Senior PeopleSoft Administrator - Enterprise Application Systems

Bloomberg•New York, NY

6h•$155,000 - $175,000

About The Position

The Bloomberg Enterprise Application Systems team within the Bloomberg Engineering Department administers, engineers and operates enterprise applications that support internal business functions. The team manages primarily third-party applications in on-premise and cloud environments, supporting areas such as Accounting, Supply Chain and Workplace Operations. It works with application development, database, operating system, networking, security and infrastructure teams to deliver secure, highly available enterprise services. As a Systems Engineer on the team, you will take technical ownership of enterprise application platforms throughout their lifecycle. You will administer Bloomberg’s PeopleSoft environment supporting North American Payroll, including installation and configuration, upgrades, patching, environment management, monitoring, troubleshooting, security, integrations and production support. PeopleSoft will account for approximately half of the role; you will also cross-train and take ownership of other third-party applications on-premise and in the cloud. You will help design, implement and maintain resilient systems, including redundancy, backup and recovery, disaster recovery capabilities and operational procedures. You will identify potential failure points and improve system recoverability. You will also assess vendor and internal security advisories, remediate vulnerabilities, and manage application security components such as authentication, access controls, certificates, secrets, network connectivity and secure integrations. As the portfolio changes, you will develop expertise in new platforms and apply sound administration, security, integration, automation, monitoring, resilience and lifecycle-management practices.

Requirements

Strong hands-on experience administering PeopleSoft and PeopleTools environments.
Experience administering PeopleSoft infrastructure, including WebLogic, Tuxedo, Application Server, Process Scheduler and Integration Broker.
Experience independently managing enterprise application platforms, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, monitoring and production support.
Experience identifying and remediating software vulnerabilities, evaluating vendor security advisories, and applying patches or other mitigations in a timely manner.
Experience designing and operating highly available and resilient application environments.
Understanding of redundancy, backup and recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity concepts.
Strong troubleshooting skills across application, operating system, database, network and integration layers.
Working knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems, relational databases, networking and application infrastructure.
Experience supporting integrations using technologies such as REST APIs, SFTP, S3 and other file-based interfaces.
Understanding of enterprise application security, including authentication, certificates, secrets and secure connectivity.
Experience developing scripts or automation for application administration, monitoring, maintenance and operational activities.
Ability and interest to learn new technologies and take ownership of systems beyond PeopleSoft.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work effectively across application, infrastructure and security teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience with PeopleSoft lifecycle and change-management tools such as PUM, Change Assistant and Phire.
Experience administering multiple third-party enterprise application platforms.
Experience supporting applications across on-premise and cloud environments.
Experience with public cloud or SaaS enterprise application platforms.
Experience with Python, PowerShell, shell scripting or other automation technologies.
Experience with enterprise monitoring, observability, secrets management or identity and access management technologies.
Experience designing or testing disaster recovery and high-availability architectures.
Experience working with software vendors on upgrades, security issues, technical support and product lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

Own administration of the PeopleSoft environment supporting North American Payroll.
Install and configure PeopleSoft platforms and manage upgrades, patching, environments, monitoring, troubleshooting, security, integrations and production support.
Take technical ownership of enterprise application platforms throughout their lifecycle, including additional third-party applications on-premise and in the cloud.
Design, implement and maintain highly available and resilient application environments, including redundancy, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Identify potential points of failure, improve recoverability, and maintain operational procedures for continuity through infrastructure and application failures.
Monitor vendor and internal security advisories, assess software vulnerabilities, and implement patches, upgrades or other remediations promptly.
Manage application security components, including authentication, access controls, certificates, secrets, network connectivity and secure integrations.
Develop expertise in new platforms and apply administration, security, integration, automation, monitoring, resilience and lifecycle-management practices.
Cross-train with other members of the team and collaborate with application, infrastructure and security teams.