Senior Identity & Hybrid Cloud Systems Engineer

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; Rockville (MD); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Commuter benefits

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

FINRA seeks a Senior Systems Administrator/Engineer to design, automate, and support enterprise identity and hybrid infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments. You will engineer Active Directory, Entra ID, Windows Server, and cloud integrations, while modernizing and securing applications, services, and automation tools.

You will lead incident response, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration with architecture, cybersecurity, and cloud engineering to deliver reliable,

Qualifications

• 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.
• Exposure to ITIL & ISO:9000 framework preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and modernize enterprise identity and hybrid infrastructure services across Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments.
• Engineer and support Active Directory, Entra ID, Windows Server, domain controllers, DNS, identity federation, enterprise applications, app registrations, service principals, certificates, and access controls.
• Design and support secure application integrations using standards-based authentication, including SAML and OIDC, and troubleshoot complex authentication, claims, group-assignment, and access issues.
• Support the migration, operation, and lifecycle management of identity and Windows infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments.
• Engineer, administer, secure, and support Google Workspace and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, including identity integration, user and group administration, application access, monitoring, automation, and cloud-service configuration.
• Develop and maintain PowerShell and platform automation for application onboarding, identity administration, monitoring, reconciliation, configuration management, and operational support.
• Establish and improve monitoring, health checks, alerting, operational metrics, and recovery procedures using Splunk and cloud-native monitoring capabilities.
• Manage security-sensitive dependencies, including service accounts, privileged access, secrets, certificates, password rotations, and application ownership.
• Provide engineering and operational support for enterprise platforms and services, including Global Relay, Nasuni, Microsoft 365 integrations, and other identity-enabled systems.
• Lead complex troubleshooting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and service-restoration efforts across identity, cloud, server, storage, and application-integration technologies.
• Partner with architecture, cybersecurity, networking, cloud engineering, application teams, and vendors to deliver secure, resilient, compliant, and supportable solutions.

Skills

Active Directory

Entra ID

Windows Server

Azure

AWS

Google Workspace

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Splunk

PowerShell

Microsoft 365

GCP

Azure

AWS

Job description

FINRA seeks a Senior Systems Administrator/Engineer to design, automate, and support enterprise identity and hybrid infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments. You will engineer Active Directory, Entra ID, Windows Server, and cloud integrations, while modernizing and securing applications, services, and automation tools.

You will lead incident response, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration with architecture, cybersecurity, and cloud engineering to deliver reliable,