoring for global operations.
• Contribute to infrastructure projects.
• Apply automation for scalable environments.
• Document systems and processes.

Skills

Hybrid environment support

AWS services administration

Linux server administration

Windows server administration

Networking fundamentals

Troubleshooting skills

Third-party provider collaboration

Cloud automation

Tools

AWS

Linux

Fortinet

Job description

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue SS&C is headquartered in Windsor Connecticut and has 27000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20000 financial services and healthcare organizations from the worlds largest companies to small and mid-market firms rely on SS&C for expertise scale and technology.

Job Description

Job Title: Senior IT Engineer

Locations: Lichfield Hybrid

Get To Know Us

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.

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrows 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
• 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. Its important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable to further explore this opportunity please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website. SS&C Technologies Inc. or any of its affiliated companies will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters recruitment agencies or fee‑based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.

Required Experience:

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