Senior Systems Administrator/Engineer – Identity and Infrastructure

FINRA • Rockville, MD

6d • $97,700 - $211,400 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Systems Administrator/Engineer – Identity and Infrastructure designs, automates, secures, and supports enterprise identity and hybrid infrastructure services across Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments. The role provides senior-level expertise in Active Directory, Entra ID, Windows Server, application integrations, and cloud infrastructure while driving reliability, modernization, and operational excellence.

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.

Nice To Haves

• ITIL & ISO:9000 framework experience/certification 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.
• Create and maintain technical designs, implementation and test plans, scripts, runbooks, recovery procedures, architecture diagrams, and operational documentation.
• Participate in change, incident, and problem management; Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity Planning (BCP), and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing and reporting; audit support; compliance activities; and continuous service improvement.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and platform capabilities, recommend improvements, and lead technical workstreams that advance reliability, security, automation, and modernization.
• Collaborate with other technical staff, share operational knowledge, and promote consistent engineering and support practices across the team.
• Demonstration of FINRA’s values.
• Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Overtime pay
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Basic life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Supplemental life insurance
• Spouse/domestic partner and dependent life insurance
• Spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Long-term care insurance
• Business travel accident insurance
• Legal insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• FINRA-funded retirement contribution
• Tuition reimbursement
• Commuter benefits
• Adoption assistance
• Backup family care
• Surrogacy benefits
• Employee assistance program
• Wellness programs
• 15 days of paid time off (increasing with years of service, up to 25 days)
• 5 personal days
• 9 sick days
• Two volunteer service days
• Military leave
• Jury duty leave
• Bereavement leave
• Voting and election official leave
• Care of a family member leave
• Childbirth and parental leave
• Nine paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior