PA2025Q4JB036 Senior IT Engineer - Infrastructure

Ss&c Technologies, Inc.; Lichfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services technology company in the UK is seeking a senior IT infrastructure professional to maintain and enhance their hybrid environment. The role includes supporting AWS services, managing Linux and Windows servers, and ensuring security across enterprise networking. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of relevant experience and strong troubleshooting skills. This position offers a competitive holiday scheme and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Professional Development Reimbursement

Competitive holiday scheme

Wellbeing benefits

Diversity & Inclusion commitment

Hands-On Training

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in IT infrastructure or systems engineering.
• Strong experience with AWS and hybrid environments.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills across systems, networks, and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance a hybrid infrastructure environment.
• Configure and administer AWS services and networks.
• Act as a senior escalation point for cloud incidents.

Skills

AWS services configuration

Linux administration

Windows Server administration

Networking fundamentals

Troubleshooting skills

Job description

About the Company

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.

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.

Benefits

• 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

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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.

Next Steps

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 @ www.ssctech.com/careers. Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee‑based recruitment services.