Senior Windows Server Administrator - High Frequency Trading

**Welcome to the Societe Generale Careers website.**Senior Windows Server Administrator - High Frequency TradingPermanent contract| New York| IT (Information Technology) **Senior Windows Server Administrator - High Frequency Trading**New York, United States Permanent contract IT (Information Technology) ** Responsibilities**Within the system administration team, you will onboard the Level 3 windows server support team. Dedicated to a feature team you will be responsible for supporting our Electronic market making activities and delivering their projects. You will be overseeing a scope of about 800 servers. You will be required to deal with configuration management and demonstrate industrialization skills to ensure operational stability of the scope.**Main Responsibilities*** Work integrated in an agile organized team to deliver support and projects on our Electronic market making servers* Follow up on Clients requests and incidents. Work with them as a business partner in total transparency* Propose innovative and industrial solutions to automatize your repetitive tasks and improve teams efficiency* Participate in the common automation effort by collaborating actively with the various feature teams* Manage the activity based on ITIL Framework (Change management, Incident/Request management)* Onboard the teams routine and participate in overtime operations. Most of the electronic market making maintenance must be done outside of business hours.* Partner with the Windows Server chapter team to ensure compliance of your servers, as well as making sure the support team can handle them when you are busy or away.* Work with the Global electronic market making support team to align to the standards and contribute with your expertise.**Areas of development*** Get familiar with our High frequency trading configurations and specific* Work on cutting edge technologies and bring your expertise to improve our environment and performances* Scrum Method is at the heart of our teams organization, get onboarded and learn about it.* Get involved with API development for the automation of our IT operations. PowerShell is required, Python is a plus* Collaborate in the development of the electronic market making business together with the feature team. Bring your point of view on the features and products.* Work on a 3500+ server scope (which includes the 800 mentioned). Work in an international group.**Experience Needed*** Knowledge on Windows systems performance tuning* Knowledge on High performance best practices* Management of Windows servers and Microsoft administrative solutions* Strong PowerShell Scripting**Required Technologies*** PowerShell / Python* System performance tuning* Kernel bypass drivers ( MCore )* Microsoft solutions+ SCCM+ WinRM+ Active Directory* Relevant network knowledge**Knowledgeable on*** Automation Techologies : APIs, Orchestrators* HP / DELL x86 Hardware* Symantec Antivirus* Symantec Netbackup**Desired / Plus*** Agile method: Kanban or/and Scrum* Curiosity, thinking out of the box, challenging mindset**Functional Expertise*** Ability to work with a team and in an agile environment.* Ability to fulfill clients request and challenge the established processes* Ability to use agile team resources to deliver the project as quickly as possible**BUSINESS INSIGHT**Global Technical Services (GTS) is the infrastructure organization supporting all entities in the Americas for all infrastructure technology requirements including:* Workstations including computers, telephones and email* Data centers hosting* Networks/telecommunications* End user computing services* Market Data administration infrastructure* Disaster Recovery PlanningGTS various fields of expertise enable the organization to:* Be a major player in the Group's Digital Transition* Ensure the 24/7 quality and continuity of our infrastructures and their resilience to incidents* Advise/accompany business lines and functional divisions through their own transformation* Provide diversified/innovative service offer that is customized to the requirements of our internal/external partners